30 Dec 2011 09:38

BETTER CAPITAL LIMITED
30 December 2011
ACQUISITION
Better Capital Limited is pleased to announce that further to BECAP Fund LP's (the "Fund") conditional commitment announced on 6 July 2011, on 29 December 2011 the Fund completed the acquisition of the UK and Irish business of Spicers, from Unipapel SA, immediately after its acquisition of the entire pan-European Spicers business from DS Smith Plc.
Spicers is an office products and stationery supplier, which had UK revenue of ÂŁ343 million for the year ended April 2010 (1).
The Fund has committed a total of ÂŁ40 million to a majority-owned special purpose vehicle set up to effect the transaction.
(1) Source: the audited financial statements
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