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Optimum Group is a printer of self-adhesive labels, banding and shrink sleeves, primarily serving the food and retail market. The Group operates through five printing facilities, of which four in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.

Optimum is active in the faster-growing segments within the Benelux labelling market, which is estimated to be worth approximately €700 million. In particular, the Group focuses on the food labelling market, which has grown by over 5% year-on-year. Optimum has a broad offering but is looking to expand its technological capabilities, such as inkjet technology, and end-market coverage in the food, beverage, chemicals, pharmaceutical and logistics sectors.

Since its inception in 1974, Studienkreis has developed into one of the leading providers of tutoring services on the German market.

Operating a dense network of over 1,000 learning centres, Studienkreis offers small group tutoring to c. 60,000 primary and secondary school students across Germany, covering all common subjects as well as special preparatory courses for pre graduation exams. The Company has further developed a true online offering, comprising the Studienkreis App supporting students with their homework and tutoring schedule.

Renowned for its high quality tutoring services as well as proven learning concept – developed and refined over 40 years, Studienkreis benefits from high brand awareness and customer satisfaction in the German market and has continuously been certified by various testing institutes.

Debitor Inkasso is a German mass debt collection agency focused on recovering overdue claims and debts on behalf of its clients, primarily in the e-commerce/social media, insurance and publishing industries.

With a highly automated and continuously refined collection process as well as a broad communication platform (including modern communication channels such as email, WhatsApp and SMS), Debitor Inkasso acts as a link between its customers and their debtors, and is renowned as a reliable and trustworthy partner in the sector.

LINXIS Group is a global leading manufacturer of industrial equipment for the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and dairy industries.

Founded in 1988, the Group offers state-of-the-art service and solutions through its six companies. LINXIS’s strength stems from its global footprint, strong focus on innovation and R&D and industry-leading product designs which provide maximum value to their customers.

Third Bridge is a fast-growing primary research provider with a global footprint. The company provides its clients with unique insights into companies and markets through access to industry experts and market research. By leveraging its internal expert base and utilising its research analysts, Third Bridge can identify the most appropriate experts based on the client needs.
 
Serving a client base of over 300 customers, including private equity funds, consulting firms, hedge funds and corporates, Third Bridge has a global footprint, with six offices covering America, Asia and Europe. Since inception in 2007, the company has doubled its turnover every two years, and now employs more than 550 people.

Founded in 1970, Pinard Emballages specialises in the design, development and manufacturing of high-end plastic bottles mainly for the cosmetics, fragrance and personal care markets. Its product portfolio mainly comprises standard plastic bottles as well as custom bottles tailored to clients’ specific needs.

The Company is recognised as a trusted supplier to several French as well as and internationally prestige brands because of its technical know-how, product quality and service level. Managed by brothers Thomas and Pierre-Olivier Pinard, the family business employs approximately 90 people and operates two production facilities and a logistics site close to Oyonnax, in the heart of France’s “plastic valley”.

Colisée is a leading provider of nursing home and homecare services.

With more than 90 nursing home facilities and 70 home care services agencies, the group has developed a geographical footprint across France, Italy, Spain, and more recently in China. In those two business segments, Colisée employs more than 6,700 people.

Founded in 1994, Messerschmitt Systems has gained a reputation for combining system integration and product design, providing its clients with cutting-edge solutions which increase guest comfort and save energy.

The company’s multifunctional ‘Room Management Systems’ and innovative ‘Access Control Systems’ are trusted by more than 2,000 hotels worldwide.

Founded by Hartmut Messerschmitt, the company has grown into a leader within its niche with a fully integrated value chain from development, engineering and manufacturing to supply, installation and the related aftersales market.

ZytoService is one of the largest industrially organised §13 AMG  (‘Arzneimittelgesetz’) certified compounders for patient-individualised infusions applied mainly in oncology treatment in Germany.

ZytoService is based in Hamburg, where it runs a state-of-the-art compounding facility.

As the original inventor of the manufacturing technology commonly used in the production of granite sinks, SCHOCK has gained a reputation for innovation, quality and technological excellence. The company has over 90 patents and a 21% global market share in granite kitchen sinks.
 
Based on a quartz-acryl composite developed by SCHOCK, the company’s premium product is three times as hard as natural granite and superior in product performance to sinks made from other materials.
 
SCHOCK is headquartered in Regen, Bavaria, and employs approximately 400 people.

APOSAN was founded in 1991 with the purpose to service homecare patients through the compounding of individualised infusible and injectable medication. Since then, the company has evolved to an integrated full-range pharmaceutical homecare supplier with its own manufacturing capacities and a dedicated key account management and homecare nurses team to generate and support its growing nationwide patient base.

The APOSAN group of companies is organised in three main business segments: pharmaceutical homecare, providing services to patients that require long-term infusion to diseases; classical homecare, providing standard enteral nutrition solutions as well as selected standard medical devices; and ophthalmic injectables.

APOSAN is headquartered in Cologne, Germany, and serves over 10,000 patients per year.

Founded in 2008 with the ambition to offer an alternative way of buying and selling residential property, I@D is a fast-growing digital platform offering a large range of value-added support services to independent real estate agents.

The company has demonstrated a stellar track record of organic growth since inception and has grown to become the largest network in France with ca. 3,200 local agents and over 11,800 transactions intermediated during 2015.

Ellab is a leading global supplier of solutions for measuring, recording, monitoring and validating critical parameters of thermal processing, selling its products in over 65 countries across the globe.

The company offers a wide product range of high-precision systems for temperature, pressure and humidity monitoring and validation based on either data loggers or wired thermocouple instruments.

Ellab’s products are used by the pharmaceutical and food industry as well as hospitals, where accurate and complete supporting validation documentation is essential.

Netel is a leading Nordic service provider for communication and electrical networks, offering services ranging from planning and project management to design and maintenance.

With its project management focus, extensive sub-contractor network, and entrepreneurial heritage and culture, the company acts as a collaborative partner to telecom operators, network owners, property owners, construction companies, housing companies and cooperative housing associations.

Headquartered in Stockholm, Netel has around 340 employees and generated pro forma revenue of approximately MSEK 1,500 in 2015.

OpenSolution is a leading Nordic payment solution provider. Headquartered in Gothenburg, the company offers a full service product and software portfolio to its client base, including restaurants, casinos, arenas and other customer verticals.

With its in-house development capabilities and strong focus on innovation, OpenSolution can offer the entire value chain of payment solutions, making it a single point of contact for >8,000 customers throughout Scandinavia.

Established over 30 years ago as a family business, Marle has become a major company in the orthopaedic industry. The company provides specialised manufacturing services for the production of a wide range of hip, knee, shoulder, spine and extremities implants as well as orthopaedic instruments of the highest quality.

Covering the full scope of the manufacturing value chain and benefiting from remarkable R&D capabilities, Marle acts as a strategic partner to medical technology companies worldwide and delivers over 1 million products annually. Marle serves orthopaedic implant OEMs across Europe, the US, Latin America, Russia, Japan, Korea and China.

Headquartered in Stockholm, Touristry is a market leading operator of sightseeing buses and boats in the Nordic capitals as well as provider of tourism related services. The Company operates brands such as Red Buses and Red Sightseeing, and provides services to over 1.3 million tourists per year.

TeleComputing is a leading provider of centralised IT operations, outsourcing and system integration in the Nordic SME market. As IT environments are becoming increasingly complex and critical to business management, TeleComputing has successfully built a leading position by making IT easy for its customers, offering flexible and scalable IT operations solutions.

The TeleComputing group employs approximately 900 people across eight locations in four countries and serves more than 800 corporate customers with over 80,000 end-users in the Nordic region.

Salad Signature is a leading branded food franchise in the fresh categories of spreads, dips and salads, selling its products through its own brands and private label.

The Company’s core markets are the Netherlands and Belgium, with an emerging international presence in Northern Europe (incl. France, Scandinavia, UK, Germany and Poland).

In 2015, Salad Signature generated revenue of €176 million with approximately 490 employees.  

CID LINES is a leading developer and producer of cleaning agents and disinfectants for the agricultural, food, vehicle care and institutional sectors.

With a network of over 750 distributors and importers, the company exports its solutions to more than 90 countries. CID LINES offers its customers a complete product range, integrated solutions and know-how combined with technical advice.

Over the past years, CID LINES has continued to realise strong growth across all of its segments, supported by an increasing awareness of food safety and use of hygiene products to guarantee safe food throughout the food chain.

The Company is headquartered in Belgium, with an additional production site in Poland to serve Eastern Europe.

Since its establishment in 1919 in Belgium and 1975 in France, Auxiga Group has been a bank guarantee expert, drawing up structured and flexible credit facilities using inventories as collateral.

The Group operates through four business units: Auxiga and Sofigarant, which are the leading providers of pledge inventory services in France, Warrant, which provides the same services in Belgium and Auxicontrol, a specialist in asset control and floor check services.

Auxiga Group provides an unparalleled know-how and a complete range of services for each phase of pledge financing, from the setup of the security agreement to the dayto-day monitoring of the pledged assets.

