Ethos

Ethos, founded in 1984 and headquartered in Illovo, South Africa, is a prominent asset management firm specializing in private equity investments. The firm has played a pioneering role in South African private equity, being the first to facilitate private equity-led acquisitions in the country. Ethos focuses on long-term investments in medium-to-large businesses across various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, technology, and more, primarily within South Africa and selectively in sub-Saharan Africa. The firm has invested in over 100 companies, achieving consistent outperformance compared to the stock market and delivering strong returns for its investors. Ethos is independently owned and managed by its investment professionals, ensuring that their interests are aligned with those of their stakeholders. Currently, Ethos is investing from Ethos Fund VI, which has commitments totaling approximately R7 billion, making it one of the largest pools of third-party capital in Africa.

Bill Ashmore

Partner

Bruce Baisley

Partner, Larger Equity Funds

Garry Boyd

Partner

Arshad Essa

Partner, Mid Market

Horisane Marivate

Principal, Value Add

James Newman

Partner, Large Equity Funds

Nadine Rechenberg

Partner

Jos Van Zyl

COO, Partner and Board Member

Past deals in Swaziland

The Beverage Company

Acquisition in 2017
Little Green Beverages (LGB), a proudly South African company, was founded in 2006,when the founding shareholders purchased a bottling plant located in Robertville, Western Johannesburg. After acquiring the necessary skills, resources and supplementary equipment, the founders brought the plant online and began producing a limited range of carbonated soft drinks in early 2006. The much loved Refreshhh! brand was born and the rest is history. Specialist flavourant providers were engaged to help create the delicious taste that the Refreshhh! range of soft drinks are known for. Over the next 7 years, LGB grew into a thriving company with a national footprint by establishing new production facilities 3 in East London and Bloemfontein, as well as depots in KwaZulu Natal and the Western Cape The Refreshhh! product range currently comprises of 16 carbonated soft drink flavours (Apple, Coco Pine, Cola, Cream Soda, Ginger Beer, Granadilla, Grape, Iron Brew, Lemon, Lemonade, Litchi, Mango, Orange, Peach, Pineapple and Raspberry) with five additional Sugar Free flavours . The Refreshhh! product range is available in 2 litre, 1.5 litre, 500 ml and 330 ml PET bottles. The brand also has its own Energy Drink which is available in 440ml can, a range of Mixers and Still Mineral Water. Refreshhh! through its valued retail partners, is available throughout South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Namibia and Lesotho. Little Green Beverages strives to deliver the best in affordable, quality soft drinks to a large segment of the Southern African market.

AutoZone

Acquisition in 2015
AutoZone is the largest privately owned automotive parts retailer and wholesaler in Southern Africa. They have a span of 151 wholly-owned retail branches and 37 member-owned franchise branches. They have a supporting supplier base of 688 world-class suppliers contributing to a massive parts range of over 75 000 parts. Apart from South Africa, our franchises have presence in Namibia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Botswana. All branches are supported by a well-developed supply chain as well as merchandising and support services. They are a powerful supplier of automotive spare vehicle parts and have excellent presence in the spares market. They are respected by trade customers (workshops and engineers), cash customers as well as independent spares retailers. Autozone has an excellent presence in national accounts too, holding corporate and government contracts.
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