Kingdom Holding Company

http://www.kingdom.com.sa/

"Kingdom Holding Company

 The World’s Foremost Value Investor

Welcome to the online home of Kingdom Holding Company – one of the world’s most successful diversified investment holding companies. Based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) is a publicly listed company on the Tadawul (Saudi Stock Exchange). KHC is comprised of a select team of experienced investment specialists directed by HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, one of the world’s leading investors.

KHC is internationally renowned for its interest in both high performance global brands and strategic regional interests. The company utilizes detailed selection criteria to identify optimum opportunities to invest and realize value from undervalued or underperforming assets nationally and internationally, appreciating potential for the long term. 

 

Investments

Kingdom Holding Company – The Home of Investment

The KHC investment strategy is to identify and support “best of the best” enterprises around the world. We employ detailed selection criteria to maximize long-term returns for shareholders and joint venture partners, and employ an astute approach to realize investment potential in addition to identifying potential assets that are typically undervalued or underperforming, locally and globally through our sound investment strategy.

Through this approach KHC has cemented its position as one of the world’s foremost value investors.

But the real strength of the overall KHC portfolio lies in sector diversity. We have major interests in investment categories ranging from luxury hotels and real estate to media and publishing, entertainment, finance and investment services, social media and technology, consumer and retail, petrochemicals, education, private equities, health care, aviation, – even agriculture. KHC is among the world’s largest and most diverse investors, with regional and international holdings in many key industries. We are recognized as one of the largest foreign investors in the United States. We are also active in Africa, an emerging market and growing economic power offering nearly limitless potential.

KHC regularly extends its portfolio to include new opportunities. Current holdings shown do not define the limits of the company’s investment ambitions...."

 

Acumen Fund

"As a non-profit, we raise charitable donations that allow us to make patient long-term debt or equity investments in early-stage companies providing reliable and affordable access to agricultural inputs, quality education, clean energy, healthcare services, formal housing, and safe drinking water to low-income customers...."

http://acumen.org/

Omidyar Network

"At Omidyar Network, we start from a fundamental belief: People are inherently capable, but they often lack opportunity. We believe if we invest in people, through opportunity, they will create positive returns for themselves, their families, and the world at large.

We also believe that businesses can be a powerful force for good. Pierre Omidyar experienced this firsthand as the founder of eBay. Just as eBay created the opportunity for millions of people to start their own businesses, we believe market forces can be a potent driver for positive social change. That’s why we invest in both for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations, whose complementary roles can advance entire sectors.

Starting from the premise that people are basically good, Pierre created a platform that gave everyone equal access to information, opportunity, and the tools to pursue their goals. 

  Omidyar Network invests in entrepreneurs who share our commitment to advancing social good at the pace and scale the world needs today. We are focused on five key areas we believe are building blocks for prosperous, stable, and open societies: Consumer Internet and Mobile, Education, Financial Inclusion, Government Transparency, and Property Rights.

We take calculated risks in the earliest stages of innovation, helping to transform promising ideas into successful ventures. As an active impact investor, we offer more than just financial support. We provide vital human capital capabilities, from serving on boards to consulting on strategy, coaching executives to recruiting new talent. We connect promising investees to entrepreneurial visionaries with business know-how. We also leverage the tremendous capacity of Web and mobile technologies to go beyond incremental improvement and make a significant, widespread impact.

Understanding the scale and importance of this work, we don’t undertake the challenge alone. The most powerful force for change lies in our connection with others: business, government, nonprofits, and individual partners. Together, we can use our resources to transform scarcity into abundance and put enduring opportunity within reach of more people worldwide...."

 http://www.omidyar.com/who-we-are

Afric Invest

AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.

Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 50 professionals based in six offices.

AfricInvest manages USD750 million across 13 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.

Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.

Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 112 companies across 24 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare...."

 http://www.africinvest.com/

Tana Africa Capital

Tana Africa Capital is an Africa-focused investment company founded by E. Oppenheimer & Son International Ltd and Temasek. Through the medium of capital and business building support, Tana aims to build African business institutions for generations to come. In doing so, Tana is able to draw on the rich heritage, vast experience and extensive networks of its founding shareholders as well as the on-the-ground African knowledge and operating experience of its management team. Like its namesake, Ethiopia’s Lake Tana (the source of the Blue Nile), Tana aims to serve as a fount of development, leaving an enduring, tangible and positive legacy on the businesses which it supports.

Investment Approach

Tana’s investment approach is predicated on the following three core principles:

Active Investment Management

Tana is an active, value orientated investor that engages positively and in a collaborative fashion with the boards and management of the companies in which it invests. Tana prioritises the institutionalisation of business practices such as business leadership, financial discipline, operational excellence and sound corporate governance. In doing so, it is able to draw on its investment team’s deep experience in strategy and operations across Africa.

