BGF identifies 4,000 UK high growth companies
Business NewsThe Business Growth Fund (BGF) has launched its own monitor of growth companies.
Series D round worth £10 million for notonthehighstreet.com
Currently 40 small businesses a day apply to join notonthehighstreet.com
Online marketplace notonthehighstreet.com has closed its Series D fundraising round and netted £10 million.
Managed data services company Six Degrees Group was set up in October 2011
Datahop snapped up by Six Degrees
Mergers & AcquisitionsSix Degrees Group has continued with its busy M&A period by acquiring Datahop, a datacentre interconnection business, GrowthBusiness can exclusively reveal.
London-based football club Arsenal joined PLUS-SX when it was called OFEX
ICAP buys PLUS-SX for £1
IPO & City NewsLoss-making junior stock exchange PLUS-SX is to be sold to inter-dealer broker ICAP for a nominal sum.
WANdisco looks to AIM for development
IPO & City News
Software business WANdisco intends to join AIM this June in an IPO that will raise £10 million.
Blis helps brands to reach a target audience through platforms such as tablets
Two new VCs for Blis Media
Fundraising DealsBlis Media has attracted the interest of two new institutional backers and netted a further $1.4 million (£887,000) in capital.
Ocean Outdoor site showing Burberry's Body campaign
Ocean Outdoor exits from Smedvig after four years
Mergers & AcquisitionsLDC has led a secondary buy-out of Ocean Outdoor on the back of the business increasing its revenue by three-fold during Smedvig Capital's four year involvement.
Michael Queen spent three years as chief executive of 3i
Borrows takes over from Queen at 3i
Business NewsThree months after stepping down as head of 3i, Michael Queen has been replaced from within by Simon Borrows.
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UK CFOs more cautious than most
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British chief financial officers are less ambitious than their global counterparts, new findings show.
BDO calls for ‘concrete change’ from manufacturing policies
Business NewsThe government’s attempts to boost UK manufacturing have been labelled by BDO as 'empty rhetoric'.
Bridges Ventures supports Tech City firm cloud.IQ
Fundraising DealsSustainable growth investor Bridges Ventures has provided £2 million in funding to integrated marketing technology company cloud.IQ.
BagThat rings up £2 million
Fundraising DealsNew online store BagThat has netted £2 million in funding two weeks after the business launched.
VCs and entrepreneurs not on the same page says Coutts
Business NewsEntrepreneurs in the UK confess to a lack of understanding amongst venture capital professionals about the concept of entrepreneurship.
Third cloud acquisition for Six Degrees during its maiden year
Mergers & AcquisitionsSix Degrees Group has landed a double acquisition, six months after the business was launched by British entrepreneur Alastair Mills with help from Penta Capital.
Firm behind Paperchase buy-out backs Leisure Pass
Mergers & AcquisitionsDarran Evans, CEO of Leisure Pass Group, has led a management buy-out (MBO) of the business with help from private equity firm Primary Capital.
Northern sportswear business gets ISIS seal of approval
Fundraising DealsISIS Equity Partners has led an investment round into sportswear brand inov-8, its third transaction of 2012.
PLUS admits defeat and is set to wind down
IPO & City NewsThe board of PLUS Markets Group has given up its search for a new buyer and initiated an ‘orderly closure’.
