Mike Scott, Paul Hancock, Johan Botha
Inge Le Grange, Elsabe Tromp, Jessica Yeomans
Cris Dillon, Gary Shayne, Karsten Wellner
C2C’s vision is to acquire remarkable businesses at fair values, in a bold and innovative way, and to develop these businesses to generate a significant increase in value.
C2C achieves its vision by taking a semi-active ownership role in its portfolio of companies, and creating value by partnering the management teams in order to improve strategic, operational and leadership capacity.
C2C’s strategy is to acquire and build platform companies that can add synergistic bolt-ons and to further develop the companies in which it has invested, while ensuring that a strong management team is in place in each company to focus on the day-to-day operations.
In this way, C2C has consistently produced excellent returns for its shareholders and co-investors. This includes 10 acquisitions, of which three have been successfully realised.
The team at C2C has a track record of over 10 years in private equity investment, as well as personal experience in establishing and operating successful trading enterprises. C2C represents a unique combination of entrepreneurial skill, innovation and stability. C2C is a value investor, using its own balance sheet and senior and mezzanine debt to finance its investments rather than raising a 2&20 fund from third parties.
C2C is able to operate quickly, and with minimal red tape and procedures. This, together with an entrepreneurial disposition, has earned C2C the reputation for being the partner of choice for business owners looking to exit from their companies as well as successful management teams looking for an equity partner to assisting in management buy outs.
C2C supports the Ubuntu Football Academy as part of its corporate social responsibility.
Ubuntu is an African expression of togetherness, describing that what I am is intrinsically linked to what we are. Their mandate is to nurture the next generation of great African leaders and footballers.
Berkshire Hathaway AGM 2011 – Gary and Cris attended as they are keen followers of Buffet's Investment Philosophies