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AmaWaterways is a family-controlled company that has been organising luxury river cruises, mainly in Europe and for English-speaking holidaymakers, since 2002.

AmaWaterways operates 26 vessels that sail on the Danube, Rhine, Moselle, Main, Rhône, Seine and Garonne rivers, along with waterways in Belgium and the Netherlands, the Douro, the Mekong in Southeast Asia, the Chobe in Africa and the Nile in Egypt.

Peugeot Invest invested $25m in AmaWaterways.

Lineage is the world’s leading specialist of cold chain logistics serving the food industry, and serving customers such as: producers, wholesalers and mass retailers. Its services extend beyond deep freeze storage and include value added services including deep freezing, repackaging, outsourced order management and logistics.

Lineage is one of the industry’s two main consolidators, with almost 103 acquisitions since 2008. After numerous acquisitions in 2022, the company now operates more than 440 sites accross 20 countries around the world (in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia).

Lineage generated around $5 billion of revenue in 2022. More than a third of US food production goes through a Lineage warehouse before reaching consumers.

Capsa Healthcare is a leading US producer of medical equipment, serving healthcare providers such as hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and pharmacies. The company designs, produces and sells medication carts (with or without mobile IT hardware), sterile preparation workstations and automated drug management systems.

Capsa is the result of a series of acquisitions carried out by its management since 2008, with the support of an American family and then Levine Leichtman CapitalPartners.

Entoria (formerly Ciprès Assurances), founded in 2000, is now France’s second-largest wholesale insurance broker.

The group designs and manages life/health and property/ casualty insurance solutions for freelancers, managers and employees of SMEs. Its solutions are distributed by a network of 9,000 independent brokers across France.

After acquiring Axelliance Groupe in 2018, Entoria has stepped up its development, strengthening its property/ casualty range of product and expanding its local presence in France.

Big Bottling Company produces and distributes carbonated and non-alcoholic beverages in Nigeria. Itsmain product is BIG (cola, lemon and orange flavours).

The company was created when the AJE group – oneof the largest multinationals in the beverages sector, operating in South America, Africa and Asia – spun off its Nigerian division. Big Bottling Company directly employs 250 people at its plant near Lagos and its target production volume is around 40 million cases per year.

Peugeot Invest invested $11m in the Big Bottling Company.

Transact develops software solutions for payment applications as well as access and point-of-sale management applications for American universities. The company offers an integrated platform that allows universities to simplify the collection of tuition fees and campus payments, but also to manage all student privileges and access rights using their badges or smartphones (sports facilities, canteens, class attendance etc.). With more than 1,300 campuses in the United States, Transact handles 12 million students and facilitates more than $45 billion of transactions each year.

Peugeot Invest invested $15m in Transact.

The Lian is a leading brand e-commerce integrated services provider in China, focused on Asian and mid-sized cosmetics and skincare brands. The company, headquartered in Shanghai, is a B2B outsourcing partner for cosmetics brand (also called “Tmall partner”) allowing them to access the Chinese market through brand-authorized flagship stores, mainly on Tmall as well as other major online commerce and referencing platforms (JD.com, VIPShop, Little Red Book).

FFP invested $14m out of a total commitment of $20m.

LivSpace, which was founded in 2015, is today the Indian leading end-to-end home improvement solutions provider. The company is completely reorganising the value chain in the interiors market through the adoption of digital technology, while also standardising and automating processes, leading to major productivity gains. LivSpace operates in 41 cities in India, Singapore, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.

Peugeot Invest invested $20 million in LivSpace

Polyplus was founded in Strasbourg in 2001 and is the world’s leading supplier of transfection reagents, which are consumables used in the production of cell and gene therapies. The company is world-renowned because of the pioneering role played by its main founder, Professor

Jean-Paul Behr, in developing a polymer-based reagent – polyethylenimine or PEI – used in transfection.

Polyplus is now the leading supplier to most pharmaceutical groups operating in gene therapy, research, clinical trial and marketing stages.

Ÿnsect is a French company that is a leading player in farming and processing insects to produce ingredients used as alternatives to traditional animal proteins.

The company is currently addressing the fast-growing markets of animal nutrition (for pets and fish farms) and fertilisers, and aims to have a major impact in terms of sustainability. Ÿnsect’s technologies are protected by over 300 patents and enable the company to breed beetles in vertical farms that have a negative carbon footprint. The company is currently building its third production unit, the world’s largest vertical farm, in Amiens, France. It operates two other sites in France (since 2016) and the Netherlands (since 2017).

