Hanover\/Munich. NORD Holding has deci\u00added to take the mega\u00adto\u00adpic of sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity or ESG into account and to set a corre\u00adspon\u00adding focus both intern\u00adally and on the port\u00adfo\u00adlio side. The start\u00ading signal for this is the parti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adtion in the ESG soft\u00adware pioneer VERSO, which has also been successfully repre\u00adsen\u00adted on the market with consul\u00adting and trai\u00adning for seve\u00adral years. NORD Holding intends to intro\u00adduce the soft\u00adware solu\u00adtion in its 15 asso\u00adcia\u00adted compa\u00adnies and thus stan\u00addards in sustainable corpo\u00adrate management.<\/p>\n
With its invest\u00adment in VERSO, NORD Holding is rely\u00ading on one of the few ESG soft\u00adware solu\u00adti\u00adons that has been estab\u00adlished over many years and has now grown into a holi\u00adstic service provi\u00adder in the area of corpo\u00adrate sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity. VERSO supports compa\u00adnies to acce\u00adle\u00adrate their Sustainable Trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion effec\u00adtively and effi\u00adci\u00adently: From \u201cMission Zero\u201d (carbon accoun\u00adting, reduc\u00adtion and offset\u00adting), to ongo\u00ading sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity manage\u00adment, to ESG report\u00ading, a focus area of VERSO. The company is thus ideally posi\u00adtio\u00adned to bene\u00adfit from the EU-CSRD (Corpo\u00adrate Sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity Report\u00ading Direc\u00adtive) in the long term.<\/p>\n
VERSO addres\u00adses the incre\u00adasing need for digi\u00adta\u00adliza\u00adtion and know\u00adledge in various areas of sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity in SMEs through the direc\u00adtive for capi\u00adtal market-orien\u00adted compa\u00adnies issued in 2017 and the Europe-wide exten\u00adsion to smal\u00adler SMEs deci\u00added in 2022. In addi\u00adtion, there are further incre\u00adasing regu\u00adla\u00adtory chal\u00adlenges (e.g. Supply Chain Act), for which VERSO is alre\u00adady successfully prepa\u00adring its customers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe take our respon\u00adsi\u00adbi\u00adlity seriously: Toward our inves\u00adtors and share\u00adhol\u00addings, but also toward society and the planet. For us, the mega\u00adtrend of sustainable trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion, and thus the area of ESG, is a key value driver. At the same time, we are deve\u00adlo\u00adping ESG stra\u00adte\u00adgies with all our invest\u00adments to make our port\u00adfo\u00adlio more sustainable and thus, not least, more compe\u00adti\u00adtive. VERSO alre\u00adady offers a strong and estab\u00adlished solu\u00adtion for compa\u00adnies across all indus\u00adtries and bene\u00adfits from more than a decade of expe\u00adri\u00adence. Toge\u00adther with VERSO, we can ther\u00ade\u00adfore make a signi\u00adfi\u00adcant contri\u00adbu\u00adtion to our own port\u00adfo\u00adlio both on the opera\u00adti\u00adons side of NORD Holding and on the invest\u00adment side from the massi\u00advely incre\u00adasing demand in the sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity segment,\u201d says Chris\u00adtian Moritz Kukwa, Prin\u00adci\u00adpal at NORD Holding.<\/p>\n
Andreas Maslo, Co-Foun\u00adder and CEO of VERSO<\/strong>, comm\u00adents: \u201cWe are commit\u00adted to a great mission: To acce\u00adle\u00adrate the sustainable trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion of the economy. But in order to imple\u00adment our stra\u00adtegy to this end, we don\u2019t just need fast money, but the right growth part\u00adners. After many discus\u00adsions with a wide variety of inte\u00adres\u00adted parties, we made a very conscious decis\u00adion in favor of NORD Holding. We were convin\u00adced by an inves\u00adtor with deep roots in the German SME sector, a genuine desire for trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion and a trans\u00adpa\u00adrent share\u00adhol\u00adder struc\u00adture. In addi\u00adtion, NH\u2019s domain exper\u00adtise in soft\u00adware, consul\u00adting and now ESG speaks for itself. We are now incre\u00addi\u00adbly looking forward to jointly buil\u00adding the leading ESG soft\u00adware and consul\u00adting service provi\u00adder in the German-spea\u00adking region. Thus, we will be able to support compa\u00adnies even more effec\u00adtively in their trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion towards sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity and further acce\u00adle\u00adrate the process.