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Oracle taps PLUS

Pakistan coal venture Oracle Coalfields is seeking £1.2 million on the reinvigorated PLUS. Entrepreneurs Shahrukh Khan, 35, and Conrad Windham, 23, have launched their 5p-a-share offer, with backing from small company investor Bruce Rowan and St Helen’s Capital as adviser.

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CGC supports £32 million MBO

Close Growth Capital (CGC), a provider of equity and debt funding, has backed the £32 million secondary management buy–out (MBO) of A-Gas International, a global distributor of speciality gases and chemicals to the refrigeration and insulation foam industries.

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Ingenious backs Prodigy

Ingenious has invested £2 million through its two music VCTs to support the next album of the dance act Prodigy.

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CBI chief praises private equity model

Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry Richard Lambert has praised private equity houses, saying they offer a compelling model to improve business performance which has seen companies return to the stock markets in far more robust shape than when they were previously listed.

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DataLase to target US market

Laser technology developer DataLase has secured funding worth £4.9 million. It was backed by BASF Venture Capital, which supplied £1 million, plus MTI Partners and Hotbed.

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Second acquisition for Casper

Casper, a provider of products and services to SMEs, has made its second acquisition since it was established in June after it bought King UK, a distributor of non-food products to the licensed trade and catering sector.

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Alfred McAlpine buys Enviros

Support services group Alfred McAlpine has expanded its offering after it bought environmental consultancy Enviros.

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Child’s play for The Capital Fund

Kids Planet, a family activity centre operator, has secured £250,000 from The Capital Fund.

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Alfred McAlpine buys Enviros

Support services group Alfred McAlpine has expanded its offering after it bought environmental consultancy Enviros.

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Child’s play for The Capital Fund

Kids Planet, a family activity centre operator, has secured £250,000 from The Capital Fund.

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Care UK acquires Access Homecare

A national provider of domiciliary and care home services has strengthened its business in the North West after it bought an Ashton-under-Lyne firm.

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Ingenious invests in CTN

Ingenious Media Active Capital (IMAC) has completed an investment of up to £4.15m in Community Television Networks (CTN). The investment is to be formally adopted by the shareholders of CTN at an EGM on 8 March 2007.

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Funding round for OGeS

Ambitious drug developer Oxford Genome Sciences (OGeS) has secured private equity funding of an undisclosed sum from a syndicate of investors. The funding round was led by Catapult Growth Fund and included South East Growth Fund and Oxford Capital Partners.

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UK economic growth has peaked

Finance professionals working for UK businesses believe that the economy may have reached its peak in the current business cycle, research by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has found.

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