In December 2007 it was announced that GMG and Apax had made a successful bid to buy Emap's business-to-business arm for around £ 1 billion.

In February 2006 the group announced that it had received a preliminary bid approach valuing it at £ 300 million, but the bidder, private equity firm Apax, later withdrew.

In 2005, Apax announced it would acquire middle market leveraged buyout firm Saunders Karp & Megrue to augment its buyout business in the United States Saunders Karp, formerly based in Stamford, Connecticut, was founded in 1989 by Thomas A. Saunders III and Allan W. Karp.

The remainder of the company was taken over by Eden Bidco Ltd, a company incorporated for the purpose of the acquisition by its owners, the private equity investment group Apax and the Guardian Media Group in late March / early April 2008.

Time Warner executives Tom McGrath and Peter Bogner assembled a group of record labels that included its very own Warner Music, EMI Music, Polygram Records and Sony Television along with Frank Otto, Apax Partners, and Austrian producers Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher of DoRo Productions.

Apax raises capital for its investment funds through institutional investors including corporate and public pension funds, university and college endowments, foundations and fund of funds.

In 1991, Apax Partners became the official name for all of its European operations however the U. S. business still operated under the Patricof & Co. name.

In 2000, Patricof & Co. adopted the Apax Partners branding and formalized its affiliation with its European business.

The company had been owned by Apax Partners since the acquisition was closed for £ 489. 4 million ( US $ 890 million ) on 26 May 2005.

The business was financed early on by Internet pioneer David Tabizel of Durlacher and received substantial backing from Apax Partners.

Regent Infection Control ( makers of Biogel surgical gloves and Hibi antiseptics ) was also sold to a business owned by Apax Partners in May 2004 for £ 173 million.

In 2007 Apax sold their investment in the business and in 2008, The Investment Dar company, based in Kuwait, acquired a share of the business.

The Group was renamed Yell in 2000 and BT restructured in 2001 and agreed to sell the Yell directory business to private equity firms Apax Partners and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst ( today operating in Europe as Lion Capital LLP ) for £ 2. 14 billion /$ 3. 5 billion, making it then the largest non-corporate LBO in European history.

Hicks Muse, along with UK-based Apax Partners, bought British Telecom's yellow page directory business Yell Group for roughly $ 3. 5 billion, making it the largest non-corporate LBO in European history.

Apax invests exclusively in certain business sectors including: telecommunications, information technology, retail and consumer products, media, healthcare and financial and business services.

The U. S. business would operate as Apax Partners, Inc.

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As reported in Business Week on May 10, 2010, Apax Partners LLP ’ s HIT Entertainment Ltd. got an extension on a revolving credit by one year to June 1, 2012.

In 1996 Argonaut received external funding from Apax Partners and was listed publicly on the London Stock Exchange in 2000.

Then on 21 December 2005 Somerfield plc was acquired by a consortium consisting of Apax Partners, Barclays Capital and the Tchenguiz Family Trust, at which time the name of the group changed to Somerfield Ltd.

In an early episode Apax ( below ) kidnapped Gor to make him a prize fighter, but since Gor's peaceful nature did not permit him to fight needlessly, Apax experimented on him, turning him into a mindless, raging gigantic King Kong-like gorilla named Gormongous.

Apax Partners is one of the oldest and largest private equity firms operating on an international basis, ranked the seventh largest private equity firm globally.

In that year, Cohen approached Alan Patricof to join them and run the new firm's investments in the U. S. The new firm would be known as Alan Patricof Associates ( APA ) and ultimately come to be known as Apax Partners ( based on a play on Patricof's name: Alan Patricof Associates Cross ( x ) Border ).

The following year, Patricof stepped back from day-to-day management of Apax Partners, Inc., the US arm of the firm to return to his original focus on making venture capital investments in small early-stage companies.

In 2006, Patricof left Apax to form Greycroft Partners which focuses on small early-stage venture capital investments.

In May 2007, Thomson Learning was acquired by Apax Partners and subsequently renamed Cengage Learning in July.

In May 2010, Sophos reached a definitive agreement to sell a majority interest in the company to Apax Partners, a global private equity group.

The wound management products were sold to Medlock Medical Limited ( owned by Apax Partners ) in May 2004.

In March 2007 GMG sold 49. 9 % of Trader Media Group to Apax Partners, in a deal that valued Trader Media Group at £ 1. 35 billion.

2007 was a difficult year for Vueling ; Apax Partners sold their then 21 % stake in the carrier in June of that year, followed by two profit warnings issued in August and October.

