M&A Deal Summary

ECM Equity Capital Management Acquires Maredo Restaurants Holding

On May 14, 2008, private equity firm ECM Equity Capital Management acquired restaurant Maredo Restaurants Holding

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is ECM Equity Capital Management’s 1st transaction in the Restaurants sector.
  • This is ECM Equity Capital Management’s 13th transaction in Germany.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2008-05-14
Target Maredo Restaurants Holding
Sector Restaurants
Buyer(s) ECM Equity Capital Management
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Maredo Restaurants Holding

Dusseldorf, Germany
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Maredo is one of the leading German food service company with about 60 restaurants in Germany and Austria. Because of its 30-year history and national presence, the company has an extraordinary brand awareness. This allows the company to, among other things, high-quality meat from specially certified slaughterhouses in South America successful in the German food retail market to market.

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Buyer

ECM Equity Capital Management

Frankfurt, Germany

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1995
PE ASSETS 1.0B EUR
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Equity Capital Management (ECM) is a private investment firm that looks to acquire majority/minority interests in mid-sized companies through its German Equity Partners private equity funds. ECM primarily looks for buyout opportunities to support succession and spin-off situations. Targets companies typically have annual sales between EUR10 and EUR250 million and are in the manufacturing, service or trade industries. ECM's geographical focus is within German-speaking Europe. ECM is based in Frankfurt.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 15 of 32
Sector (Restaurants) 1 of 1
Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) 12 of 26
Country (Germany) 13 of 28
Year (2008) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-11-23 Sodawerk Staßfurt KG

Stassfurt, Germany

Sodawerk StaBfurt, based in StaBfurt (Saxony-Anhalt), produces light and heavy soda as well as sodium bicarbonate. Soda is a mature commodity utilized as an essential raw material, mainly used in the glass industry. For this purpose, a mixture of soda, sand, lime stone and special aggregates is melted at a temperature of 1.500?C. This mixture consists of up to 20% of soda. Sodawerk StaBfurt supplies the main glass and detergent producers in Germany and neighboring countries. Sodium bicarbonate is used as baking soda in the food industry, in medicine as well as in various other industries.

Sell €75M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-07-01 KADI

Langenthal, Switzerland

KADI is a manufacturer of refrigerated and frozen products and is based in Langenthal. The company produces around 270 different items, which are used every day in over 10’000 restaurants in Switzerland. KADI was founded in 1951 and is based in Langenthal, Switzerland.

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