Epiris, the manager of Electra Private Equity, has announced the sale of Electra’s interest in Innovia Group, a manufacturer of speciality films and substrate for polymer banknotes. Innovia Group has been sold to CCL Industries in a transaction that places an enterprise value on Innovia of $1.13 billion. Espiris says that, based on current exchange […]
Caledonia Investments has announced that it has agreed terms for the sale of Park Holidays UK, reportedly the UK’s third largest holiday park operator, to Tiger Bidco Limited, a special purpose vehicle incorporated by Intermediate Capital Group plc, for a headline enterprise value of £362m. Caledonia says that it will receive £197m in cash, net […]
Epiris, the manager of Electra Private Equity, has announced that it has agreed the sale of Parkdean Resorts, a leading UK operator of caravan holiday parks, to Onex Corporation, for £1.35 billion. Espiris says that it anticipates that the transaction will close in the first quarter of 2017, subject to customary regulatory approvals. Espiris says […]
GCP Student Living has announced the results of its placing, which it says was substantially oversubscribed. As a result of the placing, which raised raise gross proceeds of £23m, the company is issuing 16,428,572 ‘placing shares’ at 140p per share. The company says that, following the issue of the placing shares, the 2016 placing programme […]
Dunedin Smaller Companies Investment Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 October 2016. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of 7.0% and a share price total return of 4.1%. According to the company, this compares against a total return of 6.7% for its benchmark index, the FTSE […]
SVG Capital has announced the results of its tender offer, the details of which were set out in the company’s shareholder circular published by the Company on 17 November 2016. The company says that 122,492,644 ordinary shares were validly tendered and, following application of the scale-back mechanism, 48,951,048 ordinary shares will be purchased at a […]
Oakley Capital Investments has announced that it is declaring its maiden dividend of 4.5p per share in respect of the 2016 financial year. The dividend will be paid on 30 January 2017 to shareholders registered on 30 December 2016. Thereafter, its Board says that it will adopt a dividend policy which takes into account the […]
F&C Global Smaller Companies has announced its interim results for the half-year ended 31 October 2016. During the period, the company has provided an NAV total return of 18.0% and a share price total return of 17.4%. The returns are modestly below that of the company’s benchmark index, which is calculated from the returns of […]
Alliance Trust has made an announcement regarding the outcome of its strategic review. Rather than cut and paste it, we have attached a pdf of the announcement here: 20161215-atst-rns-outcome-of-strategic-review Alliance Trust completes strategic review : ATST
Chelverton Small Companies Dividend Trust has announced its interim results for the half year ended 31 October 2016. During the period, the trust’s NAV fell by 2.97%, which it says compares against a rise in its benchmark index, the MSCI UK Small Cap Index, of 6.13%. The trust paid a dividend of 3.7p per share […]
