Our Portfolio
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Guard is a specialist in process automation control and insight services with roots in Norway. With deep operational technology capabilities, Guard’s customers span water, wastewater, energy, infrastructure and process industries. Guard delivers fully integrated control systems with appropriate data capture through its proprietary software application to optimise processes, improve efficiency and reveal complex correlations and relationships—driving cost savings and a better environment. Among the most critical tasks, Guard secures OT/IT attack vectors through its cyber security capabilities.
Key investment highlights
Key market for data-enhanced operability and efficiency
Growing market with many niche protections
Tech enablement of traditionally non-existent or manual services
Strong, deep customer relationships with scope to expand services and increase share of wallet
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Axis is a business process outsouring company, focussed on improving data flows and quality within accounts to achieve superior intelligence accross organisations, management teams, board rooms and owners.
Key investment highlights
Leveraging latest available technology
Regulated core market with significant value add opportunities with correct intelligence
Challenger of established processes
Significant M&A opportunity
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Jordanes aims to be the Scandinavian Consumer Brand Champion offering consumers iconic Scandinavian brands. Jordanes believe that the best brands combine great quality ingredients, attractive and convenient designs, as well as being sustainable.
Since inception in 2007, Jordanes have expanded the portfolio to include iconic brands such as Sørlandschips, Synnøve, Peppes Pizza and Bodylab. The current portfolio includes more than 30 brands spanning across four complementary business areas: branded foods, international brands, fitness & beauty and casual dining.
Jordanes has more than 2,700 employees across the Scandinavian countries, the UK, and the Baltics together with 9 local production facilities in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The brands reach the Scandinavian consumer across all channels and occasions throughout the day, with small-ticket everyday purchases.
Key investment highlights:
Low volatility in end market
Margin improvement opportunities through production consolidation and direct to consumer channels
Buy and build opportunity
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Sunde Group is the company that originally laid the foundation for an entire industry by developing EPS technology—the process of converting polystyrene into Isopor®. Today Sunde Group is a world leader in the field, and under the brand names Sundolitt® and Sunpack® offers industry-leading solutions to the construction and civil engineering industries, as well as packaging solutions for the fish and food industries.
The company started in Ålesund in 1917 and is now an international industrial group with operations at around twenty locations across six countries in Europe. Sunde Group has annual revenues of approximately NOK 3 billion.
Sunde AS owns the trademarks “Isopor” and “Sundolitt,” which are widely used terms for EPS.
Key investment highlights:
Deep market insights
Industry ready for European consolidation
Significant barriers of entry through continuous best practice execution