UK - Smedvig appoints new chairman to portfolio company Streetcar
Smedvig Capital has appointed Sir Trevor Chinn as the new non-executive chairman of Streetcar, the UK’s largest pay-as-you-go car club and a recent addition to the Smedvig portfolio. Smedvig provided Streetcar with £6.4m of expansion funding in March 2007.
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