In 2012, the merger of EuroDough and L'Alsacienne de Pâtes Ménagères (APM) created Cérélia Group, bringing together nearly 40 years of experience. Today, Cérélia is a leading European manufacturer of ready-to-use dough mainly through private label and via two own brands, generating sales of EUR 212 million in 2014.

Cérélia Group has a wide product range that includes rolled pie dough, pizza dough, exotic dough, pastries, cake batter and organic dough, selling its products both through private labels and its own brands Croustipate and Pop! Bakery. In total the company has four production plants and 650 employees.

Cérélia Group is headquarted in Liévin, France.

L+M is the merger of Løgismose and Meyer which are two of the strongest and most recognised high-end food brands in Denmark offering a wide range of gourmet food products and services across various channels including retail distribution, food service, B2B wholesale and selected own outlets 

L+M is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Exxelia Group is a leading designer and manufacturer of customised passive components. For more than 50 years, Exxelia has been developing products with the highest level of reliability to meet the requirements of aerospace, defence, rail, medical, oil & gas and telecommunications blue-chip customers. The group’s ability to produce products that combine extreme technical performance, quality and flawless reliability has established Exxelia as an international leader within its field.

Exxelia Group markets its products under various brands to reflect its multi-technology positioning: Eurofarad, Dearborn, Microspire, Firadec, Sic Safco, Temex Ceramics, Astema and Vertura. All together the group employs over 1,200 employees, and operates in Europe, the US, Asia and Africa.

Exxelia is headquarted in Paris, France.

Transnorm is a global market leader for high performance conveying modules and components that are used in diverse end markets such as the parcel, distribution/e-commerce and airports industries.

Founded in 1957, Transnorm manufactures high performance conveying components that are integral to many highly sophisticated automated systems. Historically best known for its belt curves, Transnorm’s various products are now used in many high-speed distribution systems, parcel centers and in airport baggage handling systems across the globe. The Transnorm Group covers one of the most attractive segments of the automated logistics value chain, benefiting from long-term global growth trends such as e-commerce.

Headquartered in Harsum, Germany, the Group has additional overseas manufacturing entities in Arlington (Texas, USA) as well as in Kluang (Malaysia).

VPS is a leading provider of fuel testing and inspection services, working with ship owners, managers, charterers and other customers around the world. IK acquired VPS as a carve out from Norwegian company DNV (Det Norske Veritas Group).

The company operates within two main segments, Fuel Quality Testing (FQT) and Bunker Quantity Surveys (BQS).

With four fuel laboratories strategically located in Fujairah, Houston, Rotterdam and Singapore, and with access to 150 key ports worldwide for bunker quantity surveys as well as round-the-clock technical assistance. VPS has the expertise and infrastructure to provide ship owners with cost-efficient fuel solutions and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Known and respected throughout the maritime industry, it has a commanding market share in its niche and operates in an expanding industry with an attractive and scalable business model.

VPS is headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands. 

Ampelmann is a high-tech offshore company focusing on development, construction and rental of offshore access solutions. The company was founded in 2008 as a spin-off of the Delft University of Technology.

The core technology is the Ampelmann system, a motion compensated gangway system that allows easy, fast and safe access from a moving vessel to offshore structures, even in high wave conditions. With a doubling of the fleet every year since 2008, Ampelmann currently operates approximately 35 systems world-wide transferring offshore crew from various types of vessels to offshore oil & gas platforms, offshore turbines, FPSO's and all other fixed and floating structures at sea.

Ampelmann  is headquartered in Delft,  Netherlands.

Hansen Protection AS is a leading provider of specialist survival suits for extreme weather conditions and sole provider of rental transport suits to energy companies in the Norwegian Continental Shelf region.

The company operates a rental and service model based out of six helicopter sites in Norway, one in Denmark and two in Canada. Additional business activities include specialised survival suits for personal protection (immersion suits, work suits, life jackets), specialty textile products, mainly for the oil and gas, defence and agriculture segment, and marine products such as boat canopies.

Hansen Protection is headquartered in Moss, Norway.

In the field of hydraulics, pneumatics, instrumentation and controls, DGI Group has built up a leading position in the Oil & Gas, Maritime & Dredging and High-End Machine Building industries. Because of its specific knowledge and effective working method, DGI supplies worldwide on request for many tier 1 clients the complete management for their projects: from advising, customer specific system engineering & procurement to installing, commissioning and maintenance.

Since 1879 DGI has grown into a modern, innovative company with branches in the Netherlands (headquarter), Europe, the US, Middle East and Asia.