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UPDATE 1-Ultra Clean to buy private co for $99 mln

May 18, 2012 11:20 PM Reuters: Private Equity

May 18 (Reuters) - Semiconductor gear maker Ultra Clean Holdings Inc said it would buy privately held American Integration Technologies LLC (AIT) for about $99 million in a cash-and-stock deal to...

WRAPUP 4-U.S. firms eye Myanmar as sanctions suspended

May 18, 2012 8:10 PM Reuters: Private Equity

WASHINGTON/HONG KONG, May 18 (Reuters) - The suspension of U.S. sanctions barring investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms in the poor Southeast Asian state opens the door to U.S....

Winnebago gets $321.5 mln buyout offer

May 18, 2012 4:36 PM Reuters: Private Equity

RLPC-Bristol Airport under pressure to refinance debt

May 18, 2012 3:21 PM Reuters: Private Equity

LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) - The owners of Bristol Airport may have to stump up some cash to help with the refinancing of 515 million pounds ($814 million) of debt which falls due next year, banking...

German clothes exporter looking for buyer -sources

May 18, 2012 3:14 PM Reuters: Private Equity

FRANKFURT, May 18 (Reuters) - The family owners of Schustermann & Borenstein have mandated Goldman Sachs to sell the German clothing exporter, two people close to the transaction said on Friday, a...

WRAPUP 3-U.S. firms eye Myanmar as sanctions suspended

May 18, 2012 1:29 PM Reuters: Private Equity

WASHINGTON/HONG KONG, May 18 (Reuters) - The suspension of U.S. sanctions barring investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms in the poor Southeast Asian state opens the door to U.S. firms...

UPDATE 1-Fondiaria gets cool Unipol reaction to merger terms

May 18, 2012 1:25 PM Reuters: Private Equity

* Unipol reaction "chilly" - source (Releads, adds Fondiaria statement, source, shares)

UPDATE 2-Carlyle in talks on $1.25 bln Taiwan bank sale-sources

May 18, 2012 12:37 PM Reuters: Private Equity

* Ta Chong shares end 7 pct limit up, reversing from 3 pct loss

Russian Orthodox Patriarch joins Facebook

May 18, 2012 11:57 AM East-West Digital News

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, can now be contacted through his [...]

UPDATE 1-Australia's PEP kickstarts Link Group sale-sources

May 18, 2012 10:38 AM Reuters: Private Equity

* Link Group's annual EBITDA estimated at $120-130 mln-source

ABBYY and IBM support computational linguistics in Russian universities

May 18, 2012 7:46 AM East-West Digital News

The Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have each announced [...]

Australia's PEP kickstarts Link Group sale-sources

May 18, 2012 7:13 AM Reuters: Private Equity

HONG KONG/SYDNEY, May 18 (Reuters) - Australian private equity fund Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) has kickstarted the auction of share registry business Link Group, a deal that could value the...

ATM skimming on the rise

May 18, 2012 12:52 AM East-West Digital News

The number of ATM skimming crimes in Russia shot up ninefold to 362 in Q1 of 2012 compared to only [...]

Global software, games and consumer electronics companies target Russia

May 17, 2012 3:24 PM East-West Digital News

Digital River, a US-based software company, has just released a survey of 250 companies across Asia, Europe, North America and [...]

Satellite phone operators Iridium and Thuraya come back to Russia

May 17, 2012 6:58 AM East-West Digital News

Iridium Communications, the global satellite communications company, expects to commence operations soon in Russia, after technical tests are completed and [...]

Government-sponsored cloud platform offers software, infrastructure and development solutions

May 16, 2012 2:56 AM East-West Digital News

Rostelecom, the state-owned telecom operator, has completed phase one of “Project 07,” the national cloud computing platform to be fully [...]

Qualcomm could invest “hundreds of millions of dollars” in Russian tech companies

May 15, 2012 7:33 AM East-West Digital News

Qualcomm, a leading US-based international provider of wireless technology and services – with a particular emphasis on chipsets for smartphones [...]

