Mission statement


 

> designcapital mission statement


In a sizeable and growing market, designcapital strategic objective is to become a major pan European design focused investment company.


To this extent, designcapital will strive to identify, acquire, nurture and grow to global maturity, those companies and brands that, in the next years, will combine creativity and technological innovation to create and to build the design brands of the future, with a focus on:

 

  1. distribution and multi-brand retailing of high-end/luxury design furniture and designed-enabled products;

  2. editing and publishing of high-end luxery design furniture and designed-enabled products;

  3. creation and services related to 1) and 2), and participating to the generation of sales, margins and profitability of 1) and 2): product and furniture design, interior architecture and office design, ….
Business strategy
 
 
> Our company will be developped as an evergreen, and growing, permanent capital company, which overall investment strategy articulates three main medium-term objectives:
 

» retail

Creation of a pan-european multi-brand retailing chain of high-end/luxury, contemporary/modern/design, furniture, encompassing an international network fully owned shops, along with a significant network of affiliated shops, all carrying the same flag name, with bridge-head units located on selected emerging markets.

This retail platform will be created overtime, through a series of acquisitions of both small independent retail shops and larger wholesellers.

 

» edition & brands

Creation of a porfolio of brand editors and producers of high-end/luxury, contemporary/modern/design, furniture, already well-known on their national markets and possibly with an international exposure.
The structuring of this portfolio of brand editors and producers will answer a rationale of market segmentation, brand identities and market positionning, and, above all, of efficient economies of scale. First investment and acquisition targets are likely to be located in France, the Benelux and the northern European countries, and in Spain.

 

» creation & services

Minority stake in an architect-designer firm of international reach, to support its corporate development, and to cross-fertilise our investments in retail and editing/publishing. Investment and/or development of services that participate to the growth of our business model.