3i Group
Other Business Names:
- Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp [ICFC]
- Finance for Industry
- 3i Plc
- Investors in Industry
- Bank of England
- Piercy, Lord
- Kinross, John, Lord Kinross
- Finance Corp for Industry
- 3i Group
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Financial services
Private equity / venture capital financing
Notes:
Traces origins to Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp [ICFC], established in 1945 by Bank of England with funding from commercial banks to provide long term investment finance to small and medium sized businesses. Lord Piercy and (Lord) John Kinross led business with distinction in early years. By 1950s largest provider of venture capital to unquoted UK companies. 1973 acquired Finance Corp for Industry, established in 1945 to provide long term finance to large companies, and renamed Finance for Industry. 1983 renamed Investors in Industry (3i). 3i Group established in 1987 when banks disposed of their shareholdings. 1994 floated as 3i Plc. Continues in 2010 as an internationally spread venture capital business
Publications:
- 3i. Fifty years of investing in business by Coopey, Richard, & Donald Clarke
- 'Corporate governance, management and British venture capital since 1945' in R Fitzgerald & E Abe (eds), Development of Corporate Governance in Japan and Britain by Coopey, Richard
- Evolution of private equity. Corporate restructuring in the UK, c1945-2010 by Toms, Steven, Nick Wilson & Mike Wright
- Fifty Years in the City. Financing small business by Kinross, John
- First venture capitalist. Financing development in Britain after 1945. The case of ICFC/3I by Coopey, Richard
- ICFC, 1945-1961 by Kinross, John, & Alan Butt-Philip
- ICFC Revisited by Tew, Brian
- Scotland 'a dead loss'. The Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp and the Scottish banks, 1945-65 by Johnman, Lewis, & Hugh Murphy
- The MacMillan Gap and the shortage of risk capital by Piercy, Lord
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp [ICFC]
- Finance for Industry
- 3i Plc
- Investors in Industry
- Bank of England
- Piercy, Lord
- Kinross, John, Lord Kinross
- Finance Corp for Industry
- 3i Group
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Financial services Private equity / venture capital financing
Notes:
Traces origins to Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp [ICFC], established in 1945 by Bank of England with funding from commercial banks to provide long term investment finance to small and medium sized businesses. Lord Piercy and (Lord) John Kinross led business with distinction in early years. By 1950s largest provider of venture capital to unquoted UK companies. 1973 acquired Finance Corp for Industry, established in 1945 to provide long term finance to large companies, and renamed Finance for Industry. 1983 renamed Investors in Industry (3i). 3i Group established in 1987 when banks disposed of their shareholdings. 1994 floated as 3i Plc. Continues in 2010 as an internationally spread venture capital businessPublications:
- 3i. Fifty years of investing in business by Coopey, Richard, & Donald Clarke
- 'Corporate governance, management and British venture capital since 1945' in R Fitzgerald & E Abe (eds), Development of Corporate Governance in Japan and Britain by Coopey, Richard
- Evolution of private equity. Corporate restructuring in the UK, c1945-2010 by Toms, Steven, Nick Wilson & Mike Wright
- Fifty Years in the City. Financing small business by Kinross, John
- First venture capitalist. Financing development in Britain after 1945. The case of ICFC/3I by Coopey, Richard
- ICFC, 1945-1961 by Kinross, John, & Alan Butt-Philip
- ICFC Revisited by Tew, Brian
- Scotland 'a dead loss'. The Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp and the Scottish banks, 1945-65 by Johnman, Lewis, & Hugh Murphy
- The MacMillan Gap and the shortage of risk capital by Piercy, Lord