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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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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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Baronsmead pleased by VCT performance

Baronsmead VCT has seen a quarterly increase in its Net Asset Value to 102.p per ordinary share and 108.3p per C share at 31 December 2006.

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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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Baronsmead pleased by VCT performance

Baronsmead VCT has seen a quarterly increase in its Net Asset Value to 102.p per ordinary share and 108.3p per C share at 31 December 2006.

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Sensible investing by smaller equity firms

While concern mounts that larger private equity houses are over leveraged, it seems that funding for companies at the smaller end of the scale is in good health.

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Advent gives SEP acquisition boost

Speciality European Pharma (SEP) has secured €15 million (£10 million) from Advent Venture Partners.

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Endless expects D&H to shine

A luxury lighting company that includes royalty and governments among its clients has bought two companies - its first acquisitions since it started trading some 120 years ago. Dernier & Hamlyn (D&H) targeted Tindle Lighting and Reid Lighting to expand its range of products and services.

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Travis Perkins buys Passmore

Builders merchant Travis Perkins has added five new sites to its business after buying Passmore Drywall & Insulation for £13.4 million in cash funded from its existing resources.

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