Sectors

Wine

 

The world of wine is today our primary space of activity particularly in Italy and France where we are working with a number of wineries and operators to execute on a range of acquisitions, divestments and growth projects. Wine is ever growing and evolving with a number of important macro trends emerging on consumer behaviours, sustainability and channel developments. The opportunity exist today for further consolidation in a market characterised by a large number of small wineries and where there is increasing interest from a wider range of financial and strategic operators. We operate on the entire value chain from agricultural, components, to white label businesses and branded businesses. We help our clients prepare, execute and negotiate deals and opportunities relating to growth driven partnerships, product extension acquisitions and also to timely, adequately and gradually plan for succession.

Agri

 

Agriculture is particularly interesting to us in light of a number of macro trends including in the areas of biologic growing and organic farming in an ever discerning ultimate customer base. We expect increased attention and volume of activity in this area in the background of demographic development and the need to make increasingly efficient use of energy and water resources to achieve better yields. We are also looking at processing and supply chain aspects of vertically integrated businesses where agriculture is an important component. This is today a less mature part of our business activity but we expect to build a solid pipeline of opportunities in this space.

Agri-Tech

 

We are well plugged-in in the segment and assist a number of start-up companies operating in key fields that are more closely linked to the land and the product aspects of traditional farming activities. In particularly we support companies offering technologies and solutions in the space of precision farming, traceability and transparency technologies, Here we look at supporting funding rounds, providing commercial and strategic insight and where appropriate matchmaking between technologies and some of the Agri and Wine companies we partner with.

Food & Beverage

 

We have some transaction and business experience in the broader food and beverage sectors in particular in spirits, healthy and energy drinks. We will be looking at this segment with particular interest in the context of players currently operating in multiple parts of the value chain or potentially capable of doing so.