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Marc Barber

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Marc was editor of GrowthBusiness from 2006 to 2010. He specialised in writing about entrepreneurs, private equity and venture capital, mid-market M&A, small caps and high-growth businesses.

Venture Capital Funding

Q&A: A VC’s expected return

What rate of return would a venture capitalist generally expect?

News

New management steps in for Triage sale

Triage Services, which specialises in maintaining and repairing IT systems, has been bought in a secondary buy-out. Kaye Enterprises, Bridges Ventures and Calculus Capital financed the deal with debt provided by The Royal Bank of Scotland.

News

NSEI makes second investment in PointOV

Online retailer PointOV, tipped to be the ethical version of Amazon, has received £800,000 in a funding round led by the NorthStar Equity Investors (NSEI) Co-Investment Fund. The funding comprises £500,000 from NSEI and £300,000 from business angels.

News

Timely funding for MBO

In Time Watch Services (ITWS) has secured £1.75 million from its directors and Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF) to support its management buy-out and future expansion. 

News

Iceni backs Pell & Bales buy-out

A marketing services provider that assists charities and not-for-profit organisations with fundraising and campaigning has been bought by its senior management. Pell & Bales, which lists Cancer Research UK, Oxfam and the NSPCC among its clients, was sold by its co-founder for an undisclosed sum.

News

NVM backs second Promanex buy-out

The founder of a Warwickshire-based support services provider to the industrial sector has bought the business for the second time. Mark Dixon remains chief executive of Promanex Group after leading a secondary buy-out with the backing of NVM Private Equity.

News

Streetcar shows desire

The UK’s largest pay-as-you-go car club, Streetcar, has received £6.4 million funding from London-based private equity firm Smedvig Capital.

Entrepreneurs

Lager than life: Karan Bilimoria

From meagre and untimely beginnings in recession-hit 1990, Karan Bilimoria tells GrowthBusiness how he has turned Cobra beer into a brand that is now sold in more than 45 countries.

Growth Planning

Keeping an acquisition deal simple

An acquisition will be a particularly frantic time for both the buyer and seller. Andrew Millington, corporate finance partner at professional services firm Mazars, outlines the common pitfalls when structuring a deal and how to avoid them.

Financial Management

Managing exchange rates and currency transactions when trading abroad

Trading abroad is a regular part of business for many UK companies, so when it comes to effectively managing exchange rates and currency transactions, it pays to look around. Marc Barber reports.

News

Midven backs Alzheimer’s research

Cytox, a university spin-out that creates diagnostics tests and therapeutic cures for Alzheimer’s disease, has raised £1.25 million from Midven, NESTA and angel investors including members of Cambridge Angels and Cogent Lifesciences.

News

VASTox completes double deal

Biotechnology company VASTox has strengthened its drug discovery pipeline and pharmaceutical services business after it bought two companies. The Oxfordshire-based group has spent £16.5 million adding drug discovery company DanioLabs and specialist carbohydrate chemistry service Dextra Laboratories to its operations.

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