Long-Term Investment Focus

The value-adding, partnership approach is supported by the fact that Tana limits the number of companies in which it invests, focusing its efforts on companies that can serve as platforms for domestic and regional expansion. Developing such enduring businesses will, at times, require the adoption of lengthy investment time horizons. The flexibility that Tana has in terms of investment holding periods originates from the fact that it has been established as an evergreen investment company and has as its founding shareholders investors that have achieved great success from eschewing the short termism that dominates much of the investment world.

Clear Sector Focus

Tana’s investment activities are focused on two primary sectors: Consumer and Agriculture. This clear sector focus brings with it deep industry expertise and extensive networks, greatly enhancing the positive impact that Tana can have on the companies in which it invests. 

Focus Sectors and Investment Criteria

Tana invests between US$20 million and US$75 million to acquire significant minority or control equity positions in established businesses across Africa that operate within the Consumer and Agriculture sectors.

Consumer Focus

Companies well positioned to meet the consumption needs of Africa’s young, energetic and growing population are core to Tana’s Consumer sector focus. There is tremendous economic and social value in satisfying the food, beverage and personal care consumer good needs of the African populace, providing the building materials required to house the growing number of households, and offering the logistical support needed to produce and deliver these goods.

Within the Consumer sector, Tana focuses its efforts on:

• Food, beverage and personal care fast moving consumer goods
• Building materials
• Retail
• Logistics

We also consider select opportunities in Consumer Financial Services, Media, Healthcare and Education.

Agriculture Focus

Africa, which has the largest reservoir of undeveloped arable land in the world, will play a pivotal role in the decades ahead in ensuring that the food requirements of a rapidly growing world population are met. Tana will be there to support the development of the crucial Agriculture sector, investing along the agricultural value chain from agricultural inputs (fertilizer, crop protection and equipment) to downstream opportunities in processing, storage and logistics.

Investment Criteria

Tana has a preference for companies operating in these sectors that have the following characteristics:

• Talented and visionary entrepreneur/majority shareholder/management team
• Large, addressable and rapidly growing market
• Minimal public sector dependency
• Attractive industry structure with proven, profitable and sustainable business model
• Highly scalable business with standardised and repeatable processes
• Internal expansion opportunities, as well as potential for add-on acquisitions
• Distinct competitive advantage driving strong market position
• Clearly identifiable and implementable levers for value creation
• Appropriate corporate governance

The Abraaj Group

The Abraaj Group has accumulated more than two decades of investment experience in global growth markets across six regions. Our typical equity transactions range between US$ 10 million and US$ 100 million. - See more at: http://www.abraaj.com/our-approach/private-equity#sthash.lekA9YoD.dpuf

The Abraaj Group has accumulated more than two decades of investment experience in global growth markets across six regions. Our typical equity transactions range between US$ 10 million and US$ 100 million. - See more at: http://www.abraaj.com/our-approach/private-equity#sthash.lekA9YoD.dpuf

Over the past ten years we have made 200 investments in 50 countries, giving us significant breadth and reach. We have applied the learnings from these investments to identify and follow global best practices and to hone our portfolio management and investment skills. - See more at: http://www.abraaj.com/our-approach/private-equity#sthash.lekA9YoD.dpuf

Actis

"We are a global pan-emerging market private equity firm 

With US$5 billion managed by 105 investment professionals we put our investors’ capital to work in 65 companies in total employing over 101,000 people.

With a first class track record

We have invested US$4.0bn in the emerging markets and realised US$2.2bn from US$867m cash invested since Actis was established in 2004.

A distinctive investment strategy

We invest in response to two trends: rising domestic consumption driven by the rapid expansion of the new consumer class, and the need for sustained investment in ​domestic infrastructure; education, energy, financial institutions, healthcare and real estate.

Rich deal flow in country

Actis is resolutely local. Our competitive intelligence and access to opportunities derive from close relationships on the ground. We match this local insight with a global sector approach. This yields great results. In India alone we have put over US$1bn to work to date. We have a particular strength in working with families and founders to professionalise their businesses. We take successful local brands and build them into world-class companies. Consequently many founders want to work with us. This results in unique deal flow.

Successfully mitigating risk

Revolutions, currency depreciation, inflation, bubbles, hot markets and downturns – our experience inherited from our 60 year legacy as part of the UK’s development arm, the Commonwealth Development Corporation or CDC, allows us to anticipate and mitigate those risks traditionally associated with the emerging markets.

A commitment to investing responsibly

Investing responsibly is especially important in the emerging markets. We make sure that civic society, our investors and our employees all benefit from how we invest capital as we build successful sustainable business...."

 http://www.act.is/content/WhoWeAre