{"id":314,"date":"2013-10-01T07:07:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T07:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=314"},"modified":"2013-10-01T07:07:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T07:07:13","slug":"cinven-private-equity-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Cinven: Private Equity &#038; Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cinven<\/strong> is an investment firm, that is a private equity investor that invests in 6 sectors:<br \/>\nBusiness Services, Consumer, <em><strong>Financial Services<\/strong><\/em>, Healthcare, Industrials and Telecoms, Media and Technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinven.com\/\">www.cinven.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some famous names have been owned by Cinven: Eutelsat, Hamleys of Regent Street, NCP Car Parks, Sema, Tetley Tea.<br \/>\nToday it owns <strong>Pizza Express<\/strong> via its ownership of <em><strong>Gondola<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>More recently it bought <em><strong>Heidelberger Leben<\/strong><\/em> from <strong>Lloyds Banking Group<\/strong>, a German Life Insurer that was owned via <strong>Halifax Bank of Scotland<\/strong>, a member of the <em><strong>Lloyds Banking Group<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"Heidelberg Leben Announcement\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cinven.com\/mediacentre\/default.asp?mediaid=366\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cinven.com\/mediacentre\/default.asp?mediaid=366<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>That was a <strong>\u20ac300 million<\/strong> investment from Cinven, one can see, it is entering the world of<strong> financial services<\/strong> with investments in the UK too in <em><strong>Life Assurance from Guardian Financial Services<\/strong> <\/em>and life policies from <em><strong>Phoenix Life<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1977, with money from the Coal Board Pension Fund, Barclays Pension Fund and Railway Pensions, it invests in private equity buy outs, with a minimum investment of \u00a3100 million. The name Cinven comes from Coal Investments.<br \/>\nFinal thoughts, if one eats Pizza from Pizza Express, it is funding the pensions of UK coal miners, retired railway workers and Barclays workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinven is an investment firm, that is a private equity investor that invests in 6 sectors: Business Services, Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrials and Telecoms, Media and Technology. www.cinven.com Some famous names have been owned by Cinven: Eutelsat, Hamleys of Regent Street, NCP Car Parks, Sema, Tetley Tea. Today it owns Pizza Express via its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}