Press Releases

 

Press Releases

 

19/11/2008 Crédit Agricole Private Equity is to invest in Methaneo, a company that develops          methanisation units,via its FCPR Capenergie fund, alongside Demeter Partners via its FCPR Demeter 2 fund. The two shareholders will invest €1.5 million each.

 

10/03/2008 Demeter Partners strenghtens its team
25/09/2008 The Burgeap group has provided the means of accelerating its development by opening
its capital to the FCPR DEMETER which becomes a shareholder of up to 34% of the
capital, alongside the managers and the main executives.

 

09/16/2008 Demeter Partners, a Paris-based European growth capital firm, announces the 1st closing of Demeter 2 at €125 million. Demeter Partners is dedicated to expansion capital operations, but to early stage operations and majority acquisitions as well, in eco-energies and eco-industries in France and other European countries. The fund was launched in May 2008 with a target size of €200 million and a 1st closing over €100 million.

 

09/08/2008 Demeter invests in the Group JMB ENERGIE. The JMB ENERGIE group managed by Jean-Marc Bouchet is a producer of renewable energy. It operates on the strong growth market of the designing, building and operating of solar and wind power plants, and more commonly of installations producing renewable energy (biogas, hydraulics...).

 

05/07/2008 Demeter invests in the group Le Floch. The Le Floch Group is specialized in depollution and site remediation (engineering, sites’ management, treatment, removal or recycling of

pollutants) and difficult to access works (maintenance of dams, wastewater treatment

plants, wind turbines...).    

 

02/28/2008 Demeter invests in TREZ (Zinc Electrolytic beneficiation treatment). The company carries out a first zinc-bearing hazardous waste process manufacturing plant.

 

12/27/2007 Demeter invests in Panosol. The company is a solar energy installer for private

homeowners and offers thermal solar water heaters’ turn-key solutions, solar heating,

as well as photovoltaic solar panels.

 

11/29/2007

Demeter invests in FCT group. The FCT group is a leader in France on the market

of the instrumentation intended for controls and tests on materials (aggregates,

concretes, rocks...) for civil and mechanical engineering laboratories (administration,

education, public buildings and works sector...) via its subsidiary company CONTROLAB, 

and also present on the instrumentation market on metals (mechanical tests,

metallography, metrology...) for the aviation  and automobile laboratories or metallurgy

via its subsidiary company TESTWELL.

 
11/22/2007 Demeter invests in Ambene. The company designs and exploits thermal power plants using biomass for electricity production. The company integrates the entire value chain, from their energy crops' production to the sale of electricity produced on the interconnected system.

 

11/19/2007

Demeter invests in Eurener. The company manufactures mono and polycristalline

photovoltaic modules and markets photovoltaic solar products. Eurener has a network of

40 franchises of solar products' sale under the Eurener brand in Spain.

 

09/24/2007

Demeter Partners opens an office in Spain.

09/03/2007

Demeter invests in Ternois, first independent company specialized in the design,

construction and exploitation of wastewater treatment plant, thus allowing its CEO

to pursue its development.

 

06/08/2007

Demeter led a buy out operation on VIB, joined by CDC Entreprises with regards to

"France Investissement" plan and in partnership with its former manager.

 

06/06/2007 Succes of Vergnet's IPO on the stock market Alternext
05/29/2007

Demeter invests in Green Gas International, a leader in methane gas management

and utilisation for coal mines and landfill sites.

 

03/26/2007

Demeter, Techfund Capital Europe and Schneider Electric Ventures invested in a

photovoltaïc energy producer, Solaire Direct.

 

02/16/2007 Demeter and Sodena invested in a spanish based company 3S, Soluciones y Sistemas

Solares


12/22/2006  Demeter carried out an MBO operation on IES Synergy


09/11/2006  Succes of Aérowatt's IPO on the stock market "Marché Libre"


10/31/2006  FCPR DEMETER closed at  € 104,5 M


08/22/2006  Reorganization and increase of Vergnet's capital led by Demeter
07/07/2006  Investment in the wind turbine power plants operator Aérowatt

co-led by Demeter and Capénergie


05/03/2006 The Paprec group reorganizes its capital

01/06/2006 Purchase of 25 % of INKAME / ARTESYS capital

12/13/2005 Investment in LACAZE

11/16/2005 Launch of FCPR Demeter–an investment capital fund dedicated to funding European
SMEs acting in sustainable development. (In French only)

 

 

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