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Cinven
Cinven is a global private equity firm founded in 1977, with offices in nine international locations in Guernsey, London, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Luxembourg, Madrid, and Hong Kong that acquires Europe and United States based corporations, and emerging market firms that fit with their core businesses, and necessitate a minimum equity investment of €100 million or more. In 2015, it had €10.6 billion in assets under management. Cinven's funding base originally came solely from three pension funds in the United Kingdom ( British Coal, the Railway Industry and Barclays Bank) who remain as important investors. Cinven has been reported to originally stand for ''Coal Investment Nominees' for Venture Capital''. Cinven invests in six sectors on an international basis: Business Services; Technology, Media and Telecommunications; Financial Services; Industrials; Healthcare; and Consumer. In July 2021, the firm was fined £43m by the UK Competition and Markets Aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Cinven is a global private equity firm founded in 1977, with offices in nine international locations in Guernsey, London, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Luxembourg, Madrid, and Hong Kong that acquires Europe and United States based corporations, and emerging market firms that fit with their core businesses, and necessitate a minimum equity investment of €100 million or more. In 2015, it had €10.6 billion in assets under management. Cinven's funding base originally came solely from three pension funds in the United Kingdom (British Coal, the Railway Industry and Barclays Bank) who remain as important investors. Cinven has been reported to originally stand for ''Coal Investment Nominees' for Venture Capital''. Cinven invests in six sectors on an international basis: Business Services; Technology, Media and Telecommunications; Financial Services; Industrials; Healthcare; and Consumer. In July 2021, the firm was fined £43m by the UK Competition and Markets Auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synlab Group
SYNLAB Group is an international medical diagnostics provider with laboratory services for human and veterinary medicine as well as environmental analysis. The company emerged from the combination of the two medical diagnostics providers Labco and synlab. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, the company is present in more than 40 countries on four continents and employs around 20,000 employees. The company achieved sales revenues of approximately Euro 1.9 billion in 2018. In total, more than 400 laboratories belong to the SYNLAB hub and spoke laboratory network. The network comprises, among others, two European reference laboratories situated near Stuttgart and Barcelona as well as 31 central laboratories which are specialised and also run tests for other laboratories within the network. Regional and emergency laboratories constitute the majority of the network. Activities The company provides diagnostics services for human and veterinary medicine as well as for environmental analy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stada Arzneimittel
Stada Arzneimittel AG is a pharmaceutical company based in Bad Vilbel, Germany which specializes in the production of generic and over-the-counter drugs. In 2018, revenue totaled €2.33 billion. Commonly known products produced by Stada are Stada-brand acetaminophen and lactulose, Grippostad-C cold medicine and Ladival sun protection products. Stada is involved in various charity projects and sponsoring activities which include the support for dolphin aid e.V since 2007 and the support of a Romanian children's village in Timișoara. History Foundation & early history Stada was founded in Dresden in 1895 as a cooperative pharmacy. Stada was originally an acronym for ''Standardarzneimittel Deutscher Apotheker'' (Standard Drugs (of) German Pharmacists). After World War II, the company was relocated to Essen and Tübingen. In 1956 it was moved again to Bad Vilbel and in 1970, Stada began trading on the stock exchange as a public company. At that time the shares were restricted to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UFINET
UFINET is a Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It operates a Tier 2 network. History UFINET is a neutral, carrier of carrier's telecom company, created by Unión Fenosa (formerly known as Unión Fenosa Redes de Telecomunicación) in 1998. In 2009, it merged with the company Desarrollo de Cable, which belonged to the company Gas Natural, and this gave rise to Gas Natural Fenosa Telecomunicaciones (GNF Telecom). In 2014, CINVEN, an investment fund of private capital acquired the GNFT. The acquisition was carried out for a total of 510 million Euros. Since then, the company has traded as UFINET. In June 2018, ENEL acquired 21% of the company, while Cinven kept the remaining 79% Under the agreement, Enel X International has the right to exercise a call option to acquire the Sixth Cinven Fund’s stake between December 31st, 2020 and December 31st, 2021. Business areas UFINET provides telecommunication services throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partnership Assurance
Partnership Assurance Group plc is a provider of non-standard annuities for individuals with medical or lifestyle conditions. In April 2016 it became part of the JRP Group. History The company was established as a management buyout of the Pension Annuity Friendly Society with funding from Phoenix Equity Partners in September 2005. Cinven acquired the company in August 2008 and it was the subject of an initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment ... in June 2013. In December 2014, Partnership completed the UK's largest medically underwritten bulk annuity transaction – a £206 million ‘top-slicing’ deal with Taylor Wimpey. In April 2016 the company merged with Just Retirement to form JRP Group. Operations The company is a provider of annuities for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CeramTec
CeramTec manufactures and develops advanced ceramic components. The products are used in many different applications, especially in medical technologies, automotive manufacturing, electronics, equipment and machine construction, defense technologies, and chemical industries. The company headquarters are in Plochingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The company is present around the globe and has production sites and sales offices in the world’s most important markets. In Germany, the main sites are Plochingen, Lauf and Marktredwitz in addition to the company’s other German sites in Ebersbach, Lohmar, Wilhermsdorf and Wittlich. The company is a member of the Ceramic Industry Association (German: Verband der Keramischen Industrie e.V. - VKI). History The founding of CeramTec goes back to the year 1903, when the ''Thomas factories'' (Thomaswerke) were founded at the Marktredwitz site, and which were taken over by ''Philipp Rosenthal & Co. AG'' in 1908. In 1921 Philipp Rosen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PizzaExpress
