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Sector Watch – January ‘05

This month…pub chains toast a bumper Christmas, insurers look to the future with optimism and telecoms firms contemplate the rising profile of VoIP.

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Barclays buys Gaucho stake

Barclays Private Equity has supported the £23.5 million management buy-out of Gaucho Grill, adding to its burgeoning portfolio of restaurant businesses.

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Voller sets sights on AIM

Voller Energy, a maker of portable fuel cell systems for use as battery chargers and mobile generators that is chaired by Speedy Hire's John Brown, has unveiled plans to float on AIM.

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ECI offloads Tragus and looks to the future

Buy-out and development capital specialist ECI Partners has sold its interest in Tragus Holdings generating an impressive five times return on its original £11 million investment, in just two years.

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Private equity investment continues to rise

Growth businesses are likely to benefit from a further spike in private equity funding in early 2005, with both private investment networks and front line venture capitalists predicting an increase in deal flow.

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The future’s bright for UK MBOs

The UK's buyout market was as in rude health last year and the prognosis for 2005 is even better, according to research from KPMG's private equity team.

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Fresh start for Sutcliffe

Matt Sutcliffe is putting the finishing touches on his new venture, Alexander Gold.

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Gunn loads up for new AIM salvo

John Gunn, the former British & Commonwealth finance group chief who now backs ‘micro-cap’ start-up concerns, is proposing to tap the AIM market for up to £8 million with a new environmentally-oriented shell company, Vert-ECO.

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Fresh start for Sutcliffe

Matt Sutcliffe is putting the finishing touches on his new venture, Alexander Gold.

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Gunn loads up for new AIM salvo

John Gunn, the former British & Commonwealth finance group chief who now backs ‘micro-cap’ start-up concerns, is proposing to tap the AIM market for up to £8 million with a new environmentally-oriented shell company, Vert-ECO.

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New Advent fund raises £128 million

London-based Advent has concluded the first phase of its latest fundraising, raking in an initial £128 million for its latest fund, Advent Private Equity IV.

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Storm Aviation takes off

Gatwick-based Storm Aviation has completed a deal, which sees the aircraft maintenance group’s founders leave the business and management conclude a buy-out.

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Brown & Mitchell quit F&C

Bill Brown and Robert Mitchell, who manage the two AIM VCTs alongside other small cap funds, have decided to leave F&C Asset Management following the merger with ISIS.

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£3.1m for Marrakech

E-procurement solutions provider Marrakech has received £3.1 million in funding from a group of venture capitalists including Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures.

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