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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] |
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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] |
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] |
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] |
Drake Software
Drake may refer to: Animals * A male duck People and fictional characters * Drake (surname), a list of people and fictional characters with the family name * Drake (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Drake (musician) (born 1986), Canadian rapper, singer, and actor Aubrey Drake Graham Places United States * Drake, Arizona, an unincorporated community * Drake, Colorado, an unincorporated community * Drake, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Drake, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Drake, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Drake, North Dakota, a town * Drake, North Carolina, a place in Nash County near Dr. Franklin Hart Farm * Drake, South Carolina, an unincorporated community * Drake Park, Bend, Oregon Antarctica * Drake Passage, between Cape Horn and Antarctica * Drake Head, Oates Land, a headland * Drake Icefall, Ellsworth Land Australia * Drake County, New South Wales, Australia * Drake, New South Wales, a par ... [...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] |
CPP Investment Board
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB; french: Office d'investissement du régime de pensions du Canada), operating as CPP Investments (french: Investissements RPC), is a Canadian Crown corporation established by way of the 1997 ''Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act'' to oversee and invest the funds contributed to and held by the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). CPP Investments is one of the world's largest investors in private equity, having invested over US$28.1 billion between 2010 and 2014 alone. Despite being a Crown corporation, CPPIB is not considered a sovereign wealth fund because it operates at arm's length from the Government of Canada and solely manages CPP contributions paid by workers and employers, not public funds. As of June 30, 2022, the CPP Investment Board manages over C$523 billion in assets under management for the Canada Pension Plan on behalf of 20 million Canadians. History The Canada Pension Plan was first established in 1966. For much of i ... [...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] |
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] |
Premium Credit Ltd
Premium may refer to: Marketing * Premium (marketing), a promotional item that can be received for a small fee when redeeming proofs of purchase that come with or on retail products * Premium segment, high-price brands or services in marketing, e.g.: ** Premium business model, offering high end products and services ** Premium domain ** Premium email, a marketing term used by for-profit email services ** Premium fare, a higher fare on a public transport service ** Premium gasoline, a grade of gasoline, with the highest octane rating ** Premium lager, marketing term for beer ** Premium Processing Service, service offered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ** Premium Residency, a Saudi residence permit ** Premium station, a class of railway stations on Metlink in Melbourne ** Premium television, a class of subscription-based television service ** Premium texting, SMS used for delivering digital content ** Premium-rate telephone number, telephone numbers for w ... [...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] |
Northgate Information Solutions
NEC Software Solutions, formerly Northgate Public Services, is a provider of specialist software and outsourcing services for the public sector and is based in the United Kingdom. This followed its acquisition by NEC Corporation in January 2018. History Early years The company was founded as CMC, or Computer Machinery Company Limited, on 18 September 1969 by Ray Parry. They were originally distributors and subsequently manufacturers of key-to-disk computer systems made by the US-based Computer Machinery Corporation. The systems were used by companies and government departments for data capture. In 1976, CMC developed a bit-slice based intelligent terminal—the P99—which it used both as a front-end processor to the key-to-disk systems and as a terminal in its own right. It then evolved the P99 into the P141—a true front-end processor, which it used to implement a new data capture system called Sovereign. This was used in manufacturing companies such as Rolls-Royce plc, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CCMP Capital
CCMP Capital is an American private equity investment firm that focuses on leveraged buyout and growth capital transactions. Formerly known as JP Morgan Partners, the investment professionals of JP Morgan Partners separated from JPMorgan Chase on July 31, 2006. CCMP has invested approximately $12 billion in leveraged buyout and growth capital transactions since inception. In 2007, CCMP was ranked #17 among the world's largest private equity funds. CCMP has 37 employees with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. In 2008, CCMP hired Greg Brenneman as chairman."Eddie Bauer Files for Bankruptcy" by Stephanie Rosenbloom and Michael J. de la Merced, ''The New York Times'', June 17, 2009 (6/18/09, p. B3, NY ed.). Retrieved 6/18/09. History CCMP has been known by several n ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
