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posted on: October 23, 2011 19:43
Ascendis Health (Pty) Limited, the wholly owned health and lifestyle subsidiary of Coast2Coast Investments, today made an announcement that it had, along with existing management, acquired the Efekto business. The Landbank and Vantage Risk Capital, the BEE mezzanine financiers, provided part of the funding for the transaction.
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posted on: September 12, 2011 21:35
The third annual Green Supply Chain Awards, a joint initiative of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport: South Africa (CILTSA), the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA) and Supply Chain Today magazine, were awarded late last week to South Africa's top environmental industries.
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posted on: September 05, 2011 17:11
Striving to be “partners of excellence” to all their clients, Ethene Steenkamp (40) and Micky Wostenholm (38) offer a unique service in the capital-raising advisory space through their company, Fairbridge Capital.
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posted on: September 05, 2011 17:06
The TrenStar transaction displays Vantage Capital’s commitment to South Africa’s mid-market companies, Black Economic Empowerment, and increased exports.
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posted on: August 23, 2011 01:49
On July 1 new legislation came into effect allowing SA pension funds to invest up to 10% of contributions in private equity, four times the previous limit of 2.5%
"Of 175 companies assessed, only five were chosen to get funding".
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posted on: July 29, 2011 20:33
The African Development Bank has approved a US$25 million commitment to South Africa-based private equity fund manager Vantage Capital.
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posted on: June 07, 2011 20:57
Mezzanine funding can be a company’s best bet. Money lending is probably the second-oldest profession. And it appears in many wildly creative formats. When it comes to really big numbers - such as those involved in businesses - creativity and flexibility are hugely sought-after attributes.
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posted on: May 20, 2011 23:19
Vantage Capital Group (Pty) Ltd (“Vantage”) has become a signatory, in the category of Investment Manager, to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The management committee has approved the Principles and has committed to taking part in PRI’s annual Reporting and Assessment.
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posted on: May 10, 2011 22:28
Vantage Capital Group (Pty) Ltd (“the Company”) has been independently rated as a Level 2 contributor with regard to Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BB-BEE) in terms of the DTI codes of good practice.
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posted on: May 10, 2011 00:21
The TrenStar transaction displays Vantage Capital’s commitment to South Africa’s mid-market companies, Black Economic Empowerment, and increased exports.
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posted on: January 26, 2011 18:20
Private equity mezzanine group Vantage Capital has invested R85 million in TrenStar, a South African-based returnable packaging company.
The funds will be applied to expansion and replacement capital and to introduce black empowerment ownership. Party to the deal is RMB Private Bank (a division of FirstRand Bank Limited), which has provided R50 million in senior debt, raising the total funds committed to the transaction to R135 million. Vantage and RMB were introduced to TrenStar by Fairbridge Capital, who was the debt arranger in the transaction.
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posted on: January 25, 2011 15:01
TrenStar partners a German manufacturer of luxury motor vehicles in the design, manufacturing and management of returnable packing in Rosslyn, Pretoria.
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posted on: January 24, 2011 23:18
MUCH has been written about the rise of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and the shift in economic power eastward as Asia outruns the rest of the world. But the surprising success story of the past decade lies elsewhere. An analysis by The Economist finds that over the ten years to 2010, no fewer than six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were in sub-Saharan Africa.
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posted on: April 23, 2010 16:19
PUBLICATION CATALYST: - Vantage Capital recently opened offices in Cairo and in so doing has established itself as a major Pan-African private equity player. Catalyst met up with co-founder...
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posted on: April 23, 2010 14:00
“Grandview Fund expands its investments and cooperates with Vantage Capital to provide Mezzanine Financing”...
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posted on: April 23, 2010 13:09
PUBLICATION: EMERGING - Taking a step back...
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posted on: February 25, 2009 23:27
PUBLICATION: CITIZEN
ABSA Capital Private Equity, a unit of the Absa Group, has bought the entire issued share capital of building firm Kwikspace f...
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posted on: February 25, 2009 23:26
PUBLICATION: BUSINESS DAYMzwandile JacksA consortium of private equity investors led by Absa Capital Private Equity and Vantage Capital had acquired K...
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