Founded in 2002, Solutys group is leading French provider and integrator of barcode and RFID technologies answering needs of a diverse set of clients ranging from SMEs to international groups in key sectors such as Transport and Logistics, Retail, and Industry.

With more than 20 years of expertise and a leading position as one the main French partners and integrators of technologies from leaders such as Honeywell, Zebra and Datalogic, the group plays and will continue to play a central role in the fast-moving dynamics of the identification, traceability, and professional mobility fields.

Neovian Partners conducted a strategic review of the company and its markets, by quantifying and forecasting the need for these solutions per client sector and client type, analysing Solutys’ positioning within the competitive environment, evaluating the power relationships with key technology providers, and identifying Solutys’ growth potential and the main development opportunities for both organic and external growth in France and in Europe.

Neovian Partners has also provided Naxicap Partners and Solutys’ management with a preliminary screening of potential targets in key geographies such as Italy and Spain.

Neovian Partners’ team was led by Patrick Richer, Founding Partner and Théo Petitjean, Manager

“Solutys Group is one of the European players generating the highest sales volumes for its manufacturing partners Zebra and Honeywell, which dominate and drive the market. Moreover, it holds a rare position as one of the only true integration specialists making it one of the few players able to offer a comprehensive range of both hardware and software components. This makes Solutys the best-positioned player to address the ETI and SME segments, all the more so as the group leverages a dense network of local offices, guaranteeing a high level of quality and proximity in its service offering.”

Patrick Richer, Partner, Neovian Partners

Paris, June 29th, 2023. The strategy consulting firm Neovian Partners supported Ekkio Capital in their investment in Lorcos, a Contract Manufacturing Organisation, specialised in liquid and solid cosmetics and personal care products.

Created in 1954, Lorcos offers full-service solutions of development, manufacture and packaging of liquid (shower gel, milk, lotion, cream…) and solid (syndet, soap, shampoo, shaving bread…) cosmetics and personal care products to its diversified customer base, mostly composed of both major and smaller independent brands, specialised and generalist distributor brands, parapharmacies, perfumers and foreign manufacturers. The group achieved a turnover of €13.6m in 2021, of which 69% of solid products, 19% of liquid products, 4% of emulsions, 5% of test phase products and 3% of other products.

Neovian Partners analysed the French, European and international markets of cosmetics and personal care products and the demand’s dynamics both for brands and final users. Furthermore, the Strategic Due Diligence successfully fulfilled the objective of evaluating the full competitive landscape and Lorcos’ positioning, image and differentiating factors amongst its most direct competitors.

“ We are pleased to have supported Ekkio Capital in its investment. Today, all brands (both premium and low-cost, specialised and generalist) are in constant search of more eco-responsible and natural solutions in terms of formulation and packaging, thus solid cosmetics and personal care products representing an excellent alternative to existing solutions on the market. Lorcos benefits from decades of capitalised experience, strong relationships with its clients and excellent reputation, especially related to the quality of its products and to its industrial reactivity and flexibility. We are convinced that Lorcos has a bright future ahead on the European market, alongside Ekkio Capital “

About Neovian Partners

Neovian Partners is a consulting firm specializing in the creation of tailored solutions in Strategy, Business Due Diligence, Strategic Screening and HR/Leadership, serving fast-growing investment funds, SMEs and MSCs. Based in Paris and Lyon with a team of about 30 consultants, Neovian Partners is also present internationally, with a network of partner firms with more than 500 employees in 21 countries. Neovian Partners is a generalist firm but with a particularly important project history in software, IT, Internet, Industry, Health and MedTechs, as well as in many niche sectors. More information on : www.neovianpartners.com

The strategy and leadership consulting firm Neovian Partners supported Euclyde Data Centers, a leading operator of regional data centers in France, in the context of the restructuring of its capital, by completing a Vendor Commercial Due Diligence.

Founded in 2009, Euclyde Data Centers specializes in the development and operation of colocation data centers. The group launched France’s first multi-tenant Tier 4 data center in Sophia Antipolis in 2009, and has since gradually expanded to Lyon, Strasbourg, Besançon and Paris.

Euclyde Data Centers provides colocation services, along with a diverse range of connectivity and managed services solutions, to a diversified client portfolio consisting of high-profile companies.

This operation will further strengthen Euclyde Data Centers’ position as a leader in France, while ensuring its continued development thanks to the support of nLighten and I Squared Capital.

Neovian Partners drew on its extensive expertise in cloud services and data center equipment to conduct a strategic review of the Group and confirm the relevance of its positioning from a growth perspective. The main objective was to ascertain the effectiveness of Euclyde Data Centers’ strategy for the coming years.

“ Neovian Partners has carried out a review of demand and competition in the market of Euclyde Data Centres. We were able to assess the Group’s growth potential in its traditional activities, in a context where inflation is weighing on operating costs. Neovian Partners’ due diligence demonstrated that Euclyde Data Centers’ market has promising strong growth prospects propelled by favourable and non-cyclical drivers: growth of data volumes, digital transformation of companies, data governance issues and rise in edge computing”

Patrick Richer, Founding Partner

Neovian Partners’ team was led by Patrick Richer, Founding Partner and Pierre Poiret, Manager.

