Corporate Factors

A leading Northern European mid-market buy-out firm.

Established in 1986, Aberdeen Asset Managers Private Equity is the private equity division of listed investment management company Aberdeen Asset Management PLC. Through both organic growth and strategic acquisition, the business has grown to its present size, with over £252.4 million* of funds under management, and a team of over forty one professionals providing the full range of private equity services to our client base, which comprises Limited Partnerships, Investment Trusts, VCTs, Local Authority Pension Funds and specialist Investment Companies. Through our Private Equity and Growth Capital investment teams, we specialise in investing between £1 million and £20 million in UK based unquoted companies. Our dedicated Portfolio Management team is responsible for monitoring and managing portfolios of more than one hundred companies, and our Operations team provides our client base with a complete accounting, reporting and company secretarial back office service. We have nationwide coverage through our offices in Aberdeen, Birmingham, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, London and Manchester, which provides us with an intimate knowledge of local corporate finance markets, and also enables our teams to be entirely mobile, moving around the country to source the best deals, wherever they may be. We pride ourselves on our professionalism, our integrity, our track record and our ability to form excellent working relationships, both with management teams of investee companies as well as with professional advisers and introducers throughout the country. Aberdeen Asset Managers Private Equity is a full member of the British Venture Capital Association. Hugh Little Hugh Little Managing Director * Source, Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited, 31 December 2007

AFL was formed in 2000 by the amalgamation of a consultancy and software house that had both been trading since 1989. AFL personnel have worked with private equity and venture capital organisations since 1995. AFL has offices at Tower Bridge, London, where it employs 17 people. AFL has a strategic partnership with EFT, a Brussels based company that distributes and implements AFL's software in the Benelux and France. AFL has customers with over €30bn funds under management. With customers in all sectors of the private equity and venture capital industry AFL has comprehensive software functionality and meets a wide variety of requirements in organisaitons of all sizes.

We partner with innovative entrepreneurs in the consumer and leisure space, providing intellectual and financial capital, operational expertise, and a rich network of contacts to help build scalable, successful businesses. We are more than just investors. We believe our true value-add is the ongoing nurturing and support we provide post-investment. Our investment strategy, approach and culture differentiate us from other sources of capital and uniquely position us to help accelerate growth and drive value within each of our portfolio companies. exclusive sector focus: We are focused exclusively on developing exciting, innovative brands in the consumer and leisure space. By focusing on a specific market niche we are able to offer deep and thorough understanding from a team with specific relevant experience growth capital: We help accelerate growth in promising young companies. We provide flexible capital which enables these businesses to quickly build upon their initial success and develop into widely recognized, global brands. active partner: We only invest in companies where we believe we can add unique insight and value. Beyond capital we bring experienced resource through our own team and our network to help to develop a strategy for accelerated growth and to create a more robust and scalable operational infrastructure. entrepreneurial culture: We have consciously built a team of people with a balance of experience in both established organisations and early stage, high growth businesses. As a result, we understand the challenges businesses face as they scale and we are well positioned to respond quickly with constructive and candid solutions.

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About AVCAL The Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) is the national association that represents the venture capital industry's participants, promotes the industry and encourages investment in growing business enterprises. Membership comprises venture capital firms, institutional investors, banks, incubators, angels, corporate advisors, accountants, lawyers, government bodies, academic institutions and other service providers to the industry. AVCAL's venture capital members represent most of the active venture capital firms. These firms provide capital for seed and pre-seed ventures, early stage companies, later stage expansion, and finance for management buyouts and buy-ins of established companies. There are almost 60 investor members with $10 billion invested or available for investment.

The BVCA - The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association is the industry body for the UK private equity and venture capital industry. Our membership of well over 400 members represents the overwhelming number of UK-based private equity and venture capital firms and their advisers. The BVCA has 25 years of experience representing the UK industry, which currently accounts for 57% of the whole of the European market, to government, the European Commission and Parliament, the media, regulatory and other statutory bodies at home, across Europe and around the world. We promote the industry to entrepreneurs and investors, as well as provide services and best practice standards to our members.

The IVCA is the representative body of the venture capital industry in Ireland. The association was established in 1985 to represent the views of its members and to promote the Irish venture capital industry. We seek to encourage co-operation and best practices within the industry and to facilitate those seeking venture capital. The IVCA also continuously works with those individuals and organisations committed to fostering an economic and regulatory climate conducive to the growth and development of an enterprising economy. The IVCA represents members who professionally manage over 95% of the EUR1.25 billion managed by venture capital funds on the island. Our membership also includes accountancy firms, corporate financiers, lawyers, consultants and financial institutions. We hope you find the content of interest and we are grateful for the support of our members and their guests at our evening seminars and other social events.