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3i: Fifty Years Investing in Industry
Richard Coopey and Donald Clarke
472 pages
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16 pp colour plates, halftones, line figures, tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-828944-9
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Hardback
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15 June 1995
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- The first published history of this key investment institution
3i (Investors in Industry, and formerly the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation, etc.) is Britain's leading venture capital company. Founded in 1945 as a result of a combination of pressures and counter-pressures from political parties, Whitehall, the Bank of England, and the clearing banks, the organization has played a significant role in post-war investment banking and industrial development.
The first part of the book traces its history from the early years of post-war reconstruction and the role played by Piercy and Kinross, through the years of
consolidation, to the higher-profile years of the change of name and style and the 1994 flotation. The second part offers an inside view of the workings of this unique institution - the controllers, 3i's role in developing MBOs, methods of assessing risk and return, its relationship with capital markets, etc.
During its first 50 years 3i has invested in numerous well known and successful companies - many of these are detailed in the text (British Caledonian, Oxford Instruments, Laura Ashley, etc.). The book is also elegantly and innovatively designed, making good use of the well known 3i cartoons.Readership: Academics interested in the financing of business and the venture capital
industry, and post-war industrial policy and investment.
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Richard Coopey, Research Fellow, Business History Unit, London School of Economics, and Donald Clarke, former Finance Director, 3i
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"Coopey and Clarke's book exposes the dilemma which has always faced 3i in trying to decide how its uniqueness fits in with the burgeoning venture capital industry that grew up all around it in the 1980s." - UK Venture Capital Journal
"Informative, well written and mercifully briefer than some recent block-buster company histories." - The Business Economist
"This is a book for the specialist interested in 3i. But it also offers the student of Britain's post-war industrial development an insight into the capital markets which have thrived as that industrial base has declined." - Financial Times
"Clarke, a former finance director of 3i, gives the "insider's view" in essays which cover a number of themes, including innovations in investment, accounting and resource funding ... a splendid account of a pioneering organisation." - Business History
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Introduction
Part IR Coopey:
1: Keeping Government out of the Banking Business
2: The Piercy Style
3: Establishing Independence
4: Consolidation and Diversification
5: The 1970s FFI
6: The The 1980s Expansion and Change
7: 3i: Remaking the Image
8: Back to the Core
Part IID Clarke:
9: 3i and Innovator
10: Investment Capital v Venture Capital
11: Raising Funds/3i's Financial Policies
12: Management Style and Strategic Direction
13: Diversification
14: The Tax Case
15: The International Dimension
16: 3i in the Thatcher Years
17: 3i's Contribution to the Economy - An Alternative Model
Postscript
Appendices
Glossary
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