We are very longterm (10, 20, 30 years and longer) oriented investors: Family Business Owners that think in Generations. We provide patient capital.<\/p>\n
We look for cooperation based on trust. We feel happy in minority positions.<\/p>\n
7 criteria for our investments:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. The company has annual profits of at least 3 million Euros (sum of reported profit and increase in earnings power). We love to invest. We invest in all industries that we understand.<\/p>\n Examples of our investments:<\/strong><\/p>\n AlarmForce, Canadian Alarmsystem-Operator We are very longterm (10, 20, 30 years and longer) oriented investors: Family Business Owners that think in Generations. We provide patient capital. We look for cooperation based on trust. We feel happy in minority positions. 7 criteria for our investments: 1. The company has annual profits of at least 3 million Euros (sum of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":273,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n2. Proven consistent profitability (we are not interested in long-term projections or turnaround situations).
\n3. The management love their job, not the money.
\n4. The company has a return on equity higher than 10% and at the same time has no or little debt.
\n5. The company has an existing management (we can”t provide managers outside subscription driven publishing business)
\n6. Competitive advantage must be defendable for 10 or more years.
\n7. The purchase price has to be fixed (we don”t want to waste neither our nor the seller”s time talking about a business – not even preliminary – when there”s no information about the price)<\/p>\n
\nAgora Business Publications, British newsletter publisher
\nCembre, Italian Manufacturer of crimping and cutting tools
\nDoccheck, German Healthcare Marketing
\nEQS Group, News Agency for Investor Relations
\nGesco AG, Holding company for medium-sized industrial companies
\nGrafenia PLC, British Internet Print Service
\nGruppo MutuiOnline, Italian Internet-based Mortgage Broker
\nInfas Holding AG, German marketresearch institute and photo agency
\nKromi, German Toolmanagement
\nMedical Columbus, German supplier for electronic procurement and data standardisation in the hospital market
\nMincon Group Plc., Irish producer of drill equipment for the mining industry
\nPSI AG, software systems for energy suppliers, industry and infrastructure
\nR. Stahl AG, Explosion protection
\nRentrop & Straton, Rumanian publisher
\nThermador, French Importer of SanitaryGoods
\nVNR Verlag fuer die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG, German publisher for business owners
\nWashtec, German Car Wash Manufacturer
\nWydawnictwo Wiedza i Praktyka, Polish publisher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"