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Aberdeen boards Travel Class buyout

Specialist tour operator Travel Class has completed a management buyout with backing from Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Private Equity (AMJPE).

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Kinetic gets £900,000 to keep on trucking

Innovative truck advertising group Kinetic Media has raised £900,000 to grow the business, allowing it to deal with increasing demand for its services.

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Shed Productions to park on AIM

Shed Productions – the company responsible for the hit ITV shows Bad Girls and Footballers’ Wives – will beam onto AIM on 18 March, following an anticipated £22 million Bridgewell-advised placing.

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Avidex seeking funds

Seed Capital, which runs the four Oxford Technology VCTs, has reduced the valuation of one of its major investments – highly regarded biotech group Avidex.

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Accuma float targets £4m

Debt advice provider Accuma is meeting strong demand for its shares ahead of an imminent flotation on AIM and now expects to raise £4 million (rather than the initially hoped for £2.5 million) with the aid of broker Daniel Stewart.

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Risk Capital chases down GRA

Risk Capital Partners, the private equity investment group headed by renowned restaurateur Luke Johnson, has announced the conditional purchase of greyhound race track operator GRA in a £50.3 million transaction.

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Kent plans AIM comeback

Andrew Kent, the entrepreneurial financier whose City role seemed finished with the controversial demise of stockbroker TC Coombs more than a decade ago, is lining up a string of eye-catching AIM floats.

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Timestrip backs onto AIM

Label technology venture Timestrip arrived on AIM today, following its reverse takeover of cash shell Internet Music & Media (IMM) and having raised just over £2 million en route.

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Kent plans AIM comeback

Andrew Kent, the entrepreneurial financier whose City role seemed finished with the controversial demise of stockbroker TC Coombs more than a decade ago, is lining up a string of eye-catching AIM floats.

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Timestrip backs onto AIM

Label technology venture Timestrip arrived on AIM today, following its reverse takeover of cash shell Internet Music & Media (IMM) and having raised just over £2 million en route.

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Ex-Shire boss Stahel to chair PowderMed

Rolf Stahel, the well-regarded former chief executive of Shire Pharmaceuticals, has agreed to become non-executive chairman of Oxford-based PowderMed, a specialist in developing immunotherapeutics.

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Qonnectis moves from OFEX to AIM

Meter-reading technology developer Qonnectis has completed its graduation from OFEX to AIM – raising a net £1.2 million, to fund its expansion plans, with the aid of broker HB Corporate.

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Exits from AIM

Listing on AIM can not only help growing businesses fund their expansion plans and increase corporate profile but can hasten the routes to exit too – as latest research from Business XL magazine reveals.

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£250,000 for Red Ventures

The Capital Fund has stumped up £250,000 in Red Ventures, a supplier of Disney-branded jewellery and giftware.