ADDOHA
21.80      ↑ 4.81
AFMA
1,203.00      ↓ -2.12
AFRIC INDUSTRIES SA
319.05      ↑ 0.02
AFRIQUIA GAZ
4,150.00      → 0.00
AGMA-LAHLOU TAZI
7,099.00      → 0.00
AKDITAL S.A
678.10      ↓ -0.28
ALLIANCES
191.00      ↑ 1.06
ALUMINIUM
1,360.00      → 0.00
ARADEI CAPITAL
508.00      ↓ -0.78
ATLANTASANAD
122.50      ↑ 0.41
ATTIJARIWAFA BANK NV
507.00      ↓ -0.59
AUTO NEJMA
2,166.00      → 0.00
AUTOHALL
64.00      ↓ -2.87
BALIMA
219.20      → 0.00
BANK OF AFRICA
198.00      → 0.00
BCP
296.00      ↓ -1.00
BMCI
560.00      → 0.00
BRASSERIES MAROC
2,550.00      → 0.00
CARTIER
22.54      ↓ -4.09
CDM
880.00      → 0.00
CFG BANK
156.30      ↓ -0.45
CIH
360.10      ↓ -1.34
CIMENT MAROC
1,705.00      ↓ -2.01
COLORADO
46.40      ↑ 0.87
COSUMAR
192.00      ↓ -1.99
CREDIT EQDOM
1,180.00      → 0.00
CTM SA
580.00      ↓ -3.33
DARI COUSPATE
3,593.00      → 0.00
DELATTRE LEVIVIER
40.00      → 0.00
DELTA HOLDING
39.40      ↓ -0.25
DIAC SALAF
26.25      → 0.00
DISTY TECHNOLOGIES
231.90      ↑ 0.04
DISWAY
725.60      ↑ 0.08
ENNAKL
32.50      → 0.00
FENIE BROSSETTE
87.00      → 0.00
HPS
586.00      ↓ -0.68
IB MAROC.COM
21.00      ↓ -4.55
IMMORENTE INVEST
94.00      ↓ -0.05
INVOLYS
86.00      ↓ -0.06
ITISSALAT AL-MAGHRIB
103.00      → 0.00
JET CONTRACTORS
374.90      ↓ -1.29
LABEL VIE
4,700.00      → 0.00
LAFARGEHOLCIM MAROC
1,989.00      ↓ -0.55
LESIEUR CRISTAL
268.00      → 0.00
M.LEASING
363.25      → 0.00
M2M Group
486.00      ↓ -6.00
MAGHREB OXYGENE
208.00      → 0.00
MAGHREBAIL
911.00      ↓ -5.99
MANAGEM
1,772.00      ↓ -1.28
MED PAPER
19.00      → 0.00
MICRODATA
670.00      ↑ 1.52
MINIERE TOUISSIT
1,300.00      ↑ 0.78
MUTANDIS
266.30      ↓ -0.04
OULMES
1,420.00      → 0.00
PROMOPHARM
970.00      ↓ -0.21
REBAB
69.00      → 0.00
RES DAR SAADA
36.49      ↑ 1.22
RISMA
229.40      ↓ -0.04
S.M MONETIQUE
161.00      ↑ 3.50
S.M.IMITER
1,418.00      ↓ -0.84
SAHAM ASSURANCE
1,400.00      → 0.00
SALAFIN
588.00      → 0.00
SAMIR
127.80      → 0.00
SNEP
483.00      ↑ 1.05
SODEP-MARSA MAROC
284.00      ↑ 0.89
SONASID
719.00      ↑ 1.99
SOTHEMA
1,040.00      → 0.00
SRM
100.00      → 0.00
STOKVIS
10.23      ↓ -3.03
STROC INDUSTRIE
28.95      ↓ -0.17
TAQA MOROCCO
1,220.00      → 0.00
TGCC S.A
235.05      ↓ -0.40
TIMAR
660.00      → 0.00
TOTAL MAROC
1,332.00      ↓ -3.41
UNIMER
178.00      → 0.00
WAFA ASSURANCE
4,300.00      → 0.00
ZELLIDJA
77.59      → 0.00

Red Med Private Equity

A catalyst for development

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Colombus 1

Colombus 1 Fund adopts a pragmatic sectoral strategy based on analyzing consumption profiles of African households and selecting undercapitalized sectors with strong development potential.

  • Quality of management
  • Favorable competitive environment
  • High entry barriers to core sector
  • Directly or indirectly consumer related businesses
  • Stable tax and regulatory environment
  • Proven market growth potential
  • Relevant business trackrecord

Colombus 1 is also a response to the challenges rising from the post-COVID crisis

Achieving Morocco’s development objectives will require a rebuilding phase to address the multiple challenges the country will face. In this context, Colombus 1’s contribution will consist in:
Participating to the balance of payments’ equilibrium

Maximising the capture of added value at a local level by investing in priority in projects aiming at reducing or replacing imports of services and finished goods by local production. 

Consumers’ support

Prioritization of investments with significant direct and indirect jobs’ creation potential.

Participating in the development of self-sustaining and robust economic ecosystems

Contribute to the development of sectoral ecosystems with a strong consolidation potential and support innovation projects.

Promoting national and regional sectorla champions’ emergence

Supporting African companies in their regional development through funding, but also by bringing strategic support and by easing access to the fund’s international business network.

Decision-making steps

Step 1

Understanding and analysing the development project, the target company’s business model and the key managers’ track-record.

Step 2

Internal and external investment due diligences and co-construction of the business plan.

Step 3

Validation of the investment project by the Investment Committee.

Portfolio companies

CEFA Industries

Brior

CEFA Industries

CEFA Industries is the first investment of Colombus 1, but also the first capital opening carried out by the Raji family, which is a historical and major player in the production and distribution of consumer goods in Morocco. CEFA Industries offers a wide range of couscous and pasta products, which it sells under two well-established reference brands on the Moroccan market for over 30 years, namely “Amgalita” and “Monte Regale”. The project consists of investing in the industrial upstream in order to maximize the capture of added value at the national level, as well as in the development of new high-value products.

 

 

Status:In portfolio

Country:Morocco

Sector:Agribusiness

Deal Type:Growth capital

Investment Fund:Colombus 1

Date of Investment:January 2023

Brior

The Brior Group, founded and led by the Ladnany family since 1949, and one of the historical leaders in the paper hygiene sector with its brands “Fancy” and “Bravo”, welcomes to its shareholding structure Colombus 1, an OPCC fund managed by Red Med Private Equity.

With its industrial expertise in the paper hygiene products sector, the Group wishes to strengthen its production capabilities and improve its operational efficiency through investments aimed at enhancing industrial competitiveness. The partnership also aims to capitalize on the Group’s position as a reference distributor for Moroccan and international brands with extensive national coverage, and thus develop the Group’s product portfolio for greater commercial impact.

Through this partnership, Colombus1 intends to support the Group in its institutionalization as well as in its transition towards a management model that adheres to the highest standards.

Status:In portfolio

Country:Morocco

Sector:FMCG et distribution

Deal Type:Capital-développement

Investment Fund:Colombus 1

Date of Investment:January 2024

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