Investment Summary

Paine Schwartz Partners and EQT Invest In Bloom Fresh

On October 7, 2019, private equity firms Paine Schwartz Partners and EQT invested in agriculture company Bloom Fresh

Investment Highlights
  • This is Paine Schwartz Partners’ 9th and EQT’s 1st transaction in the Agriculture sector.
  • This is Paine Schwartz Partners’ 4th and EQT’s 10th transaction in the United Kingdom.

Investment Summary

Date 2019-10-07
Target Bloom Fresh
Sector Agriculture
Investor(s) Paine Schwartz Partners
EQT
Deal Type Stake Purchase

Target

Bloom Fresh

London, United Kingdom
Bloom Fresh is a global platform in the development, licensing, and commercialization of patented Table Grape varieties, anchored in a best-in-class research and development innovation engine. Bloom Fresh's varieties have a track record of preference and demand by farmers, retailers and consumers globally, holding the top global position in licensed farming hectares. Bloom Fresh was founded in 1992 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor

Paine Schwartz Partners

San Mateo, California, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1997
PE ASSETS 6.5B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Paine Schwartz Partners is a private equity firm specializing in sustainable food chain investing. The Firm targets control investments in the food and agriculture sectors and will consider opportunities globally. Paine Schwartz Partners was formerly known as Paine & Partners - and before that was part of Fox Paine & Co. Paine Schwartz Partners has offices in San Mateo, California and New York City.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 33 of 46
Sector: Agriculture M&A 9 of 10
Type: Stake Purchase M&A Deals 4 of 6
Country: United Kingdom M&A 4 of 5
Year: 2019 M&A 3 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-09-25 Wawona Packing Co.

Cutler, California, United States

Wawona Packing Co., LLC is a provider of high-quality stone fruit and a leader in the organic segment of the market.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-12-09 Axiota Animal Health

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Axiota Animal Health is a provider in animal health and nutrition product development and commercialization of nutritional health products offering livestock producers innovative, science-based and commercially viable natural, non-antibiotic solutions to alleviate difficult health and production challenges. Axiota Animal Health is based in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Investor

EQT

Stockholm, Sweden

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1994
PE ASSETS 242.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

EQT is a global private equity group that purses a variety of investment strategies around the world. EQT is divided into several investment disciplines, including private capital, real assets, credit, and venture. The Firm's private capital group targets large, market-leading enterprises (investment size of €125 to €1.5 billion) across Europe and the US, as well as mid-market, growth companies (investment size of €40 to €125 million) across the US, Europe, China, and Southeast Asia. The Firm's real assets group seeks to identify control or co-control equity investments (investment size of €500 to €1 billion) in medium-sized infrastructure companies that provide an essential service to society, are recession resilient, and have secure cash flows. EQT's credit group provides flexible, long-term debt capital solutions to medium-sized European businesses, across a wide range of sectors. EQT was established in 1994 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 219 of 318
Sector: Agriculture M&A 1 of 1
Type: Stake Purchase M&A Deals 15 of 25
Country: United Kingdom M&A 10 of 20
Year: 2019 M&A 23 of 26
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-09-28 inexio

Saarlouis, Germany

inexio is a fast-growing provider of fiber optic internet connections for retail and business customers in Germany. In the retail customer segment, growth is driven by rising data volumes and the growing use of video streaming, whilst in the business segment, fiber optic connections for small and medium-sized businesses are the key driver of growth. inexio is based in Saarlouis, Germany.

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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-10-14 Storytel

Stockholm, Sweden

Storytel is an operator of the audiobook market. Storytel's subscribed audiobook and e-book streaming services offer access to listen to and read more than 700,000 titles on a global scale. Storytel was founded in 2006 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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