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Up-date: November 2004

CONSUMER GOODS SECTOR
        Food Processing
                Confectionery
               
Delicatessen
               
Pastry & Bakery
        Healthcare
                Health Products and Medicines
        Perfumes, Cosmetics & Luxury Goods
                Flavours and Fragrances
               
Watch-making, Luxury & Fine Goods
        Clothing
INDUSTRIAL SECTOR
        Building, Construction & Public Works
                Industrial Manufacturing

                Industrial Technologies
        Internet and Web-Integrators
 

CONSUMER GOODS SECTOR

Food processing

Confectionery

A French mid-sized producer of luxury confectionery whose products have an extensive and established distribution network seeks to acquire a partner with a complementary product mix. 

Preferred product line of Acquisition Company:  Nougat, fruit pastes, pralines, marrons glacés.

Delicatessen

A group of Belgian producers of regional food specialties seeks to acquire companies supplying the French supermarket sector.

Preferred location of Acquisition Company: Parisian Region, Normandy, Brittany.

Pastry & Bakery

A French producer of specialty cakes and puddings seeks merger / acquisition with similar well established enterprises in neighbouring countries supplying the supermarket sector of their countries in order to create a Pan-European distribution channel.

Preferred location of Acquisition Company: Italy, Spain, Switzerland.

Healthcare

Health products and medicines

A Belgian producer of natural medicines and health products seeks to acquire a French company in the same field in order to extend operations in the French market.

Perfumes, cosmetics & luxury goods

Flavours and fragrances

A world leader in the field of flavours and fragrances seeks to acquire a medium size company with specialty products.

Preferred origin of Acquisition Company: France, Italy

Watch-making, luxury & fine goods

An internationally acknowledged Swiss brand seeks to develop its world-wide presence in luxury goods through acquisition(s)

The company would also consider opportunities in newly evolving technologies.

Preferred acquisitions targets will operate in a well defined niche.

Clothing

A European leader in outdoor accessories and clothing seeks to acquire a European business in the same sector, with well established local distribution.  

Targeted markets: UK, Benelux, Germany & Scandinavian Countries

 

INDUSTRIAL SECTOR

Building, construction & Public Works

Industrial manufacturing

A major Belgian manufacturer of aluminium and PVC structures seeks to acquire distributors in France.

Preferred markets: Parisian Region, Rhône-Alpes

Industrial Technologies

PIKE is a French holding company with a portfolio of SMEs involved in niche technologies where they have a substantial market share, such as the production of anodes for aluminium smelters, or computer simulations of a nuclear explosion. Although these businesses are not inter-related, they are nevertheless fully owned by the mother company.

Thanks to the strong growth of its cash-flow, PIKE has substantially deleveraged its balance-sheet and is now back on the acquisition trail.

The target acquisition will have a proprietary technology and will be value between 3M€ and 10 M€. PIKE will seek to acquire 100 % of the shares.

Preferred location of Target Company: France, UK, USA
 

Internet and Web-Integrators

A leading French Web integrator, who conceives and installs systems that interact between clients IT infrastructure and on-line technology, seeks French acquisitions and European partnerships.

   

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