With a specialist team of consumer investment professionals and Crescent’s-track record of enduring strong investment results, we have created a platform to connect investors with outstanding mid-market businesses.
Our goal is to create a unique ecosystem of domestic consumer brands led by inspiring management teams who have, until now, had limited access to like-minded capital.
Our Crescent Consumer team is uniquely positioned to help create enduring partnerships, providing capital and expertise to help shape the global category leaders of tomorrow.
Our focus is to partner with inspiring leaders to help build strong brands that matter, creating meaningful equity value as a result.
Over the years, we have observed how small and medium sized consumer brands can achieve incredible results when they are given access to the resources, capabilities and talents typically only available to larger companies.
Our approach is to build on the simple principle of enabling founders and management teams to thrive while focusing collectively on enhancing their company’s scale and processes, resulting in a sustainable competitive advantage.
The Crescent Consumer team brings industry specific knowledge as well as market leading industry networks and tactics that have helped numerous consumer brands grow and thrive.
In our partnerships, we strive to bring sector expertise as well as passion, commitment, humility, and integrity.
We partner with people we admire to help build enduring brands loved by consumers everywhere.
We target sectors that benefit from global secular tail winds and where consumer loyalty, brand/product differentiation and repeat purchase behaviours matter. These factors are key to generate enduring competitive advantage that can last for decades, resulting in significant shareholder value.
While we constantly evaluate a broad range of investment opportunities in the consumer space, we prioritize the following sectors:
We invest in proven and fast-growing consumer brands in sizeable categories. Our flexible mandate allows us to invest in companies ranging from $25 to $200 million in revenue. At Crescent, we look for the following attributes:
We have a specialised team focussed on building successful partnerships with fast growing consumer brands in Australia and New Zealand. We are passionate about what we do and each team member brings deep expertise, experience and knowledge across various pockets of the consumer sector accumulated in both domestic and international markets.
16+ years experience in private equity and investment banking focussed on consumer and healthcare in ANZ, Europe and Asia. Extensive NED experience globally.
Ex Managing Director & Head of ANZ at L Catterton, Investment Director at New Hope Group, Executive Director Goldman Sachs Consumer Healthcare, Nomura and UBS.
Ondrej Ruzicka
Managing Partner Consumer Fund – B.Bus, MBA
Extensive experience in private equity and investment banking with focus on consumer and healthcare sectors.
Ex – Principal at L Catterton, Investment Banking Associate Goldman Sachs Consumer Healthcare, Pacific Capital and Citi.
Giuseppe Valletta
Investment Director – BSc(physics), MSc(physics)
If you are interested in knowing more about Crescent’s Private Equity Consumer Fund, or having our Consumer Fund invest in your business, contact us by completing the form below: