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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.

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PLUS activity soars

PLUS Markets has enjoyed a strong opening five months of the year by recording a 44 per cent increase in IPO and fundraising activity on its exchange on the same period in 2007.

Entrepreneurs

The electronic cigarette

They say there’s no smoke without fire, but that was before the electronic cigarette. The SuperSmoker uses a microchip and a harmless liquid made up of food products that, when the user inhales, turns into a virtually odourless vapour that looks just like smoke and provides the hit of nicotine.

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First London
buys Belgravia

International merchant bank First London Securities has acquired Belgravia Financial Services Group, a financial services operations and takeover asset management company based in Jersey. The terms of the agreement remain undisclosed.

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Fund powered up with
AIM cash

A Guernsey-incorporated fund in has raised almost £100 million to invest in India’s power and energy sector after a completing a dual listing.

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Bigpoint in €70 million buy-out

Multiplayer online games developer Bigpoint is set to be acquired by two private equity funds.

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Ophir secures finance to drill

Privately owned African oil and gas exploration company Ophir Energy has secured £168 million from private investors to finance its drilling programmes until 2009.

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NVM exit nets 70% IRR

Newcastle-based venture capitalist NVM has sold its stake in defence logistics company Product Support to European supply chain services group Wincanton.

Entrepreneurs

My best business decision: Sam Sharma

Sam Sharma, CEO of courier company Rico Logistics, took a massive risk when he decided to set up a national delivery network.

News

Helicopter firm lands on PLUS

Having touched down on PLUS, low-cost helicopter designer Pegasus plans to raise up to £2 million to market its home-assembly kits.

News

UK family firms under threat

The proportion of UK family businesses taken over by third parties is more than double that of Germany, France and Italy, according to new figures.

Growth Planning

British business in Brazil

Brazil is the world’s fifth most populous country, with a growing middle class, a stable government and world-class companies looking for foreign partners. We meet British entrepreneurs operating in Latin America’s largest economy.

PR and Marketing Strategy

Web analytics: why bother?

Internet marketing is big business – search spending alone is expected to more than double to $18.5 billion (£9.25 billion) by 2012, according to Jupiter Research, and that’s just the money businesses are feeding into search engines to get prospects to glance at their sites.