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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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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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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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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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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“Grandview Fund expands its investments and cooperates with Vantage Capital to provide Mezzanine Financing”...

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PUBLICATION: EMERGING - Taking a step back...

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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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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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