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    Co-Investment

    OptiGroup & Hygas

    Sweden

    Industrials
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    Resulting from the merger of OptiGroup and Hygos in 2022, the Group is the leading pan-European B2B distributor of business essentials with ~70 distribution centers and ~1,900 FTEs. The Group operates in five business areas: Facility Safety & Foodservice, Packaging, Medical, Specialty paper and Commodity paper and serves ~105,000 clients in more than 20 countries in Europe.

The Ardian team brought a deep sector knowledge, which I think allowed them not only to do a terrific job in that due diligence period, but also meant they could work very efficiently within our deal time frame.

Doug Brody KKR Capital Market

Ardian and Arsenal both want our investments to benefit society and by working together in this case we’ve reduced the time it takes to set up a clinical trial by many months, which means new drugs come to market as quickly and safely as possible.

Steve McLean Partner of Arsenal Capital

During the due diligence phase, we identified Ardian as a future shareholder capable of making a significant contribution to Emera's development. As soon as the transaction closed, we were able to define and launch value-creating initiatives with Naxicap and Ardian, particularly in terms of group structuring, external growth, digital transformation and real estate strategy, in France but also in Spain and other European countries.

Eric Baugas CEO of EMERA