Launched in 2020, this fund raised capital of 65 million euros from public and private investors (including the Flemish businessman Marc Coucke or the Leysen family or even Tom Waes, the producer of TV show, author of a serious accident while intoxicated).
On the side of public investors, we find the federal, Flemish and Walloon governments, which intervened respectively via the companies SFPIM, PMV and Sogepa (renamed Wallonie Entreprendre).
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-Mediated operations
One of the operations that made CIM Capital known was the acquisition in 2019 of the Veritas stores, which were completely reorganized. Another investment mentioned on the site is Lapauw International. This production company from Kortrijk specializes in ecological industrial washing and ironing machines for the hotel sector, industrial laundries, hospitals and nursing homes. It was also CIM Capital which bought the Neckermann travel agencies and the Zoute Grand Prix.
Marc Van Hool denies being at the head of a fund which only seeks to buy companies to reorganize them and then resell them at a capital gain. “When raising funds (in 2020, Editor’s note), we kept driving the point home, because it’s a sensitive point”he declared recently.
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