Investments

Founded in 1998, Zabka is the owner of one of the largest network of convenience stores in Poland. With 2,400 stores, Zabka covers all the country, especially in large cities. In 2009, the company launched a new brand, called Freshmarket, which focuses on the medium-sized stores market. Ardian reinvested in the company in June 2013.

Founded in August 1996, NCI was the third largest Chinese player in the life insurance sector with 9% of the market share in 2010. Based in Beijing, NCI has 34 regional subsidiaries. NCI takes advantage of the strong growth of the Chinese market in this sector while seizing opportunites to increase its profitability.

Founded in 2005, Envision Healthcare (ex-EMSC) is the leading provider of emergency medical services in the United States. Envision Healthcare operates in two business segments: the healthcare transportation services with American Medical Response Inc. (AMR) and the physician services for emergency department with EmCare Holdings Inc. (EmCare). Envision Healthcare provides services each year to more than 13 million patients in more than 2,000 communities nationwide.

Founded in 2003 and part of CIR group, KOS employed 4000 collaborators in 2010. KOS is the leading Italian healthcare group in the areas of socio-medical assistance, residential chronic care, rehabilitation and psychiatry, advanced technologies applied to medicine and acute care medicines. The growth of the KOS Group from 2003 to today, due to both the typical characteristics of the healthcare sector and the Group’s ambitious growth objectives, occurred principally via the acquisition of already existing facilities or companies.

With 29 750 collaborators in 2010, Tomkins is a global engineering and manufacturing leading group. This American company manufactures a variety of products for the industrial, automotive and building products market focusing on energy-efficiency and green products.

Fort Dearborn is a leading supplier of high impact decorative labels for big and medium consumer goods' companies working on different sectors. In 2010 this American firm managed a $320m turnover.