Dating site Flirtic.com launches in Russia

May 15, 2012 7:13 AM East-West Digital News

Flirtic.com, a dating and matchmaking site that began operating in early 2011, chose Russia as its first step to international [...]

E-books now 5% of market, but pirates still dominate

May 15, 2012 12:03 AM East-West Digital News

Russia’s e-book market has been growing at a robust CAGR of 120% over the past three years, swelling from 11 [...]

Fast Lane launches online commercial real estate service

May 14, 2012 2:05 AM East-West Digital News

Fast Lane Ventures, the Moscow-based serial startup developer, has launched an online service called Kommerstate.ru to help commercial real estate [...]

Plastics-PET Preform Business in Uganda

18-05-2012 - Uganda - Private Equity - Plastics - $1m to $5m

Invest in a growing well-established, plastics company that has a ten year history of high growth and profitability The Company is an indigenous Ugandan manufacturing company that has been in operation for the past 13 years. With key interests in candles and PET preforms, as well as general plastics, the Company is growing steadily and currently operates at 30% capacity yielding an annually turnover of USD 860k for the year ending December 2011. The Company is now interested to grow beyond its borders and to become a major player in the packaging industry in Great Lakes region of East Africa. By adding equipment to existing facilities, the Company will be able to include other plastic goods such as basins, cups, trays and jerrycans to its already strong product portfolio. Read more

Payment Processing Gateway Service for Regional Niche Markets

14-05-2012 - Brazil - Venture Capital - Financial Services - $5m to $20m
Payment Processing Gateway Service for Regional Niche Markets

Invest in an established niche player in one of the world’s strongest card payments markets The Company’s business is to capture, route, store and transmit financial information from a proprietary POS machines network, and provide loan management, payment reconciliation, and other business related to debit and credit card processing as an authorized “sub-acquirer”. The Company is a tested and approved operation and is expanding in the very promising and attractive payment gateway market. Read more

Seeking a Knowledge Outsource Business for the Financial Services Industries

02-05-2012 - India - Buy Search - Business Services - $5m to $20m
Seeking a Knowledge Outsource Business for the Financial Services Industries

Join a well-established and highly reputable financial services institution The shareholders of a leading financial services institution in India seek an acquisition of a knowledge process outsourcing business that provided services for any or all services in the banking, financial services and insurance industries globally. Services provided by the target might include investment research, business research, equity research, credit ratings research or analytics. The business should currently be profitable with revenues more than USD 10 million. Read more

Tire/Tube Manufacturer with Modern Production Facilities

18-04-2012 - India - Company Sale - Manufacturing - $5m to $20m
Tire/Tube Manufacturer with Modern Production Facilities

Acquire a modern, fully-certified tire manufacturer with strong distribution in India and export markets This Company manufactures cross-ply nylon tires and butyl tire tubes for trucks, buses, tractors, motorcycles and 3-wheelers. The Company has two state-of-the-art manufacturing units in Western India and currently employs around 170 employees and around 250 contract laborers. The Company has imported equipment from Europe to manufacture tubes according to international standards, and has a modern in-house tire testing center. The Company’s products are certified by DOT (USA), EMark (European Union), GSO (GCC countries), and SNI (Indonesia). The Company is the only mid-tier player to have such a facility in India. With current expansion plans, the Company’s operating capacity is about ... Read more

Esteemed Macedonian Vineyards/Winery

17-04-2012 - Macedonia - Company Sale - Beverages - $20m to $50m
Esteemed Macedonian Vineyards/Winery

Purchase a large modern winery and vineyards that are located in a unique continental Mediterranean wine region This modern Winery is located in the continental Mediterranean Povardarje wine region, which has an annual temperature average from 12.4 to 14.8 degrees Celsius and average rainfall of 437 to 762 mm. The Winery has 450 hectares of vineyards. There are no industrial facilities nearby. Vineyard yield in 2010 was about 3.2 tons per hectare. The Winery is modern and controlled by the professional team. Total Winery capacity is about 17 million liters of wine. Winery technology has come from leading Italian manufacturers. All wines carry EU certificates and some have won Gold and Silver awards at EU and World expositions. Read more

