Bencis Capital Partners
Bencis is an independent investment company that was founded in 1999 by Zoran van Gessel and Jeroen Pit. Bencis supports business owners and management teams in achieving their growth ambitions.
They have been investing in strong, successful businesses in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany for over 20 years. Their experience and expertise in sectors such as Industry & Manufacturing, Food & Beverages, Business & Consumer Services, Healthcare & Leisure and Wholesale & Retail enable us to add true value. Moreover, it is not just the business itself that is key to us, but above all the support they can give to the people who have built it and are taking it further.
Bencis has 26 staff who operate out of offices in Amsterdam, Brussels/Diegem and Düsseldorf. They are currently investing in 21 businesses with a combined turnover of approximately 1.6 billion euros employing a total of 10,000 people. Bencis prefers to invest in businesses with an operating result of up to 50 million euros.
Past deals in Netherlands
Gebhardt-Stahl
Private Equity Round in 2019
Gebhardt-Stahl GmbH manufactures cold-rolled metal sections made of steel, stainless steel, and non-ferrous metals for PVCu windows, HVAC components, steel vineyard stakes, and bespoke profiles. The company offers products in the areas of reinforcement sections, HVAC components, vineyard stakes, and bespoke profiles. It serves customers in Germany and internationally. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Werl, Germany.
Zorgzuster
Seed Round in 2021
Zorgzuster mediates between independent care providers and care questions. The company strives for the perfect match between care demand and care provider.
It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Maastricht-Airport, Limburg.
BRB International
Acquisition in 2016
BRB supplies a large range of products marketed by two business units (Silicones and Lube oil Additives & Chemicals), to a broad range of customers in different industries like Lube Oil Blending, Cosmetic Industry, Coating Industry, Automotive, Off Shore Industry and High Tech industries.
Established in 1981 and headquartered in the south of the Netherlands, BRB has created an effective worldwide supply chain network with offices and warehouses in Germany, Poland, United States, Malaysia, Australia, China, Singapore, Brazil, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and South Africa. BRB’s manufacturing sites are located in Europe and Asia.
Verolme
Acquisition in 2015
Verolme® Special Equipment is a world leader in manufacturing high-end process equipment. Their core expertise is building state-of-the-art heat exchangers, pressure vessels and reactors in the high temperature, high pressure, and high corrosion resistance area. They are a proud member of Verolme® Corporate in The Netherlands.
Their company has built a reputation for delivering the best equipment on the market with world-class quality and unmatched reliability. They have the privilege to cooperate with excellent companies such as ExxonMobil, Total, BP, and many others. Verolme® Special Equipment has been able to help customers in the oil & gas-, petrochemical, chemical, and polysilicon industries worldwide in more than 30 countries.
Wellinq Holding B.V.
Acquisition in 2015
Wellinq is a Dutch high tech company founded in 2011. Two of Wellinq’s constituent elements, Pendracare International and Blue Medical Devices, produce solely medical devices under own brand or OEM-solutions. The third, Sentron, produces sensors, which also have an additional market outside of medicine in general industry.
BVA Auctions
Acquisition in 2014
BVA Auctions BV operates an online auction house in the Netherlands. It auctions goods and real estate on behalf of banks, receivers, lease companies, industry, and corporations. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
Gebhardt-Stahl
Acquisition in 2019
Gebhardt-Stahl GmbH manufactures cold-rolled metal sections made of steel, stainless steel, and non-ferrous metals for PVCu windows, HVAC components, steel vineyard stakes, and bespoke profiles. The company offers products in the areas of reinforcement sections, HVAC components, vineyard stakes, and bespoke profiles. It serves customers in Germany and internationally. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Werl, Germany.
Xeikon
Acquisition in 2013
Xeikon is an innovator in digital printing technology. The company designs, develops and delivers web-fed digital color presses.
Faber Personeelsdiensten
Acquisition in 2012
Faber provides personnel services to painting companies. Faber’s services include payroll, staffing and recruitment. The company has a market leading position in this niche in the Netherlands.
Kooi Trading B.V.
Acquisition in 2018
Kooi Security is a sustainable, proactive and personal partner in 24/7 mobile camera security on construction / work sites and waste sites, with respect for its employees, people and the environment.
TecqGroep
Acquisition in 2016
TecqGroep is a group of companies that specialises in mediating technical personnel.
Their specialised operating companies – the TecqGroep companies - ensure that technical companies can provide technical clients with the right specialists. They provide a workplace for these specialists that suits their ambition and career level.
Together, the TecqGroep companies occupy a strong position on the technical labour market. They are able to mediate personnel at all levels in the technical sector. From highly educated ‘white collar’ specialists to operational ‘blue collar’ professionals.
