ECM Equity Capital Management GmbH is a private equity firm based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, focusing on investments in middle market and mature companies. Established in 1995, ECM specializes in management buyouts, add-on acquisitions, growth capital, and restructuring opportunities, particularly in sectors such as manufacturing, chemicals, automation, healthcare, and retail. The firm generally targets investments between €10 million and €50 million in companies with enterprise values ranging from €20 million to €150 million and revenues between €10 million and €250 million. ECM primarily operates in German-speaking Europe, including Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and may take both minority and majority stakes in its portfolio companies. The firm aims to exit investments within three to seven years and often focuses on companies facing succession issues or shifts in corporate strategy.
Uroviva Group is the largest provider of medical services in the field of urology in Switzerland, especially in the Canton of Zurich. Uroviva combines a highly specialized urological clinic with a network of eight urological practices and in the future one andrological practice.
Apostroph Group is the leading premium language service provider for corporate customers in Switzerland. The company covers 1,600 customers with four offices across Switzerland. Apostroph Group’s focus is on sectors such as pharmaceuticals, medical, chemicals, industrial as well as insurance and banking. With a network of over 400 freelancers, the company provides high quality language services in over 50 languages.
DERMATOLOGIKUM HAMBURG ranks with more than 100,000 patient examinations amongst the leading providers of diagnostics and therapy of skin disorders in Europe.
Wieners+Wieners translates and proofreads texts whose authors cannot afford mistakes: catalogues, annual reports, mailings, fund prospectuses, slogans, sales folders, posters, websites and many others. To this end, Wieners+Wieners relies on a global network of more than 900 hand-picked native-language translators and proofreaders and offers translation services in more than 70 different languages – from Arabic to Zulu. Today, the company employs more than 60 people, including 18 language experts in its own internal proofreading office.
Bergmann Automotive manufactures and supplies cylinder liners for the automotive industry. The company’s products include grooved, structured, and hybrid liners. Its services comprise development, pilot series, machining, and series production.
Kamps GmbH operates and franchises a chain of bakeries in Germany. Around 380 Kamps bakeries - most of them in North Rhine-Westphalia - offer artisan-made, high-quality baked goods such as our classic Kamps Eck, fan block or our chocolate and cinnamon wuppis. Proven recipes are used to bake most of the Kamps bread, rolls and sweet particles in our craft bakery in Schwalmtal on the Lower Rhine every day. Other products, such as our sliced bread, are always baked on site and several times a day for you.
IN tIME was the market leader for time-critical courier services. Customers were mainly in the automotive and logistics industries. Colloquially, this service is also called ‘panic logistics’ – the panic being caused by the threat of a production standstill due to missing components. Thanks to its superior business, model IN tIME was able to grow dynamically in a highly fragmented market.
KADI produces frozen food products, including SUPER CRISP, KADI terrior, French fries, rosti, potato specialties chilled and refrigerated, fish specialties, spring rolls, international specialties, and omelets. The company also provides recipes to prepare its products in different ways and equipment rental services for events. KADI was acquired by Paragon Partners in June 2013. KADI was founded in 1951.
ALUKON manufactures and sells roller shutters. It offers roller shutters, including front-mounted, security, built-in, asymmetric, window frame-mounted roller, and foam-filled frame-mounted shutters, as well as renovation hood solutions; and insect-repelling systems, which include insect-repelling roller shutters, sliding doors, pleated doors, hinge doors, swinging doors, and stenter frames, as well as light well covers.
Sodawerk Stassfurt GmbH
Acquisition in 2001
Sodawerk Stassfurt GmbH & Company KG provides basic chemicals. The Company offers light and heavy soda and sodium bicarbonate. Sodawerk Stassfurt serves customers throughout Germany.
titus AG
Acquisition in 2001
titus was the market leader in German-speaking Europe in the segment of skateboard/lifestyle products (skateboards, clothing, equipment, etc.). titus’ business model combined classic wholesale and retail with mail order, online shop and forums in a multichannel approach.
SPECTRO manufactures advanced instruments and develops the best solutions for elemental analysis in a broad range of applications Elemental analysis is continuing to develop at a fast pace worldwide with the need for ultimate precision, complex system requirements, and expanding fields of applications for even routine operations. SPECTRO leads the progress advancements in this field by providing new solutions and continuous innovations. Founded in 1979 as a 3-man-enterprise, SPECTRO today employs over 400 employees around the world and is listed as the clear market leader for metal analyzers. In addition, growth in the sales of ICP and XRF spectrometers has continued to exceed industry averages. Since our inception, over 40,000 instruments have been delivered globally. These include handheld spectrometers for applications such as metal recycling to fully automatic sample preparation and analysis systems for the process control in a variety of industries covering difficult applications. Our customer list covers the spectrum from small to large international companies in many different industries. SPECTRO is proud to be a vital partner in providing quality products to improve both safety and offer superior analytical analysis to our customers.
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