VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Avon stock price has declined because it refused to go with the flow of the modern day industry where a lot of businesses make use of social media and other means to promote their products to drawing customers and generate larger revenue.

KKR is about to lose its cash investment in Samson Resources worth $4.1 billion from its $7.2 billion buyout four years ago. The unexpected and prolonged downward move of oil and gas pushed Samson to file for Chapter 11.

Cerberus Capital Management LP is seeking more than $3 billion for its latest flagship private equity fund to invest in distressed assets such as non-performing loans and ailing companies that need to be restructured, people familiar with the matter said.

New York, US-based private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP decided to exit its entire majority interest in Japan-based property operator Kokusai Kogyo Co in a deal valued between $1.25 billion to $1.34 billion.

Japan-based railway and hotel group Seibu Holdings Inc and top shareholder Cerberus Capital Management LP agreed on a Tokyo listing for the Japanese firm in April, according to sources familiar with the situation.

American firearms maker Freedom Group plans to raise $175 million from Wall Street financial institutions, according to a Reuters report. Cerberus Capital Management, which tried to exit the company last year, earlier opted for a $200 million mezzanine debt to pay off Freedom Group's investors.

An article by the International Business Times provided an insight on the growing trend of conscious investing among private equity firms, which based their investment decisions on environmental, social and corporate governance (or ESG) factors.

U.S. hedge fund Cerberus has bought a 1 billion euro ($1.4 billion) book of commercial real estate loans from Lloyds Banking Group at a 21 percent discount to their nominal value, the UK bank said on Friday.

Sources disclosed to Reuters that Cerberus Capital Management LP and other buyout firms were interested in acquiring Safeway Inc.

Known institutional investor Cerberus Capital Management is studying its options to determine if it would make a bid for BlackBerry.

Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. announced in an internal memo that it could be selling the company to another supermarket operator or a private equity firm.

Cerberus stake falls behind after US private equity fund launched an unsolicited bid.