Simple Mobile Payment Gateway for Small/Micro Businesses

16-04-2012 - India - Venture Capital - Internet - $1m to $5m
Simple Mobile Payment Gateway for Small/Micro Businesses

Invest in a novel system that will enable India’s large number of small merchants to receive card payments This start-up Company plans to introduce a new and simple payment gateway system that will enable small merchants and sellers who now only take cash to receive card payments. Service providers and casual sellers on the move will be able to use a smart phone or a tablet and a small card-reader, which will attract card users into their space. The principal customers for the payment system are small and micro businesses, sellers on the move such as taxi drivers, ice cream parlors, coffeehouses, fast-food services, pizza delivery services, hairdressers, courier services and collection agents among many others. The concept will be a mutually beneficial for both customers and merchants. Read more

Environmental Services for the Oil/Gas/Petroleum Industry

13-04-2012 - USA - Venture Capital - Energy - $1m to $5m
Environmental Services for the Oil/Gas/Petroleum Industry

Invest in an important service for the oil and gas industry that creates significant environmental and worker safety improvements The Company specializes the refinishing of drilling tools, components, refinery parts and offshore equipment through the use of specialized high pressure abrasive blasting. The Company has acquired access to exterior pipe blasting and interior pipe blasting equipment that few companies in America have available. The Company has also formulated a special blend of blast media that helps lower or eliminate waste and/or byproducts that are harmful to the environment. Instead of grinding tools and parts to have them inspected, which takes time and is harmful to employees, the Company can media blast the part in less time and expose the metal for better inspection and ... Read more

Textile/ Ready-Made Garment Factory in Macedonia

10-04-2012 - Macedonia - Company Sale - Textile and Apparel - $50m to $100m
Textile/ Ready-Made Garment Factory in Macedonia

Acquire a well-established textile and garment producer that serves customers in the EU and United States This textile Factory is a vertically integrated textile and garment producer that was established in 1951. It began as a yarn mill, and then grew into a weaving mill for fabrics, blankets, and ready-made garments. Its production facilities now consist of a yarn and hand-knitting mill, a fabric and blanket mill, a ready-made garment mill, and a knitwear mill. It has complete energy, water and rail services for its 60,000 square meters of buildings on 25 hectares of land. It is fitted out with a wide range of European equipment. The Factory’s product portfolio includes ready-made garments for men and ladies clothing such as suits, pants, jackets, coats, overcoats, skirts, and jackets. ... Read more

Commercial Bank In Macedonia with 30 Branch Offices

09-04-2012 - Macedonia - Company Sale - Banking - $20m to $50m
Commercial Bank In Macedonia with 30 Branch Offices

Acquire a well-positioned mid-market bank with branches throughout the country This mid-range commercial Bank has its head office in the capital Skopje and has 30 sub-branches throughout the country. It is listed on the stock exchange and has a partnership with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The Bank is a good partner bank for small and medium sized enterprises in Macedonia and a top choice bank for retail clients. It has correspondent accounts with US and EU banks. It offers all traditional banking services such as loans, saving deposits, credit and debit cards, International money transfer, foreign exchange, bank guarantees, letters of credit, securities trading, e-banking and vault operations. Read more

Small-Scale Natural Gas Liquifier Fuel Station to Serve Vehicle Fleets

06-04-2012 - USA - Private Equity - Alternative Energy - $5m to $20m
Small-Scale Natural Gas Liquifier Fuel Station to Serve Vehicle Fleets

