MBO Capital Management

"Our Business

MBO Capital is a private equity firm that invests in small to medium-sized companies across a chosen range of industry sectors. Our firm provides early stage and expansion capital to companies that want to accelerate growth and build exceptional shareholder value in partnership with an experienced and knowledgeable investor.

At MBO Capital, we believe that private equity investment is the most viable source of not only the much needed financial capital for small to medium-sized companies, but also the human resource and value add expertise to strengthen management capacity. By providing early stage and expansion capital to these companies, we enable them to accelerate growth and build exceptional value. We also leverage on our local experience to provide strategic and management support to these companies, enhancing their post-investment value and earning superior returns for our investors.

MBO Capital's uniqueness in this regard is in the expertise of its team whose knowledge of the local business environment and extensive network of contacts both within Nigeria and other Anglophone West African countries is enviable.

We also take great pride in our management professionalism and integrity.

Our Focus

Our goal is to assist all our clients to build sustainable businesses through our investment of both financial and intellectual capital. We are committed to supporting entrepreneurs across Anglophone West Africa who own businesses that are both viable and have a proven track record. Over the next 10 years we plan to invest over US$250m in unlisted small to medium sized companies operating across a number of sectors with our prime focus sectors being Energy, FMCG, Technology and Financial Services sectors...."

https://www.mbocapital.com/about-mbo/ 

i-Cubed Capital

"Investment Segments

Strategy

iCubed-Capital adopts a hybrid model where it’s investment acquisition philosophy includes both long term investments and medium term investments (5-7 year exit strategy).

We also acquire family businesses where there is no intention for future generation succession planning and we look to form joint venture partnerships with family businesses looking to expand their existing operations though a growth strategy.

Mission

To acquire and build businesses that support economic growth and contribute to the upliftment of all stakeholders...."

http://icubedcapital.co.za/ 

Investec Principal Investments

"Principal Investments

Investec’s principal investments include private equity and BEE transactions.

Finding a BEE partner for your company requires resources such as funding, contacts and expertise. Access all the resources you need with our passionate team of equity specialists.

A combination of entrepreneurial operators and financiers, we offer sustainable returns through solid investing, strategic involvement and trusted partnership development over the long-term.

With us you get:

•        Access to international markets and contacts.
•        An international corporate and investments bank.  
•        The dynamic entrepreneurial minds of our people.

Delivering returns for more than ten years, we have a remarkable track record of successful partnerships with respected brands across the globe...."

 

 https://www.investec.co.za/products-and-services/advisory-services/principal-investments.html

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

Development Partners International

"Development Partners International LLP (DPI) is the investment adviser to ADP I, a private equity fund that invests across Africa.

Our focus is on companies benefiting from the fast-growing emerging middle class. We work throughout Africa and see the benefits of investing in the fast-growing and newly liberalising countries in Africa.

Our Focus

We expect the fund to invest in a wide variety of companies across the continent, with a view towards not concentrating on any one country, region or industry. We have a focus on companies that provide products and services for the fast-emerging African middle class, which we believe offer the most compelling investment profiles.

These include, but are not limited to the following industries: financial services, fast moving consumer goods, pharmaceutical and health and housing. We also expect the fund to take advantage of strategic opportunities with significant upside, including, among others, resource-based businesses to take advantage of Africa’s oil, natural gas and mineral riches.

Where We Invest

ADP I can invest throughout Africa, with a focus on increasing investments in the fast-growing post-conflict and newly liberalising African countries.

Our Criteria for Investment

We consider profitable or cash-flow positive companies which are growing either organically or through acquisitions, or partnering with established corporations expanding into new regions in Africa. They should offer ADP I the ability to exit over the lifetime of the investment.

The companies’ management must be experienced, and committed to transparency; with a clear corporate strategy designed to create value for shareholders...."

http://www.dpi-llp.com/ 

Coast2Coast

"Coast2Coast is a value investor, using its own balance sheet and senior and mezzanine debt to finance its investments rather than raising a fund from third parties. Coast2Coast achieves its vision by taking a semiactive ownership role in its portfolio of companies, and creating value by partnering the management teams in order to improve strategic, operational and leadership capacity. Coast2Coast’s strategy is to acquire and build platform companies that can add synergistic boltons and to further develop the companies in which it has invested, while ensuring that a strong management team is in place in each company to focus on the day to day operations. In this way, Coast2Coast has consistently produced excellent returns for its shareholders and coinvestors. This includes over 20 deals to date (totalling over R2billion in value).

Coast2Coast looks for companies with competent and honest managers and investment is currently focused on businesses which operate in the consumer products (“FMCG”) sector (foods, personal care and homecare products). Coast2Coast prefer to acquire at least 80% of a company with management retaining the balance...."

 http://coast2coast.co.za/