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Nazca Partners with IDP Shareholders to accelerate its growth plan
Founded in 1998 in Sabadell (Spain), IDP is the Spanish leader in engineering services based on Building Information Modeling (BIM) and other digitization services for a wide range of sectors. Nazca, together with the company's shareholders, plans to accelerate IDP’s project, carrying out an ambitious business plan that includes both organic growth and acquisitions of other engineering and digital services firms that could generate synergies with IDP. This is the second acquisition of Nazca Fund V, focused on investing in SMEs. Madrid, 23 July 2020.- IDP, a Spanish leader in BIM-based engineering services, has teamed with Nazca Capital, a Spanish private equity firm focused on investing in the Spanish mid-market. IDP shareholders will rely on Nazca's expertise in developing organic and inorganic growth projects to take advantage of relevant opportunities in the engineering sector, and to enhance the development of its digital services. Nazca will become a majority shareholder in IDP. IDP, founded more than 20 years ago, is a company specialized in providing engineering services based on BIM methodology. The company has extensive national and international experience in the industrial, logistic, non-residential construction, retail, environmental, and infrastructure sectors. IDP business model is based on innovation, which has allowed the company to apply BIM methodology to the entire life cycle of the asset (design, construction, and maintenance), improving design´s quality and reducing costs and execution times. In addition, the company has developed unique capabilities in digitalization to improve assets performance through the development of Digital Twins for construction, operation, and maintenance. IDP has offices in Spain and Latin America and had sales of €11 million in 2019. In this new phase, IDP plans to accelerate its organic and inorganic business plan taking advantage of its leading position in the BIM niche, its innovative portfolio services, and the growing…
Read moreNazca appoints two new partners and successfully completes its reorganisation as a multi-fund manager
Ramón Garnica and Emilio Manchón, with ten years of experience at NAZCA, are appointed partners of the firm. During 2019 NAZCA established Fund V to attend to the segment of…
Read moreCaiba acquires Pramix, specialised in polyethylene plastic containers
Located in Toledo, Pramix achieved sales of six million euros in 2019 after recording growth of 10% during the year Madrid, 20th of January 2020. Caiba, a pioneering company in…
Read moreNazca becomes a shareholder of the One Shot Hotels hotel chain
Founded in 2013 by the Family of Solís Tello and Luis Felipe Mendieta, One Shot Hotels is the third largest independent hotel chain in Spain with 11 urban hotels within…
Read moreNazca becomes a shareholder in Cinelux
Nazca Capital has made its first investment of Nazca Fund V with the acquisition of Cinelux. The current owner, David García, will continue as Managing Director and will maintain a…
Read moreNazca acquires a majority shareholding in Diater
Through Nazca Fund IV, Nazca Capital has purchased the shareholding of Laboratorios Ferrer in Diater, a pioneering Spanish biopharmaceutical company in the sector of immunotherapy treatment of allergies. The founders,…
Read moreNazca acquires 100% of Terratest, leader in special foundations
Nazca Capital has led the acquisition of 100% of the Spanish multinational Terratest. This operation, the largest to date carried out by Nazca, was completed after a six month bilateral…
Read moreNazca begins a new phase as a multi-fund private equity manager
The entity will increase its staff with up to ten new members. It is launching a vehicle of 150 million euros for investment in smaller businesses. Having obtained extensive experience,…
Read moreHerbex accelerates its international expansion and incorporates Nazca into its shareholding
Herbex, leader in Europe in the market of fresh aromatic herbs, has incorporated Nazca Capital into its shareholding. Jaime Visquert, founder and Managing Director of Herbex, who will maintain a…
