Category

News

Ryder Europe acquires Hill Hire

Haulage business Ryder Europe has secured the acquisition of rival company Hill Hire in a deal worth £154 million.

News

News

Know when to exit: Jerry Kennelly

Jerry Kennelly, founder of design agency Tweak.com, reveals that his best business decision was knowing when to exit.

News

Phico Therapeutics completes £1 million fundraising

Cambridge-based Phico Therapeutics has completed a £1 million fundraising round to help develop products that treat E. coli bacteria.

News

BRC’s Luke Mayhew to support large retailers

Luke Mayhew, chairman of the British Retail Consortium, is due to tell the BRC Retail Symposium today that large retailers are the catalysts of high street regeneration.

News

InternetQ makes Asian acquisition

AIM-listed InternetQ, which provides mobile marketing and digital entertainment services, has acquired Singapore-based i-POP Networks PTE.

News

Securing finance to become easier, but in a year

Chief executive and financial officers of mid-market businesses expect securing finance to become easier during the next year with technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) the most bullish sector, a poll finds.

News

Asia and Europe leading in automotive M&A

Disclosed deal value in the global automotive M&A market fell by US$10 billion to $29.4 billion in 2010, as the level of disclosed figures in 2009 helped improve statistics.

News

Old and New: Silicon Roundabout

GrowthBusiness asks Silicon Roundabout businesses whether the recent government exposure is welcome and how the increased notoriety will affect its staunch culture.

News

Asia and Europe leading in automotive M&A

Disclosed deal value in the global automotive M&A market fell by US$10 billion to $29.4 billion in 2010, as the level of disclosed figures in 2009 helped improve statistics.

News

Old and New: Silicon Roundabout

GrowthBusiness asks Silicon Roundabout businesses whether the recent government exposure is welcome and how the increased notoriety will affect its staunch culture.

News

Private equity fitness looks to specialisation

The private equity market has long been a difficult sector to quantify, with its opaqueness and lack of access to data meaning that performance is hard to evaluate.

News

Index Ventures leads seed funding in EDITD

Retail analytics platform EDITD has secured a $1.6 million (£971,834) seed round led by Index Ventures that will help it enter new markets.

News

UK M&A sees international surge

While the value of acquisitions abroad by UK companies rose to a three year high of £18.3 billion in the first quarter of 2011, the upsurge was tapered by the finding that purchases in the UK by UK companies fell to the second lowest value since the third quarter of 1992.

News

AIM admission of Microsaic Systems

Scientific instrument developer Microsaic Systems has been admitted to AIM after raising £4 million through broker Numis.