Consumer

We target distinctive consumer businesses with strong growth potential and work in partnership to build robust and powerful brands.

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.

We believe the key value levers to support the acceleration in the growth of our investee companies in the consumer sector are: International expansion, Online growth and Brand development.

When you partner with us, you can access our experience and network in 13 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Our consumer team has in-depth knowledge of local businesses and potential partners for new market entry and we 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.