Anders Invest Food & Agri Fonds

Portfolio Portfolio Involved Yield

The Food & Agri sector is facing a significant challenge: providing a growing world population with reliable, affordable and honest food.

This challenge requires the Food & Agri sector to transition. Anders Invest contributes to this transition by long-term investing in companies that aim to make a difference in the Food & Agri sector. An attractive financial return is important, but we also aim for a “sustainability impact” return.

Portfolio

The Anders Invest Food & Agri fund expects to raise approximately € 10 million in the first fundraising round, depending on deal flow. The fund aims to make investments in companies across the total Food & Agri value chain; “from farm to fork”. The focus will be on companies in the middle of the chain; that work in processing, trade and sales of products. This focus across the value chain means we will look for opportunities in the Netherlands and across borders. Fund management significantly co-invests with their own equity in the fund.

Involved

Anders Invest Fund Management adds value to the portfolio companies by taking a hands-on approach. Moreover, involve our broad investor network to contribute with their knowledge and network to the portfolio companies.

Yield

The fund will diversify across healthy and growing businesses. As a result, we expect to realize healthy financial returns against manageable risks. We will create value for our portfolio companies by taking a hands-on approach and realizing synergies between the different portfolio companies.

A key aspect of the Food & Agri fund is that we do not solely focus on financial return. Together with our portfolio companies, we will also set goals to realize a sustainability impact. Here we aim to align this impact with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)

Visscher Caravelle is expanding

On August 26, 2020, the industrial fund participation Visscher Caravelle acquired UGF Sud from Portugal. The accessory activities of UGF Industry (UGF OES) in France were also acquired. Both parts have been added to the VanProtech division of Visscher Caravelle. This division is mainly active in the production of Van Protection Panels and accessories that protect the inside of delivery vans. UGF Sud and UGF OES produce Van Protection Panels for PSA, Opel and Toyota. The combined turnover of these two activities is approximately € 5 million. UGF Sud will continue to manufacture and sell from Portugal as an independent group company. Delivery is made directly to 2 PSA factories in the region. UGF OES will be transferred to VanProtech Poland and fully integrated therein. With this acquisition, Visscher Caravelle Automotive can expand its Van Protection activities by 70%. It also means a substantial expansion of its customer portfolio within this activity, a great next step in the strategic plan to become the European market leader in Van Protection products for car manufacturers. Anders Invest stepped in 2 years ago to realize these and other growth plans together with the owner's family. The turnover of the company with 1,880 employees worldwide was € 161 million in 2019. Tiemen van Dijk, CEO of Visscher Caravelle: “As management, we are very happy with this transaction. While the crisis is still under us, Visscher Caravelle has managed to stay on course and that is what makes this transaction possible. We would like to thank all Visscher Caravelle employees for their contribution to this. ”

Anders Invest participates in Banzo

On March 31, 2021, Anders Invest realized a 60% participation in Banzo from Hoogeveen. The company designs and supplies recycling installations. Banzo has a turnover of € 15-20 million and employs more than 35 permanent employees. For Anders Invest, it is the 21st holding in its industry fund. Founded in 1947, Banzo ( website ) designs, assembles, installs and maintains recycling facilities for all major Dutch garbage processors. The company specializes in so-called post-separation installations, in which residual waste (gray waste flow), green waste or construction / demolition waste is subdivided into separate waste flows that can then be further upgraded to valuable residual flows and raw materials with additional reprocessing installations. In this way, waste processors are able to reduce waste incineration and Banzo contributes to the cradle-to-cradle use of raw materials. The Netherlands is at the forefront in the approach to recycling, changing legislation in the European Union that prevents landfilling and incineration of waste offers opportunities for Banzo abroad. Anders Invest has acquired its interest from the current owner and general manager Mr Marcel Kroon. He took over Banzo in 2011 and the company has grown significantly since then. After the takeover, the focus will mainly be on further professionalizing the company and making use of the international expansion opportunities that the company has. Mr Kroon will remain with the company for an indefinite period as shareholder and general manager and looks forward to furthering the company together with the team in Hoogeveen and Anders Invest.

We are always looking for new investments and investors.

Investors can subscribe to the fund during new fundraising rounds. Depending on deal flow, we organize one to two fundraising rounds per year, in which both new and existing investors can participate with a minimal initial investment of € 100.000.

As investor, you will be part of a fund cooperation, which is a typical and fiscally attractive structure for private equity funds. This means that it is possible to take advantage of the participation exemption, also for smaller investments. It is possible to exit the fund by selling fund participation shares to other investors. Anders Invest facilitates this process so that it does not have to sell companies or real estate.