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Cinven Cinven Partners is to rebrand its recently-acquired chain of 26 Bupa hospitals under the Spire Healthcare logo, and is considering plans to move into cosmetic surgery, home-based diagnostic testing and chemotherapy. 13-Sep-2007 Bupa is to sell 26 hospitals to Cinven for £1.44bn, with the transfer of 5,800 staff, in order to focus on insurance, care homes and home healthcare. 19-Jun-2007 Gondola, the chain of about 520 pizza and pasta restaurants, is to be acquired by private equity firm Cinven for £559m. 09-Oct-2006 Cinven has sold NCP, the car park operator, to 3i for £555m, and 3i will continue the group's transformation into a general transport services business. 13-Jul-2005 Cinven is to sell its McKechnie aerospace and engineering business and its Dynacast die-cast components business to Melrose for £429m. 21-Apr-2005 BC Partners is to sell Partnerships in Care, the chain of mental hospitals with more than 2,000 staff, to Cinven for about £560m. 30-Mar-2005 Dunlop Slazenger, the sports products company, has been sold by Cinven to Sports World International for an estimated £40m. 06-Feb-2004 Cinven and Candover are in negotiations to acquire the BertelsmannSpringer scientific publishing division of Bertelsmann of Germany, in a £700m deal. 13-May-2003 Cinven has sold the Odeon chain of 97 cinemas to WestLB and the Entertainment Group for £431m. 10-Mar-2003 Gala, the operator of 166 bingo clubs and 28 casinos, has been acquired by venture capital groups Cinven and Candover for £1.24bn. 10-Feb-2003 Cinven has put the Odeon cinema chain up for sale with a valuation of £450m. 03-Feb-2003 Cendant has agreed to sell the NCP chain of 535 car parks to Cinven and Royal Bank of Scotland for £820m. 23-May-2002 Cinven is planning to buy the trade and health publications of Vivendi Universal of France for about £1.3bn. 28-Aug-2001 BP is to sell two Burmah Castrol chemical businesses - Foseco in the West Midlands and Chem-Trend in the US - to Cinven for £240m. 13-Jul-2001 Cinven has acquired the photo finishing business of GrandVision of France, which includes 472 stores and 2,900 staff, for £174m. 10-May-2001 Cinven is selling General Hospitals, the private hospitals group, to private equity firm BC Partners for £1.2bn. 04-Sep-2000 Rank is selling its chain of 75 Odeon cinemas to Cinven for £280m, and the business will be merged with Cinven's 57 ABC cinemas. 22-Feb-2000 Cinven, the private equity group, is planning to open offices in Paris and Frankfurt later this year. 26-Mar-1999 Coats Viyella is selling its Dynacast precision engineering business to Cinven, the venture capitalist, for £322m. 18-Feb-1999 CVC and Cinven, the UK venture capital groups, have won the auction to acquire the newly-named Kappa Packaging business from KNP of the Netherlands, in a £1bn deal. 12-May-1998 Cinven, the venture capital concern, has raised £1.5bn to invest in buy-outs, with about half earmarked for UK deals and the remainder for continental Europe. 05-May-1998 Reed Elsevier is close to agreeing to a £900m management buy-out of its IPC Magazines business, in a deal being negotiated with the Cinven venture capital group. 29-Dec-1997 Hillsdown is selling seven food products and packaging businesses to Cinven, the venture capital concern, for £53.6m, following its decision to exit from red meat and focus on poultry, chilled and ambient foods. 01-Oct-1997 Gehe is selling the Macarthy drugs manufacturing business of Lloyds Chemists to a management team backed by Cinven, the private equity specialist, for £55.5m. 11-Aug-1997 Cinven, the private equity specialist, is acquiring the UK and French healthcare interests of Compagnie Generale des Eaux, including General Healthcare Group of the UK which will be merged with Amicus Healthcare. 03-Jul-1997 Unilever has sold Unipath's microbiology business to Cinven, the venture capitalist, for undisclosed terms, and the Basingstoke-based business will be renamed Oxoid. 09-Jan-1997 Caradon is believed to be preparing to sell 15 engineering and distribution businesses to CINVen for £190m so that it can focus on its building materials business. 28-Aug-1996 CINVen, the venture capitalist, and Argos are now thought to be among the bidders for the H Samuel and Ernest Jones jewellery chains being sold by Signet. 09-Apr-1996 CINVen has bought Dunlop Slazenger, the sports equipment concern, from BTR for £300m. 20-Dec-1995 British Coal's venture capital unit, CINVen, has been sold to a management team. 27-Oct-1995 More from the Health Care sector Related pages: Claimar Care Group South Ayrshire Council South Shropshire District Council Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust Diploma Cinven website: www.cinven.com The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. Click here for further details Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008