Read moreSpanish multinational Phibo incorporates Nazca in its capital to strengthen its growth
Nazca Capital has acquired a shareholding of 55% in Spanish multinational Phibo. This majority shareholding was reached after the purchase of shares and the completion of a capital expansion for…
Read moreNazca sells Eurekakids, leading retailer and distributor of educational toys in Spain
Nazca, Hape and Beleduc have reached an agreement for the acquisition of Eurekakids by Hape and Beleduc. Eurekakids is one of the largest distributors of educational toys in Europe with…
Read moreNazca, “Best Middle Market Operation” for Agromillora
On the 5th of July, Nazca Capital was one of the Private Equity entities awarded at the 10th Edition of the Private Equity Awards in Spain, organised by ASCRI (Spanish…
Read moreNazca acquires 100% of the capital of McBath, along with the management team
Nazca Capital has acquired one hundred percent of Moldcom Composites, S.L. (“McBath”) along with the management team of the company. McBath was founded in 2006 and is specialized in resin…
Read moreNazca sells Biogran, the leading manufacturer and distributor of organic food in Spain
Nazca has sold Biogran, a leader in Europe in the organic food market, to Wessanen, a listed Dutch company with €600 million in sales. Biogran is the leader in the…
Read moreNazca, Agromillora and Investcorp announce that they have reached an agreement for Investcorp to acquire a majority shareholding in Agromillora
NAZCA, AGROMILLORA and INVESTCORP today announced that they have reached an agreement for INVESTCORP to acquire a majority shareholding in AGROMILLORA for an undisclosed amount. Through this acquisition, the shareholding…
Read moreNazca establishes its fourth fund, Nazca Fund IV
NAZCA establishes its fourth fund, Nazca Fund IV, un under 6 months and with oversubscription of the target of €250M. NAZCA will complete the fund in December, reaching the “hard…
Read moreNazca acquires a majority shareholding in Caiba
Nazca Capital has reached an agreement (through Nazca Fund III) with the Baños Family (owner and founder of the company) for the acquisition of a shareholding of around 75% of…
Read moreGenesisCare and Nazca Capital reach a final agreement for the acquisition of IMOncology by GenesisCare
Nazca Capital has reached a final agreement for the sale of 100% of the capital of IMOncology to GenesisCare, an international healthcare operator with over 50 oncological treatment centres in…
Read moreNazca incorporated in the capital of Juan Luna
Nazca Capital has reached an agreement (through Nazca Fund III) with the Luna family (owner and founder of the company) for its incorporation in the shareholding of Distribuciones Juan Luna,…
Read moreNazca sells Sistemas to HIG Capital
On the 21st of December NAZCA FUND II signed the sale of its shareholding in Sistemas e Imagen Publicidad (“Sistemas”) to the international private equity fund HIG Capital. Nazca acquired…
Read moreNazca acquires El Granero Integral
Nazca Capital, through Nazca Fund III, has finalized an agreement for the acquisition of a majority shareholding in the shareholding of El Granero Integral from the Muñoz family, owner and…
Read moreNazca acquires the SANTAGLORIA bakeries and the TABERNA DEL VOLAPIÉ chain
Nazca Capital has reached an agreement for acquisition, through Nazca Fund III, of the chain of bakery-cafés under the brands SANTAGLORIA, El Molí Vell and L’Obrador from Europastry, leader in the…
Read moreNazca sells Fritta
Nazca Capital, the private equity fund management company, has sold Investcorp its shareholding in Fritta, a company specialised in the sector of frits and ceramic enamels. The acquisition is subject…
Read moreNazca, ‘Best Private Equity Fund 2015’ at the ECOFIN Awards
On the 3rd of February, the ECOFIN judges of the “Professional Excellence in Financial Markets” awards, promoted by the ECOFIN Forum with the collaboration of Cecabank, recognized Nazca as the…
Read moreNazca sells Hedonai to Vousse November 2014
Nazca sells its shareholding in Hedonai aesthetic centres to the group Vousse Corp., S.A. On the 26th of November NAZCA FUND II signed a sales agreement for its shareholding in HEDONAI…
Read moreNazca Capital acquires 100% of the capital of Gestair