\u201d<\/p>\n The invest\u00adment was carried out by the two NORD Holding teams Busi\u00adness Services and Software\/Technology and under\u00adlines the sector compe\u00adtence in the area of tech\u00adno\u00adlogy-enab\u00adled services. On the part of NORD Holding, the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion was imple\u00admen\u00adted by Chris\u00adtian Moritz Kukwa, Chris\u00adtoph Grune\u00adwald, Moritz Stolp and Korne\u00adlius Karl Komischke.<\/p>\n About VERSO<\/strong> About NORD Holding<\/strong> In contrast to most other finan\u00adcial inves\u00adtors, who only manage time-limi\u00adted funds, NORD Holding acts as a so-called \u201cever\u00adgreen fund\u201d with no time limit and invests from its own balance sheet. The company is curr\u00adently invol\u00adved with more than 15 compa\u00adnies in Germany and other German-spea\u00adking count\u00adries. The Fund Invest\u00adments busi\u00adness unit targets the micro and small cap segment of mid-market-orien\u00adted private equity funds in Europe. The focus here is on primary, secon\u00addary and co-invest\u00adments. NORD Holding focu\u00adses stron\u00adgly on buyout mana\u00adgers newly estab\u00adlished on the market, opera\u00adtio\u00adnal invest\u00adment stra\u00adte\u00adgies and also regu\u00adlarly acts as an anchor investor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hanover\/Munich. NORD Holding has deci\u00added to take the mega\u00adto\u00adpic of sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity or ESG into account and to set a corre\u00adspon\u00adding focus both intern\u00adally and on the port\u00adfo\u00adlio side. The start\u00ading signal for this is the parti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adtion in the ESG soft\u00adware pioneer VERSO, which has also been successfully repre\u00adsen\u00adted on the market with consul\u00adting and training [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1367,1368,1369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46636","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-lawyers-tax-advisors-auditors-en","category-lawyers-tax-consultants-auditors","category-investors"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nVERSO supports medium-sized compa\u00adnies holi\u00adsti\u00adcally in their Sustainable Trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion with its soft\u00adware (SaaS) solu\u00adtion and services for sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity manage\u00adment. Consul\u00adting and trai\u00adning in CSR report\u00ading, manage\u00adment and climate accoun\u00adting make VERSO a compre\u00adhen\u00adsive part\u00adner for corpo\u00adrate sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity and ESG. Sustaina\u00adbi\u00adlity mana\u00adgers profes\u00adsio\u00adna\u00adlize and digi\u00adta\u00adlize their CSR manage\u00adment with VERSO or bring even more effi\u00adci\u00adency into their exis\u00adting proces\u00adses, above all CSR report\u00ading. In addi\u00adtion, VERSO supports compa\u00adnies on their way to climate neutra\u00adlity. VERSO GmbH, based in Munich, was foun\u00added in 2010 by Andreas Maslo and Florian Holl and is now mana\u00adged by the two foun\u00adders toge\u00adther with Nuvia Maslo. www.verso.de<\/p>\n
\nWith over 50 years of history and assets under manage\u00adment of \u20ac 2.5 billion, NORD Holding is one of the leading private equity and asset manage\u00adment compa\u00adnies in Germany. The focus is on the busi\u00adness areas of direct invest\u00adments and fund invest\u00adments. The focus of the direct busi\u00adness is on the struc\u00adtu\u00adring and finan\u00adcing of corpo\u00adrate succes\u00adsion models, the acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion of group parts\/subsidiaries and the expan\u00adsion finan\u00adcing of medium-sized companies.<\/p>\n