Munich \u2014 Afinum Achte Betei\u00adli\u00adgungs\u00adge\u00adsell\u00adschaft mbH & Co KG, advi\u00adsed by Afinum Manage\u00adment GmbH, indi\u00adrectly acqui\u00adres a majo\u00adrity stake in the Sander\u00adStroth\u00admann Group, a leading full-service provi\u00adder (CDMO) in the fast-growing market for cosme\u00adtics, beauty and health\u00adcare products. Afinum invests toge\u00adther with the two mana\u00adging direc\u00adtors Sabrina Berg\u00adhaus and Stefan Vogels in the context of an entre\u00adpre\u00adneu\u00adrial succes\u00adsion situa\u00adtion. Toge\u00adther with the manage\u00adment team, Afinum will support the group in conti\u00adnuing the successful growth path of the past years.<\/p>\n
The Sander\u00adStroth\u00admann Group (www.sanderstrothmann.de, \u201cSander\u00adStroth\u00admann\u201d), consis\u00adting of the two group compa\u00adnies Sander\u00adStroth\u00admann GmbH and Compes Cosme\u00adtic GmbH & Co. KG (\u201cCompes\u201d), is a leading certi\u00adfied full-service CDMO (Contract Deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment and Manu\u00adfac\u00adtu\u00adring Orga\u00adniza\u00adtion) in the fast-growing market for cosme\u00adtics, beauty and health\u00adcare products. Typi\u00adcal Sander\u00adStroth\u00admann custo\u00admers have their own brand and\/or distri\u00adbu\u00adtion chan\u00adnel, but often lack the neces\u00adsary exper\u00adtise to deve\u00adlop and manu\u00adfac\u00adture beauty and health\u00adcare products (e.g. global e\u2011commerce platforms\/social media networks\/influencers, pharmacies\/drug stores\/stationary retail\u00aders, home shop\u00adping provi\u00adders and beauty centers).<\/p>\n
In addi\u00adtion to custo\u00admi\u00adzed cosme\u00adtic products, the broad product range also includes bioci\u00addes, disin\u00adfec\u00adtants as well as nutri\u00adtio\u00adnal supple\u00adments with a specia\u00adliza\u00adtion in active ingre\u00addi\u00adent cosme\u00adtics and health-promo\u00adting \u201cproblem solvers\u201d. The IP\/formulation remains in the posses\u00adsion of Sander\u00adStroth\u00admann. Thanks to the in-depth group-inter\u00adnal know-how along the entire value chain (market analy\u00adsis, product deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment and formu\u00adla\u00adtion, design and pack\u00ada\u00adging, regu\u00adla\u00adtory aspects and appr\u00adoval proce\u00addu\u00adres, purcha\u00adsing and logi\u00adstics, produc\u00adtion and filling, quality assu\u00adrance, after-sales), Sander\u00adStroth\u00admann is distin\u00adgu\u00adis\u00adhed by its full-service offe\u00adring, high flexi\u00adbi\u00adlity, very short deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment and imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion time, and \u2014 espe\u00adci\u00adally with a view to the fast-growing Asian market \u2014 its \u201cMade in Germany\u201d quality promise. The Group opera\u00adtes an asset-light busi\u00adness model. Thus, most of the produc\u00adtion is outsour\u00adced to trus\u00adted exter\u00adnal part\u00adners, while the in-house Compes manu\u00adfac\u00adtu\u00adring exclu\u00adsi\u00advely produ\u00adces high-quality cosme\u00adtic products for Pres\u00adtige Beauty brands.<\/p>\n
Sander\u00adStroth\u00admann GmbH was foun\u00added in 2000 by Michael Sander and Rene Stroth\u00admann, who acqui\u00adred a majo\u00adrity stake in Compes in 2019 as part of an add-on acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion. The two Group compa\u00adnies toge\u00adther employ around 160 people at the joint site in Georgs\u00adma\u00adri\u00aden\u00adh\u00fctte, Lower Saxony, where the two certi\u00adfied (inclu\u00adding DIN EN ISO 13485 for medi\u00adcal products) high-tech labo\u00adra\u00adto\u00adries with state-of-the-art equip\u00adment are also operated.<\/p>\n
Afinum invests toge\u00adther with the two mana\u00adging direc\u00adtors Sabrina Berg\u00adhaus and Stefan Vogels in the context of an entre\u00adpre\u00adneu\u00adrial succes\u00adsion situa\u00adtion, wher\u00adeby the foun\u00adders Michael Sander and Rene Stroth\u00admann will conti\u00adnue to support the group as stra\u00adte\u00adgic advi\u00adsors in the future. Toge\u00adther with the manage\u00adment team, Afinum will support the Group in conti\u00adnuing the successful growth trajec\u00adtory of the past years, inclu\u00adding by further streng\u00adthening its posi\u00adtio\u00adning in exis\u00adting and new geogra\u00adphies and by progres\u00adsi\u00advely expan\u00adding its product and custo\u00admer portfolio.<\/p>\n
The invest\u00adment in Sander\u00adStroth\u00admann repres\u00adents the eleventh plat\u00adform tran\u00adsac\u00adtion of Afinum Achte Betei\u00adli\u00adgungs\u00adge\u00adsell\u00adschaft mbH & Co KG.<\/p>\n
About Afinum<\/strong><\/p>\n AFINUM Manage\u00adment GmbH is an inde\u00adpen\u00addent manage\u00adment-owned invest\u00adment company with offices in Munich, Zurich and Hong Kong, specia\u00adli\u00adzing in invest\u00adments in successful medium-sized compa\u00adnies in German-spea\u00adking Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Munich \u2014 Afinum Achte Betei\u00adli\u00adgungs\u00adge\u00adsell\u00adschaft mbH & Co KG, advi\u00adsed by Afinum Manage\u00adment GmbH, indi\u00adrectly acqui\u00adres a majo\u00adrity stake in the Sander\u00adStroth\u00admann Group, a leading full-service provi\u00adder (CDMO) in the fast-growing market for cosme\u00adtics, beauty and health\u00adcare products. Afinum invests toge\u00adther with the two mana\u00adging direc\u00adtors Sabrina Berg\u00adhaus and Stefan Vogels in the context of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-private-equity-en","category-news-en","category-investors","news-category-private-equity-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n