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Thursday 23 May 2013

8 Miles Announce First Investment in Commodities Exchange Start Up Saturday, 11 May 2013 Bob Geldof’s 8 Miles Fund will make its first investment by joining Morgan Stanley and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), with a USD5m seed capital investment in Eleni LLC, a Kenya-incorporated start up to set up commodities... Read more about 8 Miles Announce First Investment in Commodities Exchange Start Up Comments Quick view	Injaro Invest in Côte d’Ivoire Poultry Input Supplier Thursday, 9 May 2013 Injaro Agricultural Capital Holdings have announced an investment in Ivorian poultry farming supplier Proveto SA. Proveto plan to use the funds invested to resume their expansion plans that had been halted by the outbreak of Côte d’Ivoire’s conflict two... Read more about Injaro Invest in Côte d’Ivoire Poultry Input Supplier Comments Quick view
Transcentury Exit Tanzanian Tea Firm to Catalyst Wednesday, 16 January 2013 Investment firm TransCentury were keen to streamline their investment portfolio to power and transport infrastructure and engineering, PE fund managers Catalyst Principal Partners saw another Tanzania opportunity: TransCentury sold their entire stake in... Read more about Transcentury Exit Tanzanian Tea Firm to Catalyst Comments Quick view	Pearl Capital Partners Exit Africert Wednesday, 19 December 2012 Kenyan Business Daily reports that Pearl Capital Partners (PCP have exited their 36% stake in Kenyan Africert through a sale to an undisclosed local buyer. Africert provides agribusiness certification services. According to the news coverage, ‘PCP’s... Read more about Pearl Capital Partners Exit Africert Comments Quick view
Phatisa Invest USD10.5m in DRC Palm Oil Producer Feronia Tuesday, 11 December 2012 The Phatisa-managed African Agriculture Fund (AAF) has announced a USD10.5m investment in Feronia Inc, the DRC palm oil producer. Feronia own three palm oil plantations in Yaligimba, Boteka and Lokutu as well as a commercial farm in Bas Congo Province.... Read more about Phatisa Invest USD10.5m in DRC Palm Oil Producer Feronia Comments Quick view	XSML Invest in Coffee Firm in CAR Friday, 30 November 2012 XSML have certainly had a good year spending their funds: at the end of November 2012, the fund managers announced another acquisition from their Central Africa SME Fund (CASF), this time in a coffee firm in the Central African Republic (CAR).... Read more about XSML Invest in Coffee Firm in CAR Comments Quick view
Agribusiness PE Investment: Big Potential, Slow Start Tuesday, 27 November 2012 Private equity and agribusiness are uneasy bedfellows in Africa. The sector still counts for the majority of employment and economic activity in rural areas across the continent, and pops up in plenty of PE fund investment strategies here. But finding and... Read more about Agribusiness PE Investment: Big Potential, Slow Start Comments Quick view	Carlyle Team up for First SSA Deal Tuesday, 13 November 2012 Carlyle Group have teamed up with the Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund and Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE) for their eagerly-awaited first deal, a USD210m first strategic minority investment in the Export Trading Group (ETG), an agricultural... Read more about Carlyle Team up for First SSA Deal Comments Quick view
Investing in Agriculture: Invest in Markets and Know How, Too Wednesday, 24 October 2012 Cape Business News published an article on the investment potential in Africa’s food and agribusiness sector. For the private equity industry in sub Saharan Africa – which is increasingly interested in both agriculture and agroprocessing –, the comments... Read more about Investing in Agriculture: Invest in Markets and Know How, Too Comments Quick view	Kenya’s Britak to set up Real Estate PE Fund Wednesday, 22 August 2012 More money for real estate: Kenyan investment firm British American Investment Company (Britak) Ltd are launching a USD100m private equity fund for investments in the region’s real estate sector. According to Britak’s managing director, Edwin Dande, the company aims to raise 15% of the fund from own resources and ‘friends... Read more about Kenya’s Britak to set up Real Estate PE Fund Comments Quick view

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