Despite the recent recession and financial crisis the UK has emerged as Europe’s prime destination for Chinese investment. Chinese investors invested twice as much into the UK since 2012 as they did over the past seven years. Some estimates believe that that this could even be more than the total from the previous three decades. […]
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Mike Campbell, Managing Director of Campbell Ventures was interviewed this evening by the BBC Look North news team. The heathcare company Smith & Nephew plc announced that it would be making up to 140 staff at its Hull factory redundant today as part of a cost reduction programme to transfer some of its manufacturing to […]
Read MoreThe price multiple paid by Chinese, Japanese and Indian buyers for European businesses has increased from 3.3 times EBITDA in 2010 to 9.9 times EBITDA in 2012. This is particularly significant as global multiples have fallen over this period. The Chinese have the greatest appetite for Western assets with M&A activity by Chinese companies higher […]
Read MoreCampbell Ventures has been invited to be the founder international member of the Chinese government’s national health, safety and rescue project steering committee. The objective of the project is to introduce advanced Western health and safety product manufacturers into China, and to create a competitive and innovative health, safety and rescue products manufacturing and supply chain industry in […]
Read MoreDubbed as “China’s Silicon Valley” the country’s largest high-tech park in west Beijing is not only home to Chinese high-tech companies like Lenovo, Baidu and Sohu.com, it is also the China headquarters of leading global companies like Google, Microsoft and Intel. Part of the Chinese government’s plans to develop an innovative economy, the State Council […]
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