| Job Creation and Preservation |
Over the past five years, the number of people employed worldwide by UK companies that have been backed by private equity grew by 8% a year - faster than in FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies. Over 90% of companies in which private equity has invested say that without private equity their businesses would not exist or would have grown far less rapidly.
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| Growth |
Over the last 5 years, sales in private equity-backed companies rose by 8% a year (compared to 6% in FTSE 100 companies and 5% in FTSE 250 companies). Over the same period, exports in companies backed by private equity increased by 10% a year, compared with a national growth rate of 4%.
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| Investment |
Companies backed by private equity invest more than the national average. In the five years to 2006/7 investment in private equity-backed companies rose by 11% compared with a national increase of 3%.
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| R&D |
Private equity-backed companies invest in R&D. In the five years to 2006/07, spending by private equity funded companies increased by 14% a year, compared with a national growth rate of 1%.
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| Tax Revenues |
Private equity backed companies contributed nearly £35 billion in taxes in 2006/7 in the UK.
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TRUSTED AND PROVEN INVESTMENT PRINCIPLES
In December 2007, Marc Thiery and Volker Hichert set up DPE Deutsche Private Equity GmbH ("DPE”) to become one of the leading firms serving Mittelstand companies with growth equity capital. A key motivation for the creation of our firm was the belief that there is a need for long-term capital to the benefit of employees, customers and shareholders - without the counterproductive pressures to sell in the short term due to fund constraints. Based on more than twenty years of experience working for some of the leading European private equity firms, we have drawn up a set of investment principles which will guide our investment activity and which our partners and stakeholders can consistently expect from us.
We believe in a management centric approach to value creation. MORE...
We believe in the hands-on development of industry leading businesses. MORE...
We believe in investing for the long term (5-10+ years). MORE...
We believe in straightforward and transparent professional dealings. MORE... |
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