What our portfolio companies say about us
The partnership with Wise Equity has enabled Tapì to successfully realise an ambitious development project and become the global leader in the design, production and distribution of high-end closures for the premium and super premium spirits and condiments segment. In Wise Equity team we found a deep understanding of Tapì’s market, its business model and the growth opportunities for internal and external lines; this made it possible to share all the most important strategic choices, always aiming at long-term objectives for the company. Thanks also to Wise Equity’s specific expertise in M&A, together we have finalised three acquisitions, which have enabled a significant acceleration in growth, leading Tapì to quadruple its turnover during the fund’s investment period.
The Wise Equity team has shown itself to be a unique partner in the challenging and stimulating Private Equity world. They demonstrated a long-term approach in key decisions (including five acquisitions and significant investments in technology, including a renewal of the aircraft fleet and the introduction of dynamic pricing) and devoted themselves to the pragmatic resolution of problems. They have truly been a valuable partner.
Together with the Wise Equity team, we experienced exciting years of growth. Passion and a desire to understand the business were constants in our daily interactions. The pragmatic and business-oriented approach greatly facilitated the work of the entrepreneur and the management team, both in ordinary operational management as well as in extraordinary corporate transactions. Four acquisitions in five years and many other projects brought to a successful conclusion is the best testament to an effective team effort, where the priority was always dictated by the elements essential to the creation of value and a strengthening of the company’s competitive position.
It has been a long and profitable adventure, with a gratifying end. Working with the Wise Equity team has meant sharing a process of logical reasoning and effective, innovative strategies. Wise Equity was attentive in its approach to valuing the foundation of our core business – human capital – and careful not to overstep operational management boundaries while continuously evaluating the way forward together. Day-by-day, quarter after quarter, acquisition after acquisition, we accompanied a start-up all the way to a stock exchange listing, becoming the first and only listed Employment Agency in Italy. We escorted the company in planning and fulfilling an entrepreneurial dream without posing limits, but rather with increasingly challenging objectives.
The Wise Equity team demonstrated an uncommon industrial approach and from the first day worked with management to implement the business plan in a difficult moment for our sector. Through Wise Equity’s network, we identified potential acquisition targets in Italy and abroad and, in a short time, we completed two strategic acquisitions that contributed to a doubling of operating margins and an expansion of the product portfolio, strengthening the group’s competitive position.
From our first contact, I appreciated the Wise Equity team’s approach. Their focus was more industrial than financial, concentrated on the growth of our company and its personnel. Together, we laid out a business plan that called for building an integrated platform for the components world and subsystems for railway rolling stock, including through extraordinary corporate transactions. We completed two acquisitions and a joint venture in China. Of no less importance was the focus on human resources, with a carefully planned generational transition and the continuous development of individuals who assumed the managerial leadership of the group over time.
