Standard Investment

Taking on Challenges

Seeing growth and improvement potential in a company and adding structural value. Looking at the strength and ambition of the people. That’s what drives us. Not only as investors but also as managers and entrepreneurs.

Active and Involved

By being actively involved and working closely together with the people in our companies, we create the highest chances of success. We do this by going against the grain and thinking outside the box.

Creating Value

We always try to create growth and improvement with long-term effects. We dive deep into the market and the company all while adding our own broad experience, commitment, and energy.

Companies

Here you find a selection of our companies. For all our companies click here and for a video impression click here

Sparck Technologies

Growth

Riedel

Carve-out

ALT Technologies

Growth

Burger King Nederland

Improvement

All our companies

Dutch Bakery Group

Turnaround

Synres

Improvement

Flatfield

Growth

Aweta

Improvement

Our market: small and medium-sized enterprises, revenues between €20m and €200m, headquartered in the Netherlands, Belgium or Scandinavia. We look for growth and/or improvement potential, a majority share and an active role for Standard Investment. We acquire companies with an enterprise value of up to €100m.

Approach

The Standard approach

We believe that the combination of an investor, entrepreneur, and manager leads to the best results for all parties. As an investor, we want to get a good return and we must accurately anticipate both the threats and possibilities in the market and the business. As an entrepreneur, we have to take risks, seize opportunities, rely on our intuition, and sometimes take firm action to achieve our goals. As a manager, we get people moving, provide structure, develop lasting improvements, and we help keep or make employees proud of their company.

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Entrepreneur

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About us

Creating opportunities together

We've been improving structurally companies since 2004. There are 18 companies in our portfolio with more than 4.000 employees and revenues of more than €1bn. The entire Standard Investment team has a penchant for medium-sized companies: enterprises with minimal office politics, direct lines of communication, and many strategic and operational challenges, where we can really make a difference.