Eurocape Property Finance
Eurocape has a number of funds which provide secured bridging and development finance to property developers mainly in South Africa and EU accession countries.  Eurocape provides an annual return of 9.85% p.a. to investors.  Acorn is the operator and trustee of all the Eurocape funds.

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Boar Lane Fund
CGU House contains freehold offices, which are located in the core office area of Leeds city centre.  The property was purchased by Lanebridge Property fund and a portion of the interest was acquired by investors through Acorn Boar Lane Trust Limited Partnership. CGU House was sold for GBP 17.5 million in June 2006 providing the Limited Partners with a return of around 42%.

Heanor Fund
Heanor Retail Park is a retail warehouse park in Derbyshire comprising 8 units and 200 parking spaces.  Acorn introduced investors to the Fund. The park was sold for GBP 15.35 million in May 2006 providing a return to investors of around 164%.

West Five Centre Fund
The West Five Centre is a retail unit located on the A40 in West London. It was purchased by Lanebridge Property, who then sold down some of the A equity to Acorn investors via the Acorn West Five Centre Limited Partnership. The West Five Centre was sold in October 2006 for GBP 49 million providing the Limited Partners with a return of around 30%.

Chemistry Communications Group plc
Chemistry Communications is an independent marketing communications agency specialising in customer relationship management. It delivers tailored solutions to clients, ranging from building databases to designing sophisticated permission-based marketing campaigns. Chemistry Communications was admitted to PLUS in January 2001.

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NetServices plc
NetServices Plc is a leading e-services ISP that specialises in convergent technologies capable of supporting, voice, data, video and image services using ADSL, Dialup and fixed circuits. NetServices was admitted to AIM in March 2006.

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Winning Pitch plc
Winning Pitch delivers practical high impact solutions proven to create sustainable growth in sales and business development performance. Services include business growth consultancy, sales coaching and strategy, innovation support, international growth, entrepreneurial development, marketing and personal development. Winning Pitch was admitted to PLUS in December 2007.

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2 Save Energy plc
2 Save Energy plc develops and sells energy saving devices including Cent @ Meter, an energy saving device that records the cost of electric usage dynamically. 

Blade Interactive Studios
Blade Interactive is an independent games developer with particular success in the “snooker games” field.  It also has a software engine which saves development time and cost when developing games levels and has developed revolutionary software, which mimics water. 

Camwood Limited
Camwood is the UK's leading Enterprise application packager, and provides centralised application management, on a global scale, to help companies address business critical issues such as disaster recovery and business efficiency.

Cheshire Dispersion Company Limited
The development of the company's wet grinding technology has resulted in the production of The MICROTRON. This state-of-the-art bead mill delivers uniform sub-micron dispersions, often approaching primary particle sizes.

Fourth Hospitality
Fourth Hospitality supplies on-demand business intelligence solutions for the hospitality industry.  They deliver integrated, customisable solutions that are easy to learn and that quickly realise a return on investment.

Knowledge Powered Solutions Group plc
Knowledge Powered Solutions develops and markets intelligent software solutions for use in help desk, call centre, e-learning and corporate information management environments.

MorganAsh Limited
MorganAsh collect risk information on life and health insurance applicants as an outsource service to the industry using telephone interviews and non-invasive medical tests.

Thermotec/TAC
Thermotech/TAC install and maintain fire protection systems for retailers as well as installing and maintaining air conditioning systems.

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Vitalize Health Products
Vitalize distributes cosmeceutical products - cosmetics with medicinal properties such as anti-ageing creams, and neutraceutical products – pharmaceutical products with nutritional properties such as Glucasan+ which helps support the immune system.

XpertRule Software
XpertRule develops business rules automation software, which is used by clients worldwide.  Additionally, it assists with the implementation of rules automation projects.

Absolutely Training plc
Absolutely Training provides online financial training to the investment and retail banking sector and offers a range of examination and competency courses designed to satisfy clients' financial training requirements.

Altrix Healthcare plc
Altrix Healthcare is the market leader in providing testing services to the drug rehabilitation market and has significant growth plans to develop these services within prisons, workplace and insurance sectors.

Cresta Court Hotel
Cresta Court is a contemporary stylish hotel in Altrincham located  5 miles from Manchester airport. The hotel offers 136 bedrooms and includes function reception rooms, meeting rooms and conferencing facilities, which can hold up to 400 delegates.

Design Blue Limited
Design Blue is the company behind d3o, a revolutionary ‘smart' material that reacts to a high-speed impact by instantaneously changing its material properties from soft and flexible to stiff and protective. Applications include foot, body and head protection built into sportswear.  

The CI Group Holdings plc
The CI Group provides a sophisticated online credit insurance management system for banks, factors, invoice discounters and corporations. The system is integrated into a leading American "AAA" insurance company, which also underwrites the credit insurance. The CI Group was acquired by Cenhoco 107 Limited in November 2006.

j4b plc
j4b is an information publishing, technology and business services company  providing business to business research, marketing, communication services and consultancy and technical services to public and private sector clients. j4b was admitted to PLUS in August 2001 and went private in May 2008.

printing.com plc
printing.com is a supplier of printing to the SME and SOHO markets through its established design and printing business and its chain of high street sales stores and franchises. Printing.com was admitted to PLUS in September 2000 and transferred to AIM in August 2004.

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Tridelta plc
Tridelta specialises in the development, manufacturing and marketing of diagnostic products for the animal health care industry. Tridelta was admitted to PLUS in August 2003 and acquired by Accura Pharma (now Accura Animal Health) in June 2007.

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