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eYantra Industries Limited, a Hyderabad-based corporate gifts and brand merchandising company, has raised $7.8 million (approximately Rs 35.4 crore) in a second round of PE funding led by Argonaut Private Equity. This Series B funding also saw Chennai-based Ventureeast Proactive maintaining its pro-rata investment, which was $2.1 million (Rs 9.5 crore) in March 2008 and $1 million (Rs 4.54 crore) in September 2008, into eYantra. “We plan to utilise 40 per cent of the Series B funding to seal three acquisition deals, which will broadbase our presence in the corporate merchandising sector, besides enabling us to diversify into online product customisation and basic office supplies space. The remaining fund would be used to equip our 1.1-million T-shirts capacity per year facility with technologies laser-embossing and 3D sublimation by May this year,” eYantra Industries managing director Phani N Raj, told Business Standard. […]
Janalakshmi Financial Services, a Bangalore-based NBFC Microfinance Institution (MFI) promoted by Ramesh Ramanathan, has announced the closure of its Series B funding of $10 million. This round was led by Treeline Asia Master Fund (Singapore), a hedge fund based out of Hong Kong and Singapore. Bellwether Microfinance Fund, an existing investor in the company, also participated in this round. Narayan Ramachandran, who recently relinquished his position as country head of Morgan Stanley India, also invested in Janalakshmi in this round in his personal capacity and has recently joined Janalakshmi’s board. Grameen Capital India acted as the sole advisor to Janalakshmi for this deal. […]
IL&FS Investment Managers, a private equity arm of IL&FS Ltd, has acquired a 10% stake in The Mobile Store, an Essar group firm, for Rs100 crore, a senior executive from the retail chain said. The stake sale values Mobile Store, a mobile handsets and accessories retail chain, at Rs1,000 crore, added this person who did not want to be identified. A spokesperson for the Essar group confirmed the transaction but declined to elaborate any further. The chain, managed by Rewant Ruia, a scion of the Ruia family and son of Ravi Ruia, vice-chairman of the group, has been on an expansion spree. […]
Mayfield India Fund and SIDBIVenture today announced a new investment in Fourcee Infrastructure Equipment Pvt. Ltd. (Fourcee). Under the terms of the investment, Mayfield India Fund and SIDBIVenture will invest Rs.50 crore in Fourcee to expand their tank terminals, add more uniquely designed containers and grow their infrastructure. This new investment reflects Mayfield India Fund's investment theme of adding value to growth stage companies in the consumer and infrastructure segment. The alliance comes at a time when the industry has shown consistent growth, even in these challenging economic times. Currently, Fourcee is the only company focused on providing end to end logistics solution for liquid cargo through road and railways using its own specialized designed containers. Mayfield India's and SIDBIVenture's investment provides an exciting opportunity for Fourcee to expand its footprint and offer unique logistic solutions in India […]
Private equity (PE) players in India have offloaded stakes worth USD 757 million in the first two months of this year driven by a significant recovery in the stock markets and hopes of continuation of this trend, believe experts. According to VCCEdge, the financial research platform of VCCircle, January 2010 saw 13 exits worth USD 282 million, while February witnessed as many as 10 worth USD 475 million. “PE funds are under pressure to make some exits before they set out to raise new funds. They will continue to use every opportunity available to exit as long as they see a good return,” […]
Private equity investments in India's logistics services sector are set to rise as it gears up to improve transportation – with costs among the most prohibitive in the world – and boost related infrastructure bottlenecks. The last four years have seen considerable growth in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in logistics, ports, warehouses and container freight stations while Free Trade Warehousing Zones (FTWZ), freight stations, cold chains and captive spin-offs such as auto and retail logistics are seen as attractive targets now. While analysts expect logistics to be among the top five sectors for PE investments in India in the near term, deal sizes will likely be around $20-$25 million, which is where most planned PE ticket sizes converge. […]
Indian diversified conglomerate Siva Group on Wednesday said that it has bought a 50% stake in the Norway-based glacial water company Isklar for around $22 million, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Lotus Venture. “This present acquisition reinforces the vision of Siva Group and we will look forward to expand operations of the brand in other international markets,” Siva Group chief executive Vaidyanathan Srinivasan told PTI. He said that Isklar was established as a joint venture between Sabco, a Middle East-based water bottler and Norwegian firm Jova Holdings. After the transaction, Isklar would become a joint venture company with the Indian Siva Group's holding at 50%, with Sabco and Jova Holdings jointly commanding the remaining stake. […]
Independent News & Media has sold 23.5 million ordinary shares in Jagran Prakashan Limited (“JPL”) on the Bombay and National Stock Exchanges in India. This sale represents approximately 7.8% of the issued share capital of JPL and reduces INM's holding in JPL to 5.7% (previously 13.5%). INM said this evening that the proceeds from this share sale were approximately €42m, which will be used to pay down bank debt. Having originally invested €28.5m to acquire its stake in 2005, following this share sale, INM's remaining holding in JPL is worth about €33m at the current market price. In addition, INM has received disposal proceeds of approx. €64m from a combination of this disposal and its disposal in July 2009. […]
India is ranked among the top three investment destinations for private equity (PE) firms in the world, as per a report by consulting firm Bain & Company. The US, one of the worst affected by the global financial crisis, leads the table as the top investment location for PE funds followed by China, the report said. India recovered sharply ahead of most other economies from the slowdown that hit markets in 2008. The report pointed out that India is emerging as an attractive investment market for PE firms as an increasing number of family-owned businesses are turning to outside investors to raise funds. […]
Aditya Birla Capital Advisors, the private equity (PE) arm of the Aditya Birla Financial Services Group, will close Fund I, its first fund, this month raising about Rs 800 crore. It had earlier announced its first closure at Rs 675 crore by January. The firm had invested Rs 50 crore last month in Anupam Industries Ltd, a Gujarat-based makers of material handling equipment. Aditya Birla Capital is the first PE arm of an Indian corporate group to close the debut fund successfully. Tata Group and Reliance ADA Group, are in the process of raising their debut PE funds. Tata Capital expects to close the fund-raising for its $350-400 million PE fund in the next six months. Reliance Equity Advisors, the PE arm of Reliance ADAG, was expected to close its first Rs 1,500-crore fund last year. […]
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