Invest in a fully developed technology that facilitates the conversion of vehicle fleets to LNG, an abundant, clean and less expensive fuel The Company has developed a unique small-scale natural gas liquifier mini-station that is capable of producing, storing and dispensing liquefied natural gas (LNG) as well as compressed natural gas (CNG) on demand. Its units acquire inexpensive raw natural gas from the local utility's underground distribution system that runs beneath a customer's site (no trucking of feedstock necessary), and then purifies, liquefies and converts the natural gas into a clean-burning, high-octane automotive fuel - a viable alternative to gasoline and diese1. The technology is fully developed, tested, patented, and ready to deploy. A prototype was tested at a Department of ... Read more

Electronic Payment Solutions for SME Retail Market

05-04-2012 - USA - Private Equity - Financial Services - $1m to $5m
Electronic Payment Solutions for SME Retail Market

Invest in a growing payment solutions provider that is successfully expanding through its competitive pricing and technology The Company is a fully registered Independent Sales Organization (ISO) that offers services to small and medium sized merchants including credit and debit card processing, gift cards, reward and loyalty programs, a proprietary “Connect” card, cash advances and equipment leases. It handles all settlement, operational and support functions. It supports consumer usage data collection and mining for gift and loyalty programs to facilitate outbound marketing campaigns. It provides customers with high quality customized artwork for marketing programs. The Company’s sales program targets high-credit merchants to reduce chargeback risks and avoids micro and mini merchants. ... Read more

Reclamation of Gold/Silver from Mine Tailing Ponds

04-04-2012 - USA - Debt Finance - Mining - $5m to $20m
Reclamation of Gold/Silver from Mine Tailing Ponds

Provide debt financing that will be repaid with precious metals at a steep market discount, for a project that will rehabilitate an environmental hazard This Project involves the reclamation and rehabilitation of a Nevada site that contains 10 tailing ponds that were created as the result of strip mining operations for lead over 60 years ago to support the war effort during World War II. The hasty mining process left much of the lead still in the ground as well as completely ignored gold, silver and zinc from the mine tailings, and created an environmental impairment that remains today. The Developer has performed assays of six of the tailing ponds and found large metallic resources at this site (gold, silver, zinc and lead). Based upon recovery processes devised by the Developer’s engineering ... Read more

Multi-Media Telecom Services Provider

03-04-2012 - Moldova - Project Finance - Telecom - $50m to $100m
Multi-Media Telecom Services Provider

Join a successful telecom leader in Moldova for the development of a new LTE license operator The Company is a new multimedia telecom services provider in Moldova that will offer 4G mobile services, IPTV, Voice-over-IP, and high speed Internet over a FTTH network. There is a window of opportunity for a new operator to be developed in 2012 when LTE licenses become available. This Project is being developed by Accent Electronics, a well-known Moldovan Company that was the former shareholder of the number 2 mobile provider in Moldova (it sold its shares in 2003 and the non-compete period has expired). Accent has strong telecom knowhow and owns a national underground duct network of 1300 km, which is ready for fiber optic cable deployment. It is a local partner to such international players as ... Read more

High Quality Gypsum Mine in Turkey

02-04-2012 - Turkey - Venture Capital - Construction Materials - $20m to $50m
High Quality Gypsum Mine in Turkey

Develop a large and high quality resource that is in high demand in the rapidly growing construction industry in Turkey and adjacent countries This Project involves the exploitation of a high quality gypsum deposit in central Turkey. It is estimated that this surface gypsum deposit is about 5 billion tons with purity more than 97%. It can be cheaply exploited and processed locally. The Project includes the commissioning of a gypsum powder plant and gypsum board plant. The Project is currently at the stage of completion of the Search License, and the owners are moving forward to acquire an Operations License valid for 60 years. Natural gas supplies and a power station are near the gypsum deposit. Surface transport to seaports for export is very good. Read more

Biogas Plant in Northern Italy

01-04-2012 - Italy - Project Finance - Alternative Energy - $5m to $20m
Biogas Plant in Northern Italy

