M&A Deal Summary

HgCapital Acquires Fabory

On September 26, 2007, private equity firm HgCapital acquired distribution company Fabory from AAC Capital Partners for 345M EUR

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is HgCapital’s 1st transaction in the Distribution sector.
  • This is HgCapital’s 9th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is HgCapital’s 5th transaction in the Netherlands.
Investment Fate
  • Fabory was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2011.
  • Fabory was divested to a consortium of buyers in 2020.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2007-09-26
Target Fabory
Sector Distribution
Buyer(s) HgCapital
Sellers(s) AAC Capital Partners
Deal Type Secondary Buyout
Deal Value 345M EUR

Target

Fabory

Tilburg, Netherlands
Fabory is a provider of fasteners and fastener-related products in the Benelux with a pan-European presence. The company sources a broad assortment of high-quality and mission-critical fasteners from suppliers worldwide and distributes to over 60,000 customers throughout Europe. Its client base ranks from blue-chip to SME across various end markets, including machine building, electrical appliances, automotive, and construction. With its broad one-stop-shop offering of over 400,000 products, Fabory combines deep technical knowledge with smart inventory management solutions and a high degree of availability to provide its customers with efficient and convenient fastener-related solutions. Fabory was formed in 1947 and is based in Tilburg, Netherlands.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

HgCapital

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2000
PE ASSETS 70.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

HgCapital is a European private equity firm focused on a wide range of transactions including public-to-private leveraged buy-outs, management buy-ins, divestitures, and turnarounds. Broad sectors of interest include consumer and leisure, healthcare, industrials, services, technology, media, and renewable energy. The Firm will consider both majority and minority investment positions. HgCapital is the successor to Mercury Capital Partners, a former unit of Merill Lynch which was spun out by management in 2000. HgCapital has offices in London and Munich.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 36 of 151
Sector (Distribution) 1 of 3
Type (Secondary Buyout) 8 of 50
Country (Netherlands) 5 of 8
Year (2007) 5 of 8
Size (of disclosed) 9 of 32
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-09-19 Mondo Minerals B.V.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Mondo Minerals B.V. is a European talc performance minerals business produces and supplies high quality and innovative talc products for use in a diverse range of end-markets, including plastics, coatings and paints, technical ceramics, pharmaceuticals and paper.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-09-28 Cornish Bakehouse

Stokenchurch, United Kingdom

Cornish Bakehouse sells a full take-away offer, predominately for lunchtime trade, including pasties, sandwiches, baguettes, cakes, pizza, snacks and drinks. Cornish Bakehouse is based in Stokenchurch, United Kingdom.

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

AAC Capital Partners

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2001
PE ASSETS 900M EUR
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

AAC Capital is a specialist buy-out private equity firm target to invest in mid- market companies located primarily in Netherlands and Belgium. It seeks to invest in companies with an enterprise value of €50 - 350 million. ACC Capital Benelux is a private equity arm of ACC Capital Partners and is based in Amsterdam.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 21
Sector (Distribution) 1 of 2
Type (Secondary Buyout) 2 of 9
Country (Netherlands) 5 of 18
Year (2007) 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-09-01 Transport Management International

Hoofddorp, Netherlands

TMI is a diversified logistics service provider with strong positions in Benelux freight forwarding (air, sea and land, alongside smaller positions in integrated logistics and platform handling.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-01-16 United Coffee

Geneva, Netherlands

United Coffee (formerly Drie Mollen) is one of Europe’s largest coffee roasters, producing and distributing a wide range of coffee, coffee machines and related services through retail and out-of-home distribution channels, which includes hotels, restaurants and cafés.

Sell -
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