21st February 2018
Bridges invests in Innovate to promote healthier eating for schoolchildren
Innovate is a fast-growing school catering business that serves 120 schools in England Healthier eating in schools drives better behaviour and attainment, while helping to combat the growing scourge of childhood obesity Bridges’ investment will support the management team to expand to new schools Innovate has committed to become an ‘Impact Organisation’, promoting healthier lifestyles […]
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30th May 2018
Growth Business: The essential guide to raising private equity
Growth Business presents a guide for scale-up businesses on how to access growth capital. The article includes contributions from a variety of businesses that have successfully raised funding from private equity – including Innovate Services, a fast-growing specialist catering company that provides healthy, nutritious school meals. The Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds invested in Innovate earlier […]
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30th May 2018
Growth Business: The essential guide to raising private equity
In this guide, Growth Business explains how scale-up businesses can tackle an all-important issue: raising private equity. Hearing directly from a variety of businesses that have raised private equity funds, the article discusses how the UK market has bounced back from Brexit and what the best way of raising private equity funds. It also profiles […]
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30th May 2018
Growth Business: The essential guide to raising private equity
In this guide, Growth Business explains how scale-up businesses can tackle an all-important issue: raising private equity. Hearing directly from a variety of businesses that have raised private equity funds, the article discusses how the UK market has bounced back from Brexit and what the best way of raising private equity funds. It also profiles […]
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30th May 2018
Growth Business: The essential guide to raising private equity
Growth Business: The essential guide to raising private equity In this guide, Growth Business explains how scale-up businesses can tackle an all-important issue: raising private equity. Hearing directly from a variety of businesses that have raised private equity funds, the article discusses how the UK market has bounced back from Brexit and what the best […]
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5th June 2018
Growth Business: The essential guide to raising private equity
Growth Business presents a guide for scale-up businesses on how to access growth capital. The article includes contributions from a variety of businesses that have successfully raised funding from private equity – including Innovate Services, a fast-growing specialist catering company that provides healthy, nutritious school meals. The Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds invested in Innovate earlier […]
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5th June 2018
Growth Business: The essential guide to raising private equity
Growth Business presents a guide for scale-up businesses on how to access growth capital. The article includes contributions from a variety of businesses that have successfully raised funding from private equity – including Innovate Services, a fast-growing specialist catering company that provides healthy, nutritious school meals. The Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds invested in Innovate earlier […]
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20th December 2017
Bridges’ Annual Impact Report 2017
2017 has been another busy year for Bridges: we closed our largest ever fund, launched pioneering new strategies in both the UK and the US, made a number of exciting new investments across the platform, and even changed our name: to Bridges Fund Management (to better reflect the breadth of our platform). Within the portfolio, […]
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9th January 2018
Bridges-backed Viva Gym acquires Fitness Hut to create Iberian low-cost market leader
Our Spanish portfolio company Viva Gym and Portugal’s Fitness Hut, two of Europe’s leading low-cost gym groups, are joining forces Together they will constitute the largest low-cost gym group in Iberia, with almost 200,000 members and revenues of more than €50m The combined group will focus on driving better access to affordable health and fitness, […]
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9th January 2018
Real Deals: Bridges-backed Viva Gym acquires Fitness Hut
Our Spanish portfolio company Viva Gym has joined forces with Portugal’s Fitness Hut to create the largest low-cost gym group in Iberia, with almost 200,000 members and revenues of more than €50m. Real Deals covers the deal here.
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15th June 2017
Bridges sells innovative green hotel Qbic to Cerberus Capital Management
Bridges Fund Management (“Bridges”), the specialist sustainable and impact investor, and Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (“Cerberus”) today announced the sale of Qbic Hotel to an affiliate of Cerberus. Bridges first invested in Qbic in 2012, via its Sustainable Growth Fund III. This investment allowed for the transformation of a disused 56,000 sq. ft. office building […]
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15th June 2017
In the press: Bridges sells Qbic hotel to Cerberus Capital Management
Bridges recently announced the sale of Qbic Hotel to Cerberus Capital Management. Qbic is based around the innovative ‘Qbi’ concept. Developed in Amsterdam, the Qbi is a pre-fabricated bedroom made primarily from recycled materials that can be installed within an existing structure. This makes it possible to build a hotel much more quickly and efficiently […]
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