TecqGroep is the former Humares and has existed since 1976. To underline their technical expertise, the name was changed to TecqGroep in 2018.
Estro Groep B.V.
Acquisition in 2006
Estro Groep B.V. offers child day care services. Estro Groep B.V. was formerly known as Catalpa Holding. The company is based in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
CurTec
Venture Round in 2016
CurTec develops, produces and distributes plastic high performance B2B packaging for pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals and food ingredients. Our packaging solutions allow our customers – who are often operating globally - to increase their sales, reduce their supply chain costs and improve the safety, reliability and sustainability of their products.
CurTec offers a broad range of products which are designed for the transport of dangerous goods and therefore bear a UN marking. Furthermore, we are equipped to develop customised packaging solutions.
HALEX Holding GmbH
Acquisition in 2018
HALEX Holding provides manufacturing sites where high-precision and quality extrusion dies are being developed and manufactured. Customers are pressing plants throughout Europe, where raw aluminium profiles are being produced for the automotive, construction, mechanical engineering and space industry.
Medsen Apotheken
Acquisition in 2019
Medsen Pharmacies is a concept of pharmacies in the Netherlands. In their branches they have more time and attention for your health and always expert advice. Medsen does everything to make the pharmacy accessible. They do this through a different way of working, focused on your needs.
Boval Group
Acquisition in 2015
Boval Group is an independent industry consultant in the areas of consulting and financial services. Boval is particularly focused, from its history , the agricultural wage and earthmoving sector, earthworks, civil engineering, as well as transport and storage and transhipment.
Continental Candy Industries B.V.
Acquisition in 2013
The European Candy Group is a leading European producer of liquorice and confectionery for food and non-food retailers. The extensive range is produced in its three production sites in the Netherlands and includes jelly beans, mixed sugar candies, liquorice allsorts, wine gums and sugar-free liquorice. Through Disfruta, The European Candy Group is also active in the area of healthy snack products.
PePe Parts
Acquisition in 2021
PePe Parts is the full-service B2B e-commerce platform for the sale and distribution of scooter and moped (technical) parts and accessories in the Netherlands.
Pe-Pe Parts serves the aftermarket via a dispersed network of over ~1,500 dealers, garages, resellers, and fleet owners. The company imports and distributes a wide variety of original parts and accessories from a broad range of renowned brands (e.g., Piaggio, Vespa, Yamaha, and Peugeot) and designs and distributes custom-made parts and accessories under its own brand DMP. In addition, Pe-Pe Parts is a specialist in old-timer parts and accessories.
SPGPrints B.V.
Acquisition in 2007
SPGPrints is a global leading company in the textile and graphics printing market. Providing total system solutions: from screens, lacquers, inks and digital engraving to a broad range of rotary screen and digital printing systems.
Being the expert in electroforming this not only entails highly reliable rotary screen technology but also an extensive program of precision metal products.
Through continuous innovation and a powerful distribution network SPGPrints adds significant value to its customer’s processes and products.
The Employment Group
Acquisition in 2011
The Employment Group provides pay rolling and recruitment of specialised technical personnel for customers in the construction, industrial and engineering sectors via its blue-collar label Faber and via its white-collar label Voort.
Bons & Evers Holding
Acquisition in 2019
Bons & Evers is a leader in its field and they reinforce each other through collaboration.
Fit for Free
Acquisition in 2018
Fit for Free is the largest fitness chain in the Netherlands with around 400.000 members and 100 locations.
Concorde Group BV
Acquisition in 2016
Concorde Group BV is the largest provider of translation and interpretation services for government.
Vertaalbureau Concorde Group BV was founded in 1992 under the name Concorde Vertalingen BV. Concorde Tec BV was added two years later. Concorde Tec BV mainly specialised in software translations and localisation. In 2002, the firm was sold to a holding company (Rabo Participaties BV) and an independent entrepreneur (L&B Partners BV). With the sale of the company, the two private limited companies were merged and the name was changed to Vertaalbureau Concorde Group BV.
Morubel nv
Acquisition in 2014
Morubel nv sources, processes, packages, and supplies frozen shrimp and related seafood products under Morubel brand in Europe. Its products include tropical wild catch prawns, peeled pink shrimps, seafood cocktail, crispy apero mix, scallops, northern prawns, crayfish, mussel meat, and squids. The company caters to to retail, food service, and industrial customers.
Florimex
Acquisition in 2005
Florimex International is one of the importers and distributors of fresh cut flowers, potted plants and decorative foliage in Europe and Japan and one of the leaders in its sector worldwide.