As of the end of 2007, Apax had invested in approximately 340 companies in all stages of development.

* Apax Partners in Jermyn Street, London November 2007

PCM was subsequently acquired by British based investment group Apax Partners, which lead to substantial debts and significant problems for the company.

Workers joined Ros Altmann's company pensions campaign blaming Venture Capitalist Apax Partners for having engineered the collapse and Garnier was the first East Midlands MP to question Apax's role.

< td style =" width :“ 74 %”; vertical-align: top ;"> The Danish phone company was acquired by KKR, Apax Partners, Providence Equity Partners and Permira for € 12. 2 billion ($ 15. 3 billion ), which at the time made it the second largest European buyout in history .</ td >

Largely due to declining sales, in 2006, Tommy Hilfiger sold his company for $ 1. 6 billion, or $ 16. 80 a share, to Apax Partners, a private investment company.

GMG has various divisions and joint venture businesses: Guardian News & Media ( the Guardian, the Observer, guardian. co. uk ); GMG Radio ( regional radio stations under the Smooth, Real, and Rock Radio brands ); Trader Media Group ( the Auto Trader magazine and website ), which it owns jointly with private equity firm Apax ); GMG Property Services ( estate agency software providers Vebra and Core, lettings software provider CFP Software, graphic design consultancy The Media Design House and consumer portal ThinkProperty. com ); and Emap, the B2B events, data and publishing company, also jointly owned with Apax.

It is owned by Guardian Media Group ( 50. 1 %) and Apax Partners ( 49. 9 %).

PBS Kids Sprout, a US cable network HIT co-owns with NBCUniversal, PBS, and Sesame Workshop, was not included in the deal, and that stake was retained by Apax.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

But where the core of NATO is concerned, the Secretary of State has not only reiterated the United States' profound attachment to the alliance, `` cornerstone '' of its foreign policy, but has announced that five nuclear submarines will eventually be at NATO's disposal in European waters.

The Texas Aggies got a day off Monday -- a special gift from Coach Jim Myers for its conference victory last Saturday night, but Myers announced that halfback George Hargett, shaken up in the Tech game, would not play against Trinity Saturday.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced yesterday it would reduce the total amount of its payroll by 10 per cent through salary cuts and lay-offs effective at 12:01 A.M. next Saturday.

Before you let loose a howl saying we announced its coming, not once but several times, indeed we did.

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Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.

At the close of the Second World War the British government announced its intention to abolish the penal settlement.

On August 21, 2009 it was announced that the institution had changed its name to Crandall University in honour of Rev.

The following day, on 26 June 2009, the patriarch announced that he would not unveil the Ark after all, but that instead he could attest to its current status.

In September 2006, Acadia University announced its partnership with the Wolfville Tritons Swim Club and the Acadia Masters Swim Club to form the Acadia Swim Club and return competitive swimming to the university after a 14 year hiatus.

On 26 September 2008, the university announced its intention to return swimming to a varsity status in September 2009.

Their lowest point came during the 1964 – 65 season when manager Juan Carlos Lorenzo announced that the club could not pay its players and was unlikely to be able to afford to travel to Vicenza to fulfil its next fixture.

In December 2008, Aston Martin announced that it would cut its 1, 850 workforce by 600.

Responding to industry demands, Aon announced its new fee disclosure policy in 1999, and the company reorganized to focus on buying personal line insurance firms and to integrate its acquisitions.

* Telecom New Zealand — Operated an AMPS / TDMA network in New Zealand from 1987 until 2007 throughout the whole country and the network was renowned for its superb coverage, In 2000 Telecom announced that they would discontinue the AMPS network within 5 years ( 2005 ) to give customers an opportunity to transition to the CDMA2000 and later 1XRTT technologies that replaced it.

NATO announced that its forces had suffered zero combat deaths, and two deaths from an Apache helicopter crash.

On July 2011, Beltelecom announced a plan to raise the capacity of its Internet gateway to Russia by 20Gbit / s by the end of 2011 and announced a tender to provide the service.

In May 2008, the Navy announced new plans to reposition its forces throughout Brazil.

On March 20, 2006, Borland announced its acquisition of Gauntlet Systems, a provider of technology that screens software under development for quality and security.

On November 14, 2006, Borland announced its decision to separate the Developer Tools Group into a wholly owned subsidiary focused on maximizing developer productivity.

In April 2007, Borland announced that it would be relocating its headquarters and R & D facilities to Austin, Texas.