Encouraging the emergence of middle-market companies by consolidating SMEs

Industries & Finances Partenaires (IFP) is an independent private equity firm which specialises in SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) industrial consolidation and synergies‚ also known as ‘build-up’ operations. IFP combines both industrial experience and financial skills, and takes majority stakes in non-listed companies which it advises in partnership with their management teams to create a proactive strategy by grouping together companies in similar industrial sectors. This innovative strategy in the French market allows the SMEs in question to evolve‚ and gives them access to large growth areas and an advantage in the export market.