RETIF
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RETIF

RETIF operates 89 cash and carry stores selling equipment and consumables to retail stores.

The chain is primarily based in France, but also has operations in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the UK. RETIF carries a comprehensive range of over 7,000 products including display units and shelving as well as decoration, packaging, stationery, cleaning and labelling products.

Equistone invested in this tertiary buyout as part of a syndicate led by ABN Amro. In September 2007, management and ABN Amro sold the business to a syndicate of private equity firms led by Pragma Capital. Equistone reinvested in the new buyout.

THE EXIT

Equistone sold its Fund II investment in RETIF in December 2013.

HOLDING PERIOD

Dec 2002 - Dec 2013

Country

France

Sector

Consumer

Revenue Progression

€131m / €137m

Employees at ACQ.

1,030

Investment Type

Secondary MBO / Syndication

ADD-ON ACQUISITIONS

Decor Equip
Jan 2009
Super Sellers
2007
Reflé
2007
Floristik
Sep 2004