Walgreens Boots Alliance in the US has kicked off the sales process for its Boots international retail chemists as fresh buyout firms, including Sycamore Partners, consider bids, according to sources. The US company is sending out preliminary information on the...
Blackstone has amassed $11bn to buy companies in Asia after raising its second private-equity fund for the region, nearly tripling its previous pool of capital raised in 2018. The world’s largest alternative asset manager raised $6.4 billion and will receive an...
Archant, the publisher of dozens of titles including the Eastern Daily Press, London’s Ham & High Express and the former owner of the anti-Brexit weekly the New European, is up for sale only 18 months after being sold to a private equity group. The Norwich-based...
Global investment major Blackstone Group has set up a separate India-dedicated platform, Horizon Industrial Parks, to house its 24 million sq ft logistics and warehousing assets and support its rapidly expanding logistics footprint across the country. The new platform...
Blackstone is on the lookout for buying opportunities from the global stock market slide that has started the year, particularly in hard-hit sectors such as ecommerce, cloud computing and cyber security. Jonathan Gray, president of the world’s biggest alternative... 