Entrepreneurs
Marc Barber
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Marc was editor of GrowthBusiness from 2006 to 2010. He specialised in writing about entrepreneurs, private equity and venture capital, mid-market M&A, small caps and high-growth businesses.
Your gateway to entrepreneurial success
Marc was editor of GrowthBusiness from 2006 to 2010. He specialised in writing about entrepreneurs, private equity and venture capital, mid-market M&A, small caps and high-growth businesses.
Entrepreneurs
Go-getters like former Apprentice contestants Saira Khan and Tim Campbell are trying to raise aspirations within the ethnically diverse communities they came from.
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Smaller company investment bank Hanson Westhouse is coming onto AIM through the reverse takeover of Jersey-based SovGem.
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The Sustainable Technology Fund (STF), which backs UK-based cleantech ventures, has made its first investment under new management.
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Open Text, an Ontario-based specialist in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), has acquired Toronto-based Vizible Corporation, which focuses on digital media interface services.
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System C Healthcare Plc, a Maidstone-based provider of specialist IT products and services to the healthcare sector, has acquired Kent-based rival Bluestar UK Group for up to £3 million.
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TMX Group, the owner of the Canadian Stock Exchange, has acquired NetThruPut (NTP) from Enbridge and Circuit Technology Limited, a Canadian electronic platform and clearing facility for physical crude oil products, for some C$52.2 million (£29.5 million).
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Warwick Effect Polymers (WEP), a polymer technology company, has raised £1 million from
new and existing investors including Catapult Venture Managers, Mercia Technology Seed Fund and Oxford Technology VCT.
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Northampton-based Associated Engineering Services (AES) has been bought by its management in a deal led by managing director Paul Leeson, James Harman and Phil Mitchell.
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Cambridge-based private equity firm Key Capital Partners (KCP) has invested £3.6 million in the buy-in management buy-out of fashion business Sabotage.
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UK technology companies Snell & Wilcox and Pro-Bel have merged in a £72 million management buy-out led by Snell & Wilcox CEO Simon Derry and FD Peter Fredericks, as well as former Pro-Bel CEO Graham Pitman,
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Preston-based construction company Darbyshire Group has acquired Welsh firm TPT Construction for an undisclosed sum.
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OmPrompt, a messaging connectivity company, has secured £1 million from secondaries venture capital firm Shackleton Ventures. The investment was made from Shackleton Secondaries II Limited Partnership, its second fund.