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...The transaction comes at a time of growing interest among buyout funds for software companies, including KKR’s acquisition of Exact Software this year and the sale of Iris Software Group by HG last year....
...IRI, for example, is one such service that, among other things, tracks the purchases you make at stores via loyalty cards....
...It should not, of course, be confused with the eerily similar shade Blue Iris, which took the title in 2008....
...These days you have to be as much a sociologist as retailer in thinking up enjoyable ways for people to shop, says José Carlos González-Hurtado, president of international for IRI, a consultancy, and a former...
...Those remaining in the auction include advertising group WPP, which is working with private equity firm General Atlantic; New Mountain Capital, which owns rival data analysis business IRI; and buyout groups...
...His replacement was announced on Thursday as Iris Knobloch, chairman of Warner Bros in France....
...Now, thanks to a Rbs12bn ($380m) investment from Roman Abramovich’s asset management company Millhouse LLC, the island stands to become both a focal point for contemporary culture – an area of art galleries...
...HgCapital reaped a large profit in 2007 when it sold Iris Software and Computer Software Group to H&F in a £470m deal....
...Open Road has amassed old titles from authors including Pat Conroy, Iris Murdoch, William Styron and Alice Walker; claimed a top-30 Kindle hit with a new novel, Mary Glickman’s Home in the Morning; and shared...
...Harry Eyres: Naples: a city in need of mercy The Iris Project: www.irismagazine.org Classics for All: www.classicsforall.com...
...Just four weeks later HG merged its new £91m acquisition with Iris Software and sold the entity to Hellman and Friedman for £500m....
...Other US private equity groups absent from the list include Hellman & Friedman – which bought Iris, the UK software group with more than 1,000 staff, for £500m last year – and JC Flowers, which has been...
...Hellman & Friedman, the private equity group, bought both CSG and Iris Software from HgCapital, the UK mid-market private equity group, in a deal with an enterprise value of £500m....
...It follows Monday’s private equity-backed merger of Computer Services Group, the UK back-office software company, and Iris Software....
...The first – Connex – started running freight trains from eastern France to Germany in June....
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