Investing in brands

Our investment approach
In the last five years, we have invested in more than 20 consumer businesses across the globe.

We focus our consumer investing in four key areas:

Consumer Goods: Powerful brands capable of internationalisation and innovation, commanding and protecting attractive margins.

Retail: Retailers with well-developed customer propositions, strong retail brands and well-defined target markets. We support store rollout, international expansion, and the development of new channels to market.

Food and Drink: Products which meet consumers’ growing demand for convenience and indulgence. Businesses that recognise the increasing importance of health, food provenance and resource sustainability.

Leisure:  We focus on restaurant and hospitality companies with roll-out potential, niche travel providers and others who can benefit from leisure’s growing share of consumer spend.

When you partner with us, you can:

• Access our experience and network in 12 countries across Europe, Asia and North America. Our consumer team has in-depth knowledge of local businesses and potential partners for new market entry.
• Work with business leaders from across the sector. We can introduce you to highly capable and experienced individuals, who advise (and sometimes join) the businesses we partner.

Our partnership approach is individual and personal. It starts before we invest, as we spend time understanding the business and its key people, continuing through our investment right up to the eventual exit.  We aim to help you accelerate the growth of a strong and successful business with sound financials and an exciting future. We have identified key value levers to support the acceleration in the growth of our investee companies in the consumer sector:

• International expansion
• Online growth
• Brand development