Jean-Mathieu started in M&A at Société Générale before focusing on private equity with different teams. In 30 years, Jean-Mathieu has supported more than 70 companies with a common thread: innovation and international growth.
Ten years ago, Jean-Mathieu became convinced of the critical role internal expansion plays in a company’s development and viability, creating the first fund for French exporting firms, or firms that want to export. Capital Export combines equity, grants and subsidies, expertise, and local networks and partners to directly meet the needs of business owners and managers with a strategy centered around international expansion.
Charles-Antoine joined Capital Export in 2013, after two years with XAnge Private Equity and Amundi Private Equity.
He has been involved in more than 10 transactions (LBO and Expansion Capital). He is a graduate of ESSCA Paris.
Florian joined Capital Export in 2020, after 3 years with Eight Advisory, where he worked on more than 15 transaction and restructuring projects, including many cross-border assignments. Florian previously worked for Airbus and Bosch, both in France and Germany.
Florian graduated from HEC Paris and the University of Mannheim (Germany).
ACFRI
The French leader in blast chilling and deep freezing
ACFRI was founded in 1987 in Bondoufle, France. The company designs, manufactures, and sells a complete range of blast chilling, deep freezing, and controlled thawing solutions. These products (cabinets, tunnels, and digital platforms) are mainly for industrial use and supermarkets, central kitchens, food services, and bakery products. ACFRI is also expanding into the health sector, in human plasma preservation and the use of eutectic plates (namely for transporting vaccines).
The group has outstanding R&D and innovative capacity, becoming globally known for precise and consistent temperatures, its mastery of refrigerant fluids, and excellent monitoring and traceability systems. The company has cutting-edge products in terms of energy efficiency and eco-design, conferring a true competitive advantage that will be further bolstered by the upcoming launch of products that comply with future regulations.
With Capital Export’s support, ACFRI will expand into promising international markets such as Germany, the Middle East, and Asia.
“Capital Export will help us gain access to the deepest foreign markets to drive our aggressive international expansion strategy through organic growth and acquisitions, all while improving our relations with our key clients. Thanks to our new shareholder structure, which is strongly united around key executives, we’re very confident about this new and promising step.”
“ACFRI is a leader and technological trailblazer in a market that is undergoing structural growth. Its technological advances, which already comply with future regulatory standards that will prohibit many refrigerant gases in the short term, provide a powerful competitive advantage. Increasing global concerns about food quality, safety, and health mean that ACFRI has extensive export potential over the long-term.”