Nazca Capital, through its Nazca Fund III, has acquired 100% of the capital of Gestair and 50% of its subsidiary Corjet which was in the hands of Iberia, thereby now…
Read moreNazca acquires a majority shareholding in Fritta
Nazca Capital, through Nazca Fund III, has finalised an agreement for the acquisition of a majority shareholding in Fritta, S.L. The owning and founding families of Fritta have agreed with NAZCA…
Read moreNazca incorporated in the shareholding of Agromillora
Nazca Capital, through its Nazca Fund III, has been incorporated in the shareholding of Agromillora, global leader in propagation of stone fruit trees, olive trees and grapevines, through a capital increase.…
Read moreNazca acquires 100% of Ovelar Merchandising
NAZCA, through Nazca Fund III, has acquired 100% of the capital of the Spanish company OVELAR MERCHANDISING, the main provider of visual merchandising and point of sale promotion solutions for large…
Read moreNazca acquires a majority shareholding in Grupo IMO
Nazca Capital has finalised an agreement for the acquisition, through Nazca Fund III, of a majority shareholding in Grupo IMO, a leading Spanish company in the provision of radiotherapy services for…
Read moreNazca sells Acens to Telefónica
Nazca has reached an agreement with Grupo Telefónica for the sale of Acens Technologies, one of the companies of reference in the provision of technological hosting and cloud computing services for SMEs. It is…
Read moreNazca incorporated in the capital of Eurekakids
Nazca Capital undertakes the first operation of Nazca Fund III, finalised in April 2011, with the acquisition of a majority shareholding in the capital of the Spanish company EUREKAKIDS through…
Read moreNazca sells Guzmán Gastronomía
Since the December 2009 purchase by Nazca Fund II and the Nazca management team, along with a group of international investors led by Alpinvest, Nazca has successfully divested from two of its…
Read moreNazca sells Ediciones Francis Lefebvre its shareholding in publishing group El Derecho and Quantor
Nazca Capital has reached an agreement with Ediciones Francis Lefebvre for the sale of a controlling shareholding in Grupo El Derecho, a leading electronic format legal publisher in Spain, thereby doubling its size…
Read moreThe Nazca management team buys the shareholding of Fortis in the manager and AlpInvest becomes its main investor
Nazca Capital, the leading private equity firm in Spain in the mid-market segment, today announces the finalisation of the operation through which Fortis Bank SA/NV sells its shareholding in Nazca…
Read moreNazca enters the outdoor advertising business
The risk capital entity has acquired two companies in the sector, Sistemas e Imagen Publicitaria, located in Barcelona, and Mundex, in Madrid. Both companies will be merged to create a…
Read moreNazca purchases Acens Technologies
The private equity firm Nazca Capital, the managing director of the company, José Cerdán, and Aleph Capital, founding shareholder of Nazca, yesterday announced the acquisition of 100% of Acens Technologies, a leading…
Read moreNazca incorporated in the capital of Transportes García Villalobos and purchases Logifrío
Nazca and the García Villalobos family make up the Spanish leader in specialised logistics for manufacturers or sellers of food products which require periodic deliveries at a controlled temperature with the highest…
Read moreNazca purchases a majority shareholding in Guzmán, which invoices 20 million euros per year
The private equity company Nazca Capital reports today that it has acquired a majority shareholding in Guzmán, a company which prepares and distributes gastronomy products for the catering and restaurant sector…
Read moreNazca purchases 53% of Cosecheros Abastecedores
Nazca Capital has taken control of the Cosecheros Abastecedores (Casa) winery, the largest Spanish wine group, thanks to the acquisition of 53 percent of the shares of the company. The operation, which…
Read moreNazca purchases the postal operator UniPost
La sociedad de capital riesgo invierte unos 15 millones de euros en la operación. Nazca Capital, empresa de capital riesgo del grupo belga Fortis, tomará próximamente el 33% de Unipost, el primer…
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