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06 december 2022

Rien Wisse starting at Anders Invest

As of January 1, 2023, Rien Wisse will start as Investment Director at Anders Invest Industrial Fund. He has 20 years of experience as CEO of BUVA, an innovative company in the field of hinges and locks for doors and windows, home ventilation and sustainable heating concepts. Due to the transition from product sales to sales of energy concepts, BUVA grew in its time from € 25 to almost € 70 million in turnover per year.
Rien brings relevant operational experience from the results achieved at BUVA:
Digitization: strong transition to digital processes, for example EDI with customers and suppliers, ERP implementation, controlling machines at another location, remote working for everyone, etc.
Production automation: converted to 24/6, of which manned 8 hours a day. Rest of the day BUVA is a “dark factory”.
Logistics concept: at BUVA everything is delivered on trolleys. Pallets, cardboard, plastic have been abolished as much as possible.

Before that, Rien worked for more than 10 years at Alcoa Bouw Groep in management positions of companies that supplied the construction industry. His background is in HTS Architecture and Business Administration. Within the Industry Fund he will be responsible for companies from the construction cluster: Bincx (including Hutten Metaal), Bos Machines, Topvorm and VIOS. Together with the other 12 industry professionals, Rien will further expand the Anders Invest Industrial Fund. We look forward to his arrival.

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Anders Invest acquires Van Meirvenne Anders Invest took over wire drawing company Van Meirvenne from Beveren (Belgium) this week. In 2022, the company achieved a turnover of approximately € 50 million and employs more than 20 employees. Since June 2022, Anders Invest has been a shareholder in wire drawing company Noord Nederlandse Draad Industrie from Dokkum. The family business was founded in 1955 and the third generation is now active with director and shareholder Nick van Meirvenne. Van Meirvenne uses its extensive and highly automated machine park to produce rods and coils of cold-drawn wire steel. The products are used in concrete reinforcement and customers are mainly concrete producers and construction companies in Belgium and the Netherlands. In June 2022, Anders Invest acquired the shares in wire drawing company North Dutch Wire Industry (NNDI) from Dokkum. NNDI and Van Meirvenne are now jointly part of Draad Industrie Holding B.V. and will collaborate intensively where appropriate. For example, NNDI and Van Meirvenne can use each other's production capacity and knowledge. The two companies offer a broad portfolio of wire products; from bare drawn wire to reinforcing steel. The shares in Van Meirvenne have been taken over from Nick van Meirvenne. Together with co-director Dieter Goeminne, he commits himself for the long term as a minority shareholder and together with the recently appointed director of NNDI, Ernst Dijkstra, they manage the combination of both companies.

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15 march 2023

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Willem Drissen Investment manager Good news! Willem Drissen, who has been working at Anders Invest for almost 5 years now, has received his well-deserved promotion to Investment Manager. Willem is an investment manager at Vormenfabriek (Tilburg) and Brabant Groep (Oosterhout). Congratulations and we hope to work with this topper for many years to come!

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09 march 2023


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