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Fives

France

17 October 2012

Industrials

Exited 29 May 2018

Industrials

Fives is an industrial engineering group born 200 years ago. It designs and manufactures process equipment, production lines and turnkey plants for the world’s largest industrial companies in the aluminum, steel, glass, automotive, logistics, cement and energy sectors, both in emerging and developed countries.
In 2011, Fives posted sales of €1.27 billion. It currently employs more than 6,100 people in 30 countries.

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Lise Fauconnier

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Canadian institutional investors CDPQ and PSP investment sign an agreement with management and Ardian to acquire significant minority stakes in industrial engineering group fives

http://www.fivesgroup.com

https://twitter.com/fivesgroup

https://www.linkedin.com/company/fives

We appreciate Ardian’s unique support on our growth path that helped us very much to become market leader and position us ideally for future growth.”

Daniel Schustermann Managing Director of Schustermann & Borenstein

It is an efficient team, determined and confident in its choices, and always attentive to its partners. The relationships of trust that the Ardian team builds over time, with the management teams and, beyond that, with the advisors around them, are part of their DNA.

David Aknin Lawyer

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