About Neovian Partners

Neovian Partners is a consulting firm specializing in the creation of tailored solutions in Strategy, Business Due Diligence, Strategic Screening and HR/Leadership, serving fast-growing investment funds, SMEs and MSCs. Based in Paris and Lyon with a team of about 30 consultants, Neovian Partners is also present internationally, with a network of partner firms with more than 500 employees in 21 countries. Neovian Partners is a generalist firm but with a particularly important project history in software, IT, Internet, Industry, Health and MedTechs, as well as in many niche sectors. More information on : www.neovianpartners.com

Paris, February 9th, 2023. The strategic consulting firm Neovian Partners supported Crédit Agricole Anjou Maine and UNEXO in their investment in Hypérion Développement.

Founded in 2002, Hypérion Développement is specialised in real-estate pre-construction, transaction-related and pre-demolition diagnostics. The group has reached a 45m€ turnover in 2021 through its 4 subsidiaries (ADX Groupe, Expertam, Galéna and BCTI), on behalf of social landlords (70% of its turnover), industrial players (10%) and other players such as local authorities, real-estate companies and individuals (20%).

Neovian Partners analysed the main segments of the real-estate diagnostics market in France: pre-construction activities, transactions, and pre-demolition activities. In addition to quantifying and forecasting each market segment, analysing regulatory evolutions, and defining Hyperion’s positioning within its competitive environment, Neovian Partners reviewed the group’s ambitions notably on the opportunities for diversification into new trades and for the development of a promising Building Information Modeling offer.

The team was led by Patrick Richer, Founding Partner and Leonid Dorogoï, Head of Lyon.

“ Hypérion Développement’s wide offer range, reactivity, adaptability, and the quality of provided services at very competitive prices explain the firm’s solid growth over the last 5 years. The market is particularly resilient and the development perspectives for this recognised Top-2 French market leader are numerous, especially in the field of BIM”

Patrick Richer

About Neovian Partners

Neovian Partners is a consulting firm specializing in the creation of tailored solutions in Strategy, Business Due Diligence, Strategic Screening and HR/Leadership, serving fast-growing investment funds, SMEs and MSCs. Based in Paris and Lyon with a team of about 30 consultants, Neovian Partners is also present internationally, with a network of partner firms with more than 500 employees in 21 countries. Neovian Partners is a generalist firm but with a particularly important project history in software, IT, Internet, Industry, Health and MedTechs, as well as in many niche sectors. More information on : www.neovianpartners.com

Paris, 30 January 2023. The strategy and leadership development consulting firm Neovian Partners has supported the investment fund Sparring Capital in carrying out the buy-side Strategic Due Diligence of Kit Utilitaire and MyKitVan.

In line with the “Do It Yourself” trend, Kit Utilitaire enables their clients to fit out their LCV, for all brands, in a quick and intuitive way. The intuitive installation of the kits allows a very quick fitting, without immobilizing the vehicle, which is a major competitive advantage to meet the needs of professional customers. MyKitVan specialises in fitting out vans, having succeeded in setting up a differentiating multi-chassis strategy and surfing on the rise of slow tourism. The group’s activity will also benefit from a new production tool that will enable it to achieve its objectives.

Founded in 2008 and headed by Stephane Poppoff, Kit Utilitaire and MyKitVan have now roughly 35 employees, are nationwide with over 1.100 distributors, more than 5.000 references, multi-channel distribution and have a total turnover of around €12m, growing at a rate of around 20% per year over the last few years.

Sparring Capital’s support will enable Kit Utilitaire and MyKitVan to accelerate their growth and reach the ambitions of the management, also taking advantage of the evangelisation of the vehicle fitting-out offer and the growth of slow tourism.

Under the supervision of Patrick Richer and Sélim Bouaïcha, Neovian Partners has validated Kit Utilitaire’s and MyKitVan’s positioning on their markets and their ability to achieve their Business Plan in the next years.

“ It was a pleasure to accompany Sparring Capital on this exciting project. Kit Utilitaire’s and MyKitVan’s growth prospects are high, in markets that have undergone many changes following Covid-19 and benefit from major growth levers in the future.”

Patrick Richer, Founding Partner, Neovian Partners

About Neovian Partners

Neovian Partners is a consulting firm specializing in the creation of tailored solutions in Strategy, Business Due Diligence, Strategic Screening and HR/Leadership, serving fast-growing investment funds, SMEs and MSCs. Based in Paris and Lyon with a team of about 30 consultants, Neovian Partners is also present internationally, with a network of partner firms with more than 500 employees in 21 countries. Neovian Partners is a generalist firm but with a particularly important project history in software, IT, Internet, Industry, Health and MedTechs, as well as in many niche sectors. More information on : www.neovianpartners.com