PizzaExpress is a British multinational restaurant group, owned by a group of bondholders. It has over 470 restaurants across the United Kingdom and 100 overseas in Europe, Hong Kong, China, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Saudi Arabia. It was founded in 1965 by Peter Boizot. In July 2020, the business was taken over by its bondholders under a debt-for-equity swap with previous owner Hony Capital. In November 2020, Hony Capital left the business and the group restructure was completed, helping to cut the casual dining chain's debt by more than £400 million. History Founded in 1965 by Peter Boizot, PizzaExpress opened its first restaurant in London's Wardour Street. Inspired by a trip to Italy, Boizot brought back to London a pizza oven from Naples and a chef from Sicily. It was announced in 2020 that the Wardour Street branch would shut, and the site has since closed. In 1969, jazz performances began at its Dean St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TaxAct
TaxAct Holdings, Inc. is an American tax preparation software company based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The company offers its own software package "TaxAct" to individual tax registers, companies and professional affiliates. The company was founded in 1998. Since 2012, TaxAct Holdings, Inc. is a subsidiary of Blucora. History TaxAct Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1998 as ''2nd Story Software'' by Lance Dunn, the former Vice President of software development at Parsons Technology. Later, Lance Dunn recruited Jerry McConnell and Alan Sperfslage as developers, and Cammie Greif as a marketer. In 2000, a cloud-based version of TaxAct software was released. In 2004, TA Associates, a private equity firm based in Boston, acquired two-thirds of the company for $89 million. In October 2010, H&R Block said it would pay $287.5 million in cash to acquire the parent firm of TaxAct. In May 2011 the U.S. Department of Justice attempted to stop the acquisition in an antitrust lawsuit. In November 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medpace
Medpace Holdings, Inc. (alt. MedPace) is a midsize, clinical contract research organization (CRO) based in Cincinnati, Ohio. It provides services for Phase I-IV of drug and medical device development services including regulatory services and central laboratory services. The company started trading stock as a public firm in 2016. History Dr. August Troendle founded Medpace in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1992 as ''Medical Research Services''. Dr. Troendle first became interested in the CRO sector after working in both the regulatory and pharmaceutical area. He began his career as a reviewer with the FDA, specializing in the development of lipid lowering therapies to treat high cholesterol. With a team of industry physicians, Dr. Jonathan Issacsohn and Dr. Evan Stein completed many early studies while at Medpace and Medpace Reference Laboratories on the use of statin therapies for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia. Another Medpace physician, the late Dr. David Orloff was regarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avio
Avio S.p.A. is an Italian company operating in the aerospace sector with its head office in Colleferro near Rome, Italy. Founded in 1908, it is present in Italy and abroad with different commercial offices and 10 production sites. Avio operates in: *solid-propellant motors for space and tactical propulsion *electronic/electrical control and automation systems Avio is Prime Contractor for the new European launcher Vega and sub-contractor for the Ariane program, both financed by the European Space Agency (ESA) The company is active in the field of technological research. It carries out projects in collaboration with 14 Italian and 10 foreign universities and research centres, which are aimed at the continuous improvement of product and process technologies. It also undertakes the research of solutions in order to reduce the environmental impact of aircraft engines, in conformity with the objectives of consumption and emissions reduction dictated, within the European area, by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concordia Healthcare
Advanz Pharma Corp. is a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in London. It changed its name from Concordia Healthcare Corp. in November 2018. The company focuses on a number of therapy areas including endocrinology, ophthalmology, urology, anti-infectives, pain management, central nervous system disorders, oncology, haematology, cardiology and intensive care medicine. The company also focuses on acquiring legacy pharmaceutical compounds which are usually off-patent. The operational headquarters is in London, UK, operations centre in Mumbai, India and regional hubs in Europe, Australia and the US. History 2021 In July 2021 the Competition and Markets Authority found that the company "exploited a loophole enabling it to reap much higher profits" and was directly fined £40.9m. It raised the price of liothyronine tablets from £6 a pack to £248 in 2017. Its former private equity owners HgCapital and Cinven, which now form part of the company, were also fined £8.6 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Geiger
Kurt Geiger is a luxury British footwear and accessories brand. Kurt Geiger has around 70 stores, and approximately 170 concessions within department stores, including Harrods and Selfridges. Kurt Geiger owns three brands Kurt Geiger London, KG Kurt Geiger and Carvela Kurt Geiger, created by its in-house team. The Kurt Geiger headquarters is located off Britton Street, Clerkenwell, London. The building, originally dating from the 1970s, was remodelled in 2009 by Archer Architects and is finished in a distinctive red, described as Pompean Red. History The company is named after its Austrian founder. After a management buyout in 2008, it was sold by Graphite Capital to the U.S.-based brand management company The Jones Group in 2011. In 2014, the Jones Group was acquired by Sycamore Partners, who spun off Kurt Geiger into its own company. In December 2015, London-based private equity firm Cinven acquired Kurt Geiger from its previous owner, New York-based private equity firm S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
