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Investcorp, a Bahrain-based investment firm, acquired Scandinavia's luxury retailer Georg Jensen for $140 million.

With a history that spans over 100 years, Georg Jensen is a global luxury brand that designs, manufactures and distributes jewellery, watches, fine silverware and homeware.

Investcorp is listed in the Middle East Investors Directory with the code OR30.

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Investcorp, the Bahrain-based investment firm, has acquired two firms from Spain and US during the summer for a total of $550 million.

The first acquisition was Rogers Minnesota-based Archway, a provider of marketing logistics and fulfilment services in North America, for approximately $300 million. (The company operates over four million square feet of warehouse facilities across 14 major metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada.) The second acquisition was Spain's Esmalglass, a supplier of intermediate products for the ceramics industry for $250 million.

Investcorp is listed in the Middle East Investors Directory with the code OR30.

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Bahrain investment firm, Investcorp, announced that its portfolio online payment company, Skrill (formerly Moneybookers), has agreed to acquire 100% of paysafecard.com, an Austrian provider of prepaid vouchers for around $178 million.

Paysafecard is the fifth investment undertaken by Investcorp and its portfolio companies in Europe over the past six months.

Investcorp is listed in the Middle East Investors Directory with the code OR30.

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Bahraini investment firms Venture Capital Bank and Bank Alkhair announced the acquisition of 65% of Turkish firm Goknur Foods for $100 million.

Goknur is one of the largest producers of fruit juice concentrate and fruit puree in Turkey and sells to beverage makers in 60 countries.

Venture Capital Bank Bahrain is listed in the Middle East Investors Directory with the code BFD126

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Bahrian-based investment firm Investcorp announced its three most recent equity investments in the US real estate market, which brings its real estate investments this year to $300 million.

Investcorp has just closed on its purchase of the seven-story Park Tower office complex in Long Beach, California for an undisclosed price. It follows Investcorp's $37 million acquisition of the Bethesda Health City building in Boynton Beach, Florida and of the Ashford, a 221 unit garden and townhouse community composed of 15 residential buildings located in Atlanta, Georgia.

Investcorp is listed in the Middle East Investors Directory with the code OR30.

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