May 20, 2013 | Africa, India, News, South & Central Asia
Business Standard 17 May 2013 Investment bankers have suggested that Bharti Airtel’s top management hive off the company’s African telecom tower assets into a separate company and then sell it to its listed subsidiary, Bharti Infratel, at a valuation of $2...
May 16, 2013 | Africa, News
Moscow Times 17 May 2013 Oil trader Gunvor, co-owned by businessman Gennady Timchenko, in January bought a 9.9-percent stake in Swedish oil and gas company PA Resources, a news report said Thursday, citing the company’s corporate materials. As a result of the...
May 14, 2013 | Africa, News
Africa Venture Capital Association 14 May 2013 Dutch fund manager XSML announced its investment in Starz-kin, a retail business consisting of shops that sell household goods to the lower end of the market in DRC. This investment, through XSML’s Central Africa SME...
May 14, 2013 | Africa, News
NAIROBI, May 14 (Reuters) – Kenya-based private equity firm Catalyst said it had acquired a 50 percent stake in Ethiopian food and drink maker Yes Brands to tap into the Horn of Africa nation’s large population and fast economic growth....
May 13, 2013 | Africa, News
CAPE TOWN, May 10 May 10 (Reuters) – Bob Geldof’s 8 Miles African private equity fund has made its first investment, backing a start-up company that plans to build commodity exchanges across Africa and improve food security. The rock star activist’s...
May 10, 2013 | Africa, News
African Venture Capital Association 9 May 2013 Injaro Agricultural Capital Holdings Limited (“Injaro”) announces an investment in Cote d’Ivoire’s poultry sector. Injaro has signed an agreement to invest in Proveto SA (“Proveto”), an important local poultry inputs...
