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Merseyside Special Investment Fund provides loans and equity packages from £3,000-£4million to businesses based in, or prepared to relocate to, Merseyside.</description>
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            <title>AFM Invests £2.5m into ULive through MSIF’s Liverpool Seed Fund</title>
            <description>Alliance Fund Managers (AFM) has invested £2.5m through the MSIF Liverpool Seed Fund into a company set up by the University of Liverpool.</description>
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            <title>MSIF Pulls off Simultaneous Exit and Investment in £16m Deal</title>
            <description>Merseyside Special Investment Fund’s (MSIF) Venture Fund has invested £3m as part of a funding package to refinance Liverpool-based nutritional products company, Vitaflo.</description>
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            <title>Merseyside Special Investment Fund and Liverpool John Moores University launch new joint funding programme</title>
            <description>Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF) have joined forces to launch a new programme to help turn academic ideas into commercial businesses.</description>
            <link>http://www.msif.co.uk/newsanddeals/newsstories/msif-ljmu.htm</link>
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            <title>MSIF Investment Director Scoops Top Accolade at Insider Liverpool Professional Awards</title>
            <description>Malcolm Jones, investment director of MSIF's £20m Mezzanine Fund received a Lifetime Achievement Award at Insider's Liverpool Professional Awards which took place last night.</description>
            <link>http://www.msif.co.uk/newsanddeals/newsstories/malcolm-award.htm</link>
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            <title>Sterling Scaffolding undergoes Management Buy Out in £1m Deal</title>
            <description>A Wirral scaffolding business has undergone a management buy-out in £1m deal which includes funding from Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF).&lt;br /&gt;
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Sterling Scaffolding Services Limited based in Birkenhead supplies scaffolding to customers in the new housing market.  Clients include Redrow, Rushmon Homes and Countryside Properties.</description>
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            <title>MSIF’s Mezzanine Investment Keeps Business Moving for Sovex</title>
            <description>MSIF’s Mezzanine Investment Keeps Business Moving for Sovex&lt;br /&gt;
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A Wirral company which specialises in parcel handling machinery is undergoing major expansion after £400k cash injection from Merseyside Special Investment Fund’s £20m Mezzanine Fund.</description>
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            <title>Expansion for Mersey Printing Firm</title>
            <description>A Merseyside printing firm is expanding with a funding package totalling more than £250k including support from Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF).</description>
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            <title>AE Direct Mail Scoops 2008 Kickstart Award</title>
            <description>Direct Mail company AE Direct Mail has won the 2008 Kickstart Awards run by Merseyside Special Investment Fund and the Liverpool ECHO.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Aintree-based business which is run by husband and wife team Andrew and Elis Evers, scooped the £10k cash prize and up to £10k* consultancy at the Awards bash which took place at the new Hard Day’s Night Hotel.</description>
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