We invest in winning international growth platforms benefiting from consumer and technology-driven trends.
We focus on companies with excellent customer propositions and international growth potential, likely to be exposed to trends of:
Key focus areas are:
Healthcare is a dynamic sector undergoing significant change. We invest in growth and support our portfolio through organic and acquisition-led development, helping our partners strategically transform their business during our ownership to create better outcomes and generate significant value.
We partner with leading businesses to improve patient and consumer outcomes while speeding time to market and managing cost, from innovation to clinical trial to delivery of care.
Fundamental growth drivers include:
A large market with tailwinds from various megatrends and a sector where we have a long track record of helping businesses grow into global leaders.
We seek businesses with international potential that are typically leaders in their niche and a critical product for their customers.
With global supply-chains and requirements for quality, innovation and fulfilment increasing, we see opportunities to support international, industrial expansion from both a sales and supply-chain perspective.
In particular, we focus on the following areas:
A large, diverse, and growing sector with significant opportunities to build market leadings businesses. We invest in businesses with attractive market dynamics where we see long-term, secular growth and an offering that is highly valued.
Our focus is on businesses which benefit from the digitisation trends and that we can scale organically and/or through buy-and-build. Our core areas of specialism are:
Customer focused jewellery retailer successfully expanded internationally
From a UK exporter to a global market leader, renowned for product quality and innovation
From an owner-managed diversified engineering company to a world-leading testing and inspection specialist for the automotive industry
From a Benelux-based operator to Europe’s largest value-for-money fitness club operator
Transformed from a North American specialist to a market-leading global medical device outsourcing platform
Carve-out of a network of local independent testing laboratories built into a world-class integrated testing business
From a regional leader to a fully integrated global leader of data centre equipment maintenance
Successful international expansion and development of a premium brand of clothing for men, women, and children
From technology leader for mascara brushes to application systems provider to the beauty and healthcare industry
Transformational growth to build a prominent European leader in the fragmented natural consumer healthcare market
Ambitious growing automotive business to a truly global leader in innovative products to improve fuel efficiency
From a Dutch-based business to a global market leader with 3x growth in turnover
From a collection of point solutions to a leading ‘insights to action’ platform for complex ERP environments
From a UK consumer products business to the fifth largest baby accessories business globally
From a family-owned business to a world-class global market leader in hot runners
From a strong, growing mid-market pet food player to a global market-leading premium cat food business
From a Benelux offline retailer to a value-for-money challenger with best-in-class omnichannel capabilities in the north-western European optical retail market
From a German family-run business for clamps to a global market and technology leader for engineered joining technology
From a North American high-quality medical device manufacturer to a globally connected medical provider of mission critical devices
Transformational growth to become the world’s largest provider of life sciences product development and integrated healthcare services
From a European juice manufacturer to a leading European independent bottler of soft drinks for A-brand owners
Created one of the largest independent single-use solutions platforms in the bioprocessing industry through innovation and buy-and-build
Transformed from a state-owned business to a ‘best-in-class’ ferry operator connecting Scandinavia with continental Europe
Invested in the lead service provider in calibration and measurement service solutions in France and, in three years, created a global business
Transformed from a supplier of niche active pharmaceutical ingredients to a fully-integrated speciality pharmaceutical company
