Rutland Partners, the UK private equity partnership, announces that it has exchanged contracts to acquire the CeDo group of companies (“CeDo”) from DELTON AG, Bad Homburg / Germany (“Delton”) for an undisclosed sum. The transaction is conditional on merger control clearances and is expected to...
Rutland Partners LLP (“Rutland”), the UK private equity partnership, announces that it has exchanged contracts to acquire Pulse Home Products Limited and the business of certain other domestic appliance brands (together “Pulse”) from Alba PLC for a total consideration of £51.5 million. The transaction is...
Rutland Partners LLP, the UK private equity partnership, announces that it has completed the sale of its investment in Svensk Pantbelåning AB (“SP”) to Preato Capital Ltd. Preato Capital is the parent company of Finland’s largest pawnbroker, Helsingin Pantti-Osakeyhtiö. SP is Sweden’s leading pawnbroker with 12...
Rutland Partners announces that it has successfully closed its second fund, Rutland Fund II, at £322 million. Rutland Fund II had a target of £250 million and held a first close at £312 million in December 2006 following four months of fundraising. The final close...
Rutland Partners LLP (“Rutland”), the UK private equity partnership, announces that it has acquired Attends Healthcare Holdings Limited (“Attends”) from 3i plc for €93.5 million. Attends is the trading name of the European operations formerly known as PaperPak which 3i acquired in 2002. Attends manufactures and...
Rutland Partners, the UK private equity partnership, announces that one of its portfolio companies, Wolstenholme Group Limited (“Wolstenholme”), has today announced the sale of the business, certain assets and goodwill of its metallic effect pigment and metallic printing ink business (“the Metallics Business) to Eckart...