Aachen — S‑UBG AG has sold its shares in Vier­­sen-based WS Quack & Fischer GmbH to the company’s family share­hol­ders. This marks the end of an 18-year invest­ment part­ner­ship that began in 2002 with S‑UBG’s invest­ment in the pack­a­ging company. With the addi­tio­nal equity, WS Quack + Fischer has reali­zed growth plans and arran­ged for succes­sion by the next family generations.

S‑UBG as a long-term part­ner for growth financing
WS Quack + Fischer was formed in 2001 from the merger of WS Verpa­ckungs GmbH and Quack & Fischer GmbH, which was in need of restruc­tu­ring. Follo­wing the restruc­tu­ring of the merged company, the Aachen-based finan­cial inves­tor, toge­ther with the co-share­hol­­ders, took over the shares of depar­ting share­hol­ders. Since then, the pack­a­ging mate­ri­als produ­cer has contin­ued to deve­lop and was able to achieve sales of 30 million euros in 2019 with 110 employees. “We conti­nue to see good pros­pects for WS Quack + Fischer,” says Bern­hard Kugel (photo), CEO of the S‑UBG Group. “Thanks to early succes­sion plan­ning and steady growth, the company is ideally posi­tio­ned for the future.”

Succes­sion ensu­red for the long term
The two family share­hol­der trunks Eicker and Schmitz, toge­ther with their succes­sors, have posi­tio­ned them­sel­ves with long-term profes­sio­nal and entre­pre­neu­rial perspec­ti­ves and have been able to signi­fi­cantly increase sales and earnings in recent years. In parti­cu­lar, Mana­ging Direc­tor Thomas Eicker has alre­ady proven his worth as succes­sor to foun­ding part­ner Heinz Eicker. The succes­sion of the Schmitz family tribe is also secu­red for the long term. “Trust and trans­pa­rency have always been the foun­da­ti­ons of our coope­ra­tion with S‑UBG,” says Mana­ging Direc­tor Thomas Eicker.

About the S‑UBG Group
The S‑UBG Group, Aachen, has been the leading part­ner in the provi­sion of equity capi­tal for estab­lished medium-sized compa­nies (S‑UBG AG) and young, tech­­no­­logy-orien­­ted start-ups (Tech­Vi­sion Fonds I) in the econo­mic regi­ons of Aachen, Krefeld and Mönchen­glad­bach for over 30 years. S‑UBG AG invests in growth sectors; high quality of corpo­rate manage­ment is a key invest­ment criter­ion for the invest­ment company. 2020, Tech­Vi­sion Fonds I für die Region Aachen, Krefeld & Mönchen­glad­bach GmbH & Co. KG was laun­ched toge­ther with NRW.BANK, the savings banks of Aachen, Krefeld and Düren, Kreis­spar­kasse Heins­berg, Stadt­spar­kasse Mönchen­glad­bach, Noma­in­vest, DSA Invest GmbH, inves­tors from the Dr. Babor Group and other private inves­tors. It provi­des around 40 million euros in seed capi­tal for the start-up scene in the region. Tech­Vi­sion Fonds I emer­ged from Seed Fonds III for the Aachen, Krefeld and Mönchen­glad­bach region. As an exten­sion of Seed Fund III, Tech­Vi­sion Fund I now seeks to parti­ci­pate in subse­quent finan­cing rounds (Series A/B) of exis­ting port­fo­lio compa­nies in addi­tion to seed invest­ments. The S‑UBG Group curr­ently holds stakes in just under 40 compa­nies in the region, giving it a leading posi­tion in the Spar­­kas­­sen-Finan­z­­gruppe. www.s‑ubg.de