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Nick was the Managing Editor for growthbusiness.co.uk when it was owned by Vitesse Media, before moving on to become Head of Investment Group and Editor at What Investment and thence to Head of Intermediary Communications at The Association of Investment Companies (AIC).

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Ultimate Products buys Intempo

Mergers & Acquisitions

Breakthrough Deals – The art of dealmaking

Between them they've closed thousands of deals worth billions of pounds.

News

Hays Travel buys Freedom Direct

UK-based Hays Travel has acquired rival travel agency Freedom Direct Holidays for an undisclosed sum. For more deals click here.

Venture Capital Funding

VCTs and EIS: the future

In recent years, venture capital trusts (VCTs) and the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) have been in decline, writes Donald Stewart, a partner at law firm Faegre & Benson.

Opinion

The PLUS side of flotation

PLUS-quoted is more than holding its own in a difficult market struggling to launch growth businesses, writes Jonathan Pearce of Marriot Harrison.

News

Ultimate acquires Intempo

Ultimate Products, an Oldham-based supplier of houseware and electrical goods, has acquired Manchester-based iPod supplier Intempo. The size of the deal was not disclosed. 

News

Avisen buys Infocube

Avisen, a London-based performance management specialist, has acquired rival Eon Enterprise, and Eon’s wholly owned subsidiary Infocube for £585,000. Eon has no trading activity and its sole function is to act as Infocube’s holding company.

News

Walstead closes Wyndeham deal

Walstead Investments has acquired UK print giant Wyndeham Press Group in a deal that brings the print business back into British ownership.

News

Friends Reunited man in Quidco MBI

Michael Murphy, the former chief executive of social website Friends Reunited, has bought into e-commerce site Quidco.

News

M&A deals in Wales

A severe deal slowdown within the region has brought quality deals to the fore albeit slowly, writes Andrew MacLeod.

News

Real Office on shopping spree

Real Office Group, a quoted investment vehicle set up to acquire office fit-out businesses globally, has bought Pacific Interiors, ISIS Projects and a 49 per cent stake in Pacific Middle East (PME) for £48.9 million.

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Safran secures stake

Safran, an international high technology group focused on aerospace propulsion, aircraft equipment and defence security, has acquired an 81 per cent stake in GE Homeland Protection, a major supplier of baggage screening systems to airports, for $580 million