Invest in a green energy project with fifteen year subsidized energy tariffs The Project consists of the construction of two biogas plants with a capacity of one MWe each on two hectares of land. The plant will use various agricultural substrates collected from nearby agricultural producers, and from own production on 150 hectares of land leased for 15 years. Project documentation has been completed and applications made to Enel S.p.A, an Italian electric utility company. Read more

Refined Oil Products Distributor

29-03-2012 - Romania - Private Equity - Wholesale Trade - $1m to $5m
Refined Oil Products Distributor

A strategic opportunity to buy into an established refined oil products distribution business The Company began business as a wholesale distributor of petroleum products in 2007. The Company focuses on distribution to small traders and fuel stations, as well as to end-users, particularly companies in the transportation and in the construction industries. Sales have grown from 3,000 tons in 2008 to 48,500 tons in 2010. Revenues for 2011 were approximately €100 million. The Company’s market share in 2011 was 12% of the large account distribution segment, which is around 750,000 tons annually. The Company principally supplies products from Lukoil Romania and OMV/Petrom, which represents 60% of its sales. Read more

Sports, Leisure, Lifestyle Complex in the German Countryside

27-03-2012 - Germany - Private Equity - Leisure - $5m to $20m
Sports, Leisure, Lifestyle Complex in the German Countryside

Invest in a complete recreational and training complex that serves a large population and public sector budget customers This Project is the development of a high tech sports and professional training and shooting facility for sports, police and hunting. It will include a biathlon training area, a 120-room, 4-star hotel, a wellness center, sports medical facility and life-style shopping mall. Top quality experienced operators have already signed long-term leases for all facilities. All operating and planning permissions are already signed. A fixed price contract has been made with construction consortium. Local government subsidies will be available. An independent government survey of the Project and its approval is available from a sector expert. Read more

Away-from-Home Tissue Paper Products Business

26-03-2012 - Romania - Company Sale - Paper Products - $1m to $5m
Away-from-Home Tissue Paper Products Business

Acquire a market leader with top retailer customers, and modern equipment and ample expansion capability Established in 2002, this family business is a market leader in the AFH tissue sector with EUR 5m in revenues. The Company is a key business in the Romanian paper industry, producing consumer tissue products such as toilet paper, napkins and paper towels. It has been consistently profitable over recent years and has solid potential for future growth in the fast growing local market. The Company has a new modern production facility of 1,300 square meters with ISO 9002:2001 and ISO 1401 certification and space for further expansion and product diversification. Over the years, the Company has made important investments in technology and enhancement of processing and production capacities. ... Read more

Self-Heating/Chilling Single-Use Beverage Container

22-03-2012 - USA - Private Equity - Packaging - $5m to $20m
Self-Heating/Chilling Single-Use Beverage Container

Invest in a market-ready product that serves a large and growing consumer market with additional military and medical applications This California-based Company has invested $6 million in a consumer beverage packaging technology over the past five years. The Company’s first product line, now ready for commercialization, consists of a single-use, ready-to-drink beverage cup that heats contents to over 150ºF/65ºC in about a minute; and a similar container that cools contents to 40ºF/4ºC in two minutes. The consumer need only press a button on the bottom of the cup and shake it lightly to begin the process. Although there are related technologies around the globe, none are currently sold in the United States, and none of the existing technologies appear to provide the same level of performance, ... Read more

Russia’s Largest Vending Machine Business

16-03-2012 - Russia - Private Equity - Retail - $5m to $20m
Russia’s Largest Vending Machine Business

Invest in the expansion of the nationwide leader of a proven market with excellent growth potential The Company, founded in 2006, is now Russia’s largest vending machine operator. It now has a network of 3700 coffee and snack vending machines controlled by ten regional offices that include Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Rostov, Volgograd, Perm, Kaliningrad and Krasnodar. The Company has a nationally recognized brand name and it has gained considerable experience and knowledge of the vending industry. The Company has a strong technological advantage based upon close cooperation with Unicum, a major Russian vending equipment and technology provider, which provides customized equipment in accordance with specific requirements of the Company. It has direct contracts with major FCMG ... Read more

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