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Ways private equity sponsors cash out of portfolio companies, including IPOs, trade sales, and relistings, to realize returns on earlier investments.
ICG has hired advisers to find a buyer for Buzz Bingo, Britain's biggest bingo hall chain, after revenue rose 11 per cent to £241m. Bidders have to price a chain whose chief executive warned last month that a machine games duty rise would put bingo's viability at risk.
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Sainsbury's, the UK's second-largest grocer, held merger talks with sixth-placed Morrisons from November to February before walking away. A competition ruling on Aldi and Lidl due this month will shape how many stores a revived deal would cost.
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Wittington Investments, the Weston family's holding company, agreed on Wednesday to buy Boots from Sycamore Partners for $8.9bn. Boots gives up the prospect of public shareholders for a family owner promising stable long-term ownership and further investment.
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Accelevation's $540 million Nasdaq IPO sends $360 million to private equity backer Olympus Partners and $180 million to the company, before underwriting fees. The company's share is slated to repay debt and cover the costs of the listing, with general corporate purposes listed last.
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Reuters reports Blackstone is exploring a sale of ZO Skin Health at around $2 billion. The dermatologist-channel brand's strongest disclosed figure is the share of patients who bought it twice in 2025.
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The Health Federation of Nigeria expects national health spending to reach $52bn by 2030, about 11% a year in dollars, from a system that imports 70% of its medicines and insures fewer than one in ten Nigerians.
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Reuters says Goldman is advising a process that would value the alternative-data firm at roughly nine to 11 times a reported $280 million 2026 recurring-revenue target.
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