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Weekly Deals and Funds Roundup: 20 September 200620/09/2006. Source: AltAssets. 
 A selection of the latest deals and funds news from across the globe - essential reading for those who need to keep up-to-date with the industry's key developments.
This weekly roundup provides an update on deals and fund activity that did not feature as separate stories in AltAssets' daily news service.
DEALS
Mid-market private equity investment firm Bowmark Capital has acquired Design Objectives, a UK supplier of products to the paper crafts market. Paper crafting is principally the design and decoration of home-made greeting cards, scrapbooks and personal mementos. Design Objectives supplies approximately 2,000 products to both independent and national retailers such as Argos, QVC and WH Smiths. It also publishes the Do-Crafts magazine and associated website. Bowmark Capital specialises in UK mid-market transactions.
Advent Venture Partners has formed a new company, Speciality European Pharma, which will be dedicated to acquiring specialty pharmaceutical prescription products for development and marketing in Europe. Geoff McMillan, formerly of Biofocus, Roche and Elan, has been appointed CEO and Tony Playle, formerly head of European Operations for Aventis, joins the board.
NORD Holding has acquired 70 per cent of the PDS Group in Cologne, Germany. PDS is a systems integrator for mobile data capture systems that are used especially to track and trace goods. Raimund Müller-Rau, the general manager of the company, has retained a 30 per cent stake. The vendor of the share acquired by NORD Holding is MUK Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaft, a joint subsidiary of the Kreissparkasse Köln and the Sparkasse Köln-Bonn.
Private equity investor Gilde Buy-Out Partners has agreed to acquire all the share capital in Arovit Petfood from Portfolio Acquisitions 1. The purchase price has not been disclosed.
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