Clessidra is a Milan-based private equity firm established in 2003, focusing exclusively on the Italian upper-middle market. It manages approximately €2 billion in assets through its funds, including Clessidra Capital Partners and Clessidra Capital Partners II. The firm specializes in investments across various sectors, such as financial services, industrial goods, business services, and healthcare, with a particular emphasis on medium to large-sized companies. Clessidra has built a reputation for effectively identifying and executing investment opportunities, consistently creating value even amidst challenging economic conditions. Its investment strategy often involves taking majority stakes in companies within the apparel, accessories, and manufacturing sectors.
Scrigno's story started out in 1989, when Rimini businessman Giuseppe Berardi came up with the brilliant idea of transforming conventional sliding doors into a product that was quite original and different, unlike anything the market of the time was able to offer, adding a vital element to create an innovative sliding door that disappeared into the wall. Thanks to the absolute quality of its products and services, over the last 28 years Scrigno has managed to conquer a primary position in the production and marketing of frames for sliding disappearing doors and windows, and it has now become a firmly established group that is a point of reference in its sector at a worldwide level.
Acetum is a balsamic vinegar producer. Acetum is based in Modena, the Italian province traditionally associated with balsamic vinegar. The business produces 100 million litres of balsamic vinegar every year, 95 per cent of which is exported.
Arredo Plast
Acquisition in 2015
Arredo Plast is a manufacturer of furniture and storage products.
ABM Italia S.p.A. is a group of manufacturing and sales industries established 1972 and based in Ormelle, in the Northern Italian province of Treviso. The Group includes seven member companies, all with an international presence and all specializing in different sectors.
Camfin is the holding company that owns approximately 26% of Pirelli & C, and other smaller equity investments among which approximately 15% of Prelios. Thanks to the effort of over 35,000 employees and 22 production sites worldwide, Pirelli is the world's fifth largest manufacturer of tyres for automobiles, light transport vehicles and trucks. For more than a century Pirelli, listed on the Milan Stock Exchange since 1922, has been synonymous with innovation and state-of-the-art tyre technology in Italy and in the world thanks to a constant commitment to research and development. Pirelli is an industry leader in Italy and Europe, particularly in the Premium car segment, and is the #1 manufacturer in South America and in the global Prestige car segment. The investment was realised in 2014.
Bitolea engages in the synthesis of fine chemicals and chemical pharmaceutical intermediates; manufacture and purification of organic solvents; and development and production of fuels and ecological combustibles. It produces aliphatic hydrocarbons; and engages in manufacturing and denaturing ethyl alcohol. The company also engages in manufacturing and trading raw materials and formulates, such as chemicals, thinners, solvents, and household cleaners and polishes for industrial applications, flexography, and the paraffin industry. In addition, it engages in transporting liquid chemicals, including gases, flammable liquids, hazardous and corrosive materials, and other materials in tanks in Italy and internationally.
Euticals is a chemical company focused on Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), Custom Synthesis and Fine Chemicals projects and products. Today Euticals Group is one of the leading players in the Pharmaceutical & Fine Chemicals Industry with a global scale production and diversified manufacturing plants, offering multiple technology platforms. Euticals' mission is to be the partner of choice for pharmaceutical and related chemical industries, by supplying its API portfolio and providing custom manufacturing and custom synthesis with large industrial capacity and broad R&D developmental capabilities.
Balconi - Industria Dolciaria is one of the major Italian players and a relevant European player in the production and distribution of packaged snacks, and sponge cake based products, with over 45,000 tons of products sold per year. The company sells its products to supermarket and discount chains, mostly with its own brand ("Balconi") and partly through private labels. Balconi has a single highly automated production facility in Nerviano (Milan) and employs approx. 120 people. In March 2013, Balconi S.p.A. acquired Biscottificio Baroni, based in Albaredo d'Adige (Verona), a major player in the production and distribution of biscuits and wafers. Baroni has a single production facility located in Albaredo d'Adige, and employs approximately 25 people.
ANIMA is a reference point in the Italian asset management industry, with assets under management of 72 billion euros (data as of December 31, 2016), more than one hundred distribution agreements and some one million customers*. ANIMA is a growing business, with more than 245 professionals*: more than 65 are dedicated to investment and product development, over 50 work in sales and support, over 65 in supervision and control and over 55 in the operating platform.
Cerved is the Italian leader in credit risk analysis and the top independent market player for credit management. It offers the most complete range of products and services used by around 34,000 businesses and financial institutions to assess the solvency and credit ratings of its business partners, monitor and manage credit risk through all its phases and accurately define marketing strategies.
Prenergy
Private Equity Round in 2008
Prenergy is the parent company of Prenergy Power, the company created to develop the largest biomass power plant project in the world (up to 350 MWp of installed power), to be built in Port Talbot in Wales . Changes to the incentives of the British government for renewable energy projects have made the Port Talbot power plant project no longer viable. The company was liquidated in 2013.
Giochi Preziosi leader in the traditional toy industry in Italy and one of the largest operators in the world. The Group operates globally, mainly in 10 countries, employs approximately 300 employees and is organized into 4 divisions: 1) Toys Italia, dedicated to the design and distribution of toys owned by the Group (eg Cicciobello, Gormiti) and licensed characters often linked to the most famous cartoons or films. 2) Toys International which deals with the marketing of toys abroad mainly through partnerships with strong local players. 3) Retail which directly manages about 250 proprietary toy stores mainly in Italy and France; these owned chains are also supported by over 450 franchise stores. 4) Horizontal Business which extends the Group's own-brand and licensed toy brand to products similar to the world of children and toys.
Metalcam is one of the major Italian players in the forging of steel components. The company produces special steel and iron alloy forged components weighing 500 Kg to 40 tons, mainly for the oil & gas, energy and mechanical industries.
Gemina, a company now merged into Atlantia Sp.A., is the company that controls Aeroporti di Roma SpA (AdR). AdR SpA manages the Rome airport system (Fiumicino and Ciampino) and is the first airport management company in Italy and among the first in Europe. The participation was sold in 2010.
In 1946, from the dream and intuition of three sports journalists, Sisal was born, the first Italian company to operate in the gaming sector as State Dealer. In over 70 years of activity, Sisal has built a relationship of trust and credibility with Consumers, designing and managing games with competence, transparency, and security, in full accordance with the standards established by the Customs and Monopolies Agency and the major Institutions international organizations on Responsible Gaming. In recent years, leveraging a network of over 45,000 points of sale, the Group has launched a diversification strategy that has allowed it to establish itself among the main players in the payment services market. Today Sisal is an important Italian Group, with a widespread presence in the Territory and online, which makes innovation, retail development, Social Responsibility and Sustainability the goals guiding towards excellence.
Società Gasdotti Italia is a privately held company that supplies natural gas transport services between production sites.
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