Credit hire operation a success for company doctor

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Credit hire and credit repair company Helphire Group has seen 70% compound growth per year since it was founded in 1992. It now has a workforce of 600, and its market capitalization is $326 million. The company's main sources of income are credit hire, involving car hire for which the innocent victim of an accident is not obliged to pay, and credit repair, with the company arranging for one of its network of bodyshops to repair a car damaged in an accident. The cost is claimed back from the guilty party's insurers. The company is able to earn a 10% margin on the cost of the repairs undertaken.

Management, Company Profile, Traffic accidents, Helphire Group

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Hartley the match-maker sets up Cintex marriage

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Andrew Hartley, director of Kleinwort Benson Development Capital, has played a crucial role in the management buy-in of metal detection equipment maker Cintex. Funding for the 15 million pounds sterling buy-in includes 7.2 million pounds sterling from Kleinwort Benson and 8 million pounds sterling provided by NatWest Markets Acquisition Finance.

Measuring & controlling devices, not elsewhere classified, Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing, Metal Detectors, Electronic Scales & Weighing Eqp, Scale and Balance (except Laboratory) Manufacturing, Scales and balances, exc. laboratory, Instrument industry (Equipment), Usage, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Testing and measuring equipment industry, Leveraged buyouts, Electronic weighing systems, CTAS, Cintex

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Addressing the big issues: while the buoyancy of the M&A market in France gives cause for cheer, attempts to deal with the country's economic problems have met with some resistance

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The French M&A market has been active with a total of 526 deals valued at 4.9 billion pounds sterling in 1995. France is in second place as both a seller and acquirer in a league table of EU cross border acquisitions.The banking sector was responsible for many domestic deals due to restructuring and consolidation.

France, Acquisitions and mergers

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