FirstRock sets one-year timeline to list dental supplier Optimum Trading

Premier Private Equity Limited, PPE, has taken a majority stake in Optimum Trading Limited, a distributor of dental and medical supplies in Jamaica. The terms of the takeover were not disclosed. But the private equity firm is already indicating that it first plans to expand the company’s product portfolio then list the dental supplier on […]

FirstRock acquires Optimum Trading

FIRSTROCK Private Equity (PPE) has acquired Optimum Trading, a distributor of medical and dental supplies in Jamaica. The acquisition now brings to three the number of companies PPE has acquired in the last 24 months and brings the entity for the first time into the health-care sector. “Optimum was selected as it meets PPE’s strategic […]

Jamaican equity firm buys into soap and candle making company in The Bahamas

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) — The Jamaica-based private equity firm Premier Private Equity Limited has acquired a 26 per cent stake in the local hand-made soap and candle company, My Ocean, under a deal brokered by the Bahamas-based company Simplified Lending. “The minority equity position by a regional player in The Bahamas is evidence of the […]

Premier Private Equity acquires stake in Bahamian company

Private equity firm Premier Private Equity Limited, out of Barbados, has entered into a definitive agreement with Bahamian manufacturer and retailer My Ocean Limited to purchase a minority interest in the company. Premier Private Equity is a member of First Rock Group but is not an affiliate or a subsidiary of FirstRock Capital Holdings, which is […]