We help inspired entrepreneurs and enterprising management teams to bring their dreams and goals to life. We started working at our kitchen table in 2007. Now, we have grown into a strong collective of professionals with solid financial and operational business experience. We help companies become successful on a scale much bigger than they ever imagined.
We focus on established, medium-sized and profitable companies in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Germany with clear growth opportunities, such as organic growth, international expansion and buy-and-build. We like to team up with unique entrepreneurs and enterprising managers to jointly realize ambitious growth plans. With our companies, we seek an active approach that is based on true entrepreneurship, growth acceleration and transformation, and is spurred by the human factor and sustainability.
With over 25 (international) transactions every year, we have a strong track record in market consolidations and operational transformations. Our focus is on companies with EBITDA of €2 to €20 million.
Petite Amélie
Petite Amélie is an innovative e-commerce brand for children’s furniture, accessories, toys and textiles.
Bright River & Zibber
The combination of Bright River and Zibber is a global provider of visual content solutions that accelerate growth for e-commerce and real estate clients.
Touch Incentive
Touch Incentive delivers impactful loyalty and incentive solutions to reward and promote desirable behaviour among consumers, employees, and business partners.
Epplejeck
Epplejeck is a unique equestrian sports retailer with modern superstores and an online web shop, with a wide product range for both horse and rider.
Multitubes
Multitubes is a producer of sustainable plastic tubes for the cosmetics, food, pharmaceutical and industrial markets.
People
We believe in the strength of people and collaboration. Our people are all specialists with a great deal of ambition and knowledge, years of experience, and a highly enterprising attitude. The team is diverse and has developed a healthy and thriving team spirit, in which everyone is valued. That is the way for us to achieve durable success.
Sustainability
At Mentha, we care about a sustainable, safe, healthy and fair environment. We make our companies future-proof by integrating sustainability into the ambitions and growth plans. It makes companies stronger and contributes to growth and profit. We are therefore selective in working with companies, entrepreneurs and management teams who share our vision on the importance of sustainable business.
We aim to make responsible decisions. From strict supplier selection to energy-saving measures, smart mobility, full carbon offset, the separation of waste streams and continuous investment in a diverse, healthy and happy team.
In addition, we actively support non-profit initiatives which our team is passionate about. We spend 7.5% of annual profits, and devote time, knowledge and network, to such partners.
Waterland acquires underground infrastructure specialist Van Vulpen
Van Vulpen, a specialist in underground infrastructure, has found a new owner in Waterland Private Equity. The majority interest of Mentha and the management’s shareholding will be fully transferred to Waterland, with the current management reinvesting.
Van Vulpen is one of the top contractors in the Netherlands focusing on underground infrastructure, particularly in regard to electricity, gas and water. The Gorinchem-based company specializes in horizontal directional drilling, which enables it to lay pipelines and cables underground over large distances with minimal impact on the environment. Van Vulpen is highly regarded for the quality it delivers, its process-based approach and its leading position in the field of sustainability.
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