Jun 18, 2013 | News, Western Europe
Financial Times 16 June 2013 The private equity owners of Germany’s Grohe are considering an initial public offering or trade sale that could value Europe’s largest sanitary fittings maker by sales at nearly €4bn, including debt. David Haines, chief executive,...
Jun 18, 2013 | News, North America, Western Europe
Heraldonline.com 17 June 2013 CAMDEN, N.J. — Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Kelsen Group A/S from Maj Invest, a private equity firm, and several other investors. Based in Nørre Snede, Denmark, Kelsen...
Jun 18, 2013 | MENA, News, Western Europe
TEL AVIV, June 4 (Reuters) – Porsche (PSHG_p.DE) is in talks to buy 10 percent of Mobileye, which develops technology to assist drivers, for $150 million, the Calcalist financial news website reported on Tuesday. Israel-based Mobileye is seeking to bring in...
Jun 17, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Western Europe
East-West Digital News Earlier this month, Russian search giant Yandex announced that it has provided a €150,000 grant to Wikidata, a non-profit organization that is developing a knowledge database with structured information obtained from Wikipedia articles. Launched...
Jun 13, 2013 | France, News, Western Europe
LONDON, June 12 (Reuters) – The private equity owners of Numericable have hired Rothschild to work on a Paris stock market debut this year that could value the French cable operator at up to 5 billion euros ($6.7 billion), four sources with knowledge of the plan...
Jun 13, 2013 | China, East Asia, France, News, Western Europe
(Reuters) – French perfume and cosmetics retailer Nocibe has received expressions of interest from German perfume-to-books group Douglas Holding and from French private equity firm LBO France in an alliance with Chinese conglomerate Fosun, French daily Le Figaro...
