Scaling Up Businesses

Credo at a Glance

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Spotlight

The latest updates from Credo Partners and our companies

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Investment Philosophy

Scaling up businesses

Credo's investment philosophy remains steadfast: We partner with investors and founders to transform mid-sized companies into scalable and sustainable business systems. The core of what we do is captured in our tagline scaling up businesses. This investment focus is distinct in terms of business maturity and partnership model, as well as the potential for high value creation.

Situation specialist

We look for the right situation in any industry:

• Distinct market positions in attractive segments

• Ambitious owners seeking a partner to further develop the business

• A clear path to creating scalable and sustainable growth

• Transaction values between 100 and 500 MNOK

Our favorite industries are aquaculture, consumer goods, business services, IT services and welfare.

Established methodology

Our basic approach is the same across industries and across financial and non-financial goals. Together with our partners, we set high ambitions that force our businesses out of the small-cap zone. Then we build the foundation for scale and impact: (i) a focused strategy, (ii) a scalable business model, (iii) an organization for tomorrow and (iv) effective governance.

Culture and continuity through founder partnerships

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Credo invests alongside highly motivated entrepreneurs, family owners and management. We encourage our partners to remain large co-owners, even majority-owners, to ensure continuity of the magic recipe that made the company great in the first place. Our model is based on long term and close cooperation between management, board and owners to ensure continuity and commitment through the transformation phase.

Investor network

Credo has an established network of investors. We invest together with individuals and institutional investors who have built successful businesses themselves, and who have a genuine interest in value creation in mid-sized companies. Each investment is carried out through a single purpose vehicle, ensuring 100% commitment to each individual investment.

Sustainable Equity

Our philosophy

Sustainability is an integral part of Credo's investment philosophy. We truly believe that sustainable business models with positive contributions to society will build more financial value. And we believe Credo will have the biggest impact by focusing on positive change in our companies, rather than just allocating capital to already perfectly sustainable businesses. We look for company owners and management with an honest commitment to prioritize climate change, to treat employees well and to govern in a compliant and transparent way.

Our beliefs

Across our portfolio, we believe that:

• Profitable and growing companies play a key role in creating a sustainable future

• We can create competitiveness and financial value by better use of resources: Energy, raw material and people

• Credo has extraordinary influence through our partnership model

• Focusing on a limited number of specific sustainability goals in each portfolio company will have the biggest impact on the overall sustainability agenda

Our strategy

• Create tangible, significant, positive change in every company

• Focus on select few goals with substantial impact potential

• Leverage positive impact to drive financial returns  

• 4 Prioritized sustainable development goals (SDGs)