Comarch
Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Krakow, Comarch is one of Poland’s leading providers of packaged ERP (“off-the-shelf”) software to mid-market customers and a global provider of bespoke turnkey projects to larger international enterprises.
Comarch has implemented its software in more than 40,000 companies worldwide and employs engineers and business consultants in multiple locations across Europe, including Poland, Belgium, DACH, France, and the US.
Case Studies
Stock Spirits
Stock Spirits holds several market-leading positions in the Central and Eastern European alcoholic beverages sector and has a portfolio of products rooted in local and regional heritage.
This includes 70 brands across a range of spirits including vodka, vodka-based flavoured liqueurs, rum, brandy, bitters and limoncello. The company currently enjoys leading positions in the Polish and Czech markets.
Żabka Polska
Founded in 1998, Żabka is the leading Polish convenience retailer.
The company is among the fastest-growing and largest grocery retail chains in Poland: in the last 23 years, Żabka has grown from a single convenience store in Poznań to a countrywide network of over 8,000 stores all operated by 7,000 talented and entrepreneurial franchisees.
The selected companies are presented solely to illustrate the types of investments that may be made by CVC for one or more strategies, and are not representative of all transactions of any given strategy. References to a particular investment should not be considered a recommendation by CVC. The investments presented were made under market, economic and supply-demand conditions which may not be replicated, and future investments may have characteristics that differ from the case studies presented here. Consequently, there can be no assurance that CVC funds will be able to invest in similar opportunities in the future. It should not be assumed that the case studies presented here or that any investments made in the future were or will be profitable.