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Kuwaiti firm Alshaya has acquired 60 La Senza UK stores from the administrators of the lingerie chain.

Alshaya said it planned to invest about 100 million pounds in the business. It acquired the company from Lion Capital, a private equity firm.

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Kuwait Finance House, an investment firm from Kuwait, announced that it acquired a warehouse property for logistic services in Sweden for $70 million.

Hallsberg, the city where the property situated, is considered a logistic services hub for the local and international companies for supplying the main Swedish cities and an exporting center to the neighboring Nordic countries. The property with a built up area of 70,000 square meters is leased to Ahsell, a trading and distributing equipments firm, for a long term lease contract.

Kuwait Finance House is listed in the Middle East Investors Directory with the code LIP07.

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Kuwait-based Global Buyout Fund has reached an agreement to acquire a stake in Yargici, an upmarket women's apparel and accessories retailer in Turkey.

Founded in 1978, Yargici is operating in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bodrum and Paris with 23 stores and employs 252 people. As Dubaibeat.com reported before, this is the second acquisition done by the Fund in Turkey this year.

Global Buyout Fund is listed in the Middle East Investors Directory with the code OR25.

Investors from UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain are currently planning to increase investment in the agriculture sector of the Philippines - Emirates 24/7 is reporting.

Saudi investors are investing in joint ventures to produce several products in about 5,000 hectares. Bahrain currently produces bananas in 1,000 hectares of land in the Philippines and Kuwait investors are looking at 1,000 acres for rice cultivation.

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Global Capital Management, the alternative asset management arm of Global Investment House (Global), announced acquiring 80% of Bıçakcılar Tıbbi Cihazlar a manufacturer of medical equipments in Turkey.

Bıçakcılar exports its products to more than 70 countries. Global Capital Management is managing five private equity funds, four real estate funds and seven hedge funds and is listed in the Middle East Investors Directory with the code OR25.

Their full press release follows

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