Peugeot Invest invested €11 million

Jianke, founded in 2007, is a Chinese company that has developed an online pharmacy service and has since 2018 been offering online consultation services. With these remote medicine services, doctors can monitor patients suffering from chronic diseases digitally, and patients can have prescribed medicines directly to their homes.

Peugeot Invest invested $15 million in Jianke

Singapore-based Venturi Partners is an asset management company founded in 2019. It targets consumer investments in the Growth Equity segment in India and Southeast Asia (mainly in Series B-D funding rounds). By the end of 2022, Venturi I had invested in three platforms: Livspace (onestop- shop for interiors in India, investment made in 2021); Believe (hygiene and beauty products in Bangladesh and India, investment made in 2022); and Country Delight (delivery platform for premium fresh products in India, investment made in 2022).

Peugeot Invest committed $25 million to Venturi I in 2021 and made an additional $5 million co-investment in Country Delight in 2022.

Since 2015, Peugeot Invest has joined forces with several European families to make occasional coinvestments in real-estate projects in the United States.

Projects are put together and managed by a team of US professionals within ELV Associates, which was founded in 1991. Projects mainly involve residential property development, but also include office and retail properties.

In 2022, Peugeot Invest continued its partnership with ELV Associates, investing a further $18.5 million in four projects in Austin, Atlanta, Savannah and Union City. Peugeot Invest also benefited from the sale of four projects for a total amount of $17.7 million, producing IRRs of between 23% and 71%.

OPCI Lapillus II, managed by LBO France’s real-estate team, acquired Tour Marchand – a fully refurbished 16,000 m2 building in La Défense – in 2016, and Tour Grand Angle – a 17,000 m2 building in Saint-Denis offering the potential for higher rents under new leases in 2024 – in 2019.

Maikalai is a Chinese company that sells beauty, personal care and home care products in China. Building on its experience as a Tmall Partner, the company has capitalised on its expertise, its command of new distribution channels (particularly live-streaming) and the rise of domestic brands in China to successfully develop its own brands.

Peugeot Invest invested $15 million in Maikailai

Colonies is one of the leading players in the European coliving market. Coliving is a concept that originated in the United States and is a cross between living in shared accommodation and living in a hotel. Several people live in a home in which they have both their own private spaces and large communal areas where they can benefit from a wide variety of services (sports facilities, cinema, spa etc.) and shared activities (cleaning, WiFi, laundry etc.). Peugeot Invest’s investment is intended to fund the acquisition of around 100 houses in the next two to three years, which will be redeveloped and refurbished before being operated by Colonies under long-term leases.

Arboretum is a 126,000 m2 low-carbon office and services campus, built using timber-frame construction and located in the La Défense area. It will be surrounded by 25 hectares of parkland and is located on the banks of the Seine. It will provide a wide range of interior and exterior workspaces, seven organic restaurants, a conference centre and services such as a 2,000 m2 sports centre. The project is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2023.

eBeauty (formerly UCO) is a leading “ Tmall Partner” (or TP) in China. The company helps more than 40 international beauty brands (Estée Lauder, Clinique, La Roche Posay etc.) to grow in the Chinese e-commerce market, particularly via Tmall. eBeauty offers a turnkey service (online store management, customer service, logistics, marketing), allowing brands with little or no presence in China to enter this market, for example via official stores on Tmall or other platforms (JD.com, VIPShop, Little Red Book). Peugeot Invest became an indirect shareholder of eBeauty after its acquisition of TheLian in 2022.

Peugeot Invest invested $17 million in eBeauty

SantéVet was founded in 2003 and leads the pet insurance market in France. It designs, distributes and manages pet insurance products. The company has formed strategic relationships with major insurance companies, which bear the insurance risk in relation to SantéVet’s products, while giving it full autonomy as regards designing, marketing and managing them.

SantéVet leads the French market and is planning to continue its expansion in Europe, particularly in Belgium, Spain, Germany and Italy.

Causeway is a UK-based company that accompanies various stakeholders throughout the life cycle of construction projects, from initial design through to construction, asset management and maintenance. Causeway is achieving rapid growth, supported by a broad market and favourable trends such as the adoption of digital technology in the construction sector, which is still at an early stage, and an increasing number of projects.

Peugeot Invest invested £5 million in Causeway

Schwind is a German company specialising in making ophthalmic lasers for corneal refractive surgery. 50% of its revenue comes from selling lasers, including its bestselling Amaris range, and 35% of its revenue is regarded as recurring (services and maintenance, consumables etc.).

Future growth should be driven by its promising new Atos laser, which has recently been launched and opens up a new market of lenticule extraction surgery. The group has 130 employees.

Peugeot Invest invested €15 million