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Beringea backs Eagle Rock buy-out

Beringea, manager of the ProVen VCTs, has backed the management buy-out of independent producer Eagle Rock Group from Hg Capital.

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Blinkx shares surge on first day of dealing

Shares in video search engine Blinkx, which opened their first day of AIM trading at 45p, ended the day up 40 per cent at 63p.

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Modern Water to float on AIM

Water technology developer Modern Water has announced its intention to float on AIM. The company is one of three subsidiaries of IP Group, which seeks to commercialise intellectual property (IP), and is the first of these to enter the public market.

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Sovereign backs purchase of homecare company

Homecare provider Complete Personal Assistance (CPA) has expanded its business following its acquisition of Paediatric Nursing Link (PNL) for £2.2 million.

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American giant acquires Pride Valley Foods

American food group Gruma has acquired Pride Valley Foods for £20 million. The sellers were entrepreneur Hossain Razaei, who owned 85 per cent of the acquired company, and his fellow directors Roger McKechnie and Michael Hughes.

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Paul Fisher leaves First Capital for Advent

Advent Ventures has recruited Paul Fisher, a former associate director at First Capital, to its ICT investment team.

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Star Sportswear in management buy-out

Yorkshire-based Star Sportswear has been bought out by its management.

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Baird builds recruitment portfolio

A recruiter that supplies IT staff to the financial services sector has been bought by its management.

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Star Sportswear in management buy-out

Yorkshire-based Star Sportswear has been bought out by its management.

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Baird builds recruitment portfolio

A recruiter that supplies IT staff to the financial services sector has been bought by its management.

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Empresaria buys Dutch recruiter

Staffing company Empresaria Group has expanded its business into the Netherlands after completing a six-figure acquisition. The Crawley-based company will pay €500,000 (£342,000) for a majority stake in recruitment specialist EAR Holding.

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Promethean backs 4D Telecom buy-out

Social networking company 4D Telecom has been bought by its management.

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Entrepreneur snaps up MS Industrial Services

A northeast-based entrepreneur has bought an industrial cleaning and waste disposal company as part of a plan to build an environmental services group.

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Ingenious launches film distribution fund

Media investment group Ingenious is looking to raise €150 million (£103 million) to launch a fund dedicated to film distribution. The fund’s approach will be to back a distributor’s entire portfolio of films, as well as financing the acquisition of film rights and libraries.