QL Clean Luxembourg, Investment consortium specialising in sector consolidation projects
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Specialist in sector consolidation across Western Europe
QL Clean Luxembourg is a holding company incorporated in 2021. Through its subsidiaries, it takes majority stakes in SMEs and brings them together, sector by sector, into larger groups.
We do not invest in one particular line of business. In each sector we select, we choose well-run companies and managing directors who are ready to partner with us.
Bringing together independent companies
Our approach rests on three principles, applied in the same way from one sector to the next.
Consolidating a sector
We develop through external growth. Each company that joins us keeps its name and its local presence.
Partnering with managing directors
We take a majority stake and partner with the existing managing director. Together, we build a project that may include a business succession.
Shared resources
The companies brought together share a finance and administration department, marketing, management tools and the training of their teams.
Why fragmented sectors
In many sectors, supply remains spread across numerous independent companies, often small ones, whose names their customers know.
In these companies, the managing director frequently handles operations, administration and recruitment at the same time. When they consider handing over, they also have to arrange for someone to take over the business.
These are the companies we bring together.
Our investment criteria
We look first at the company and at the person who runs it.
- An SME based in Western Europe.
- A sector that is still fragmented, where other companies can later join the group.
- A company recognised in its market, with loyal customers.
- Teams in place that know their business.
- Sound management.
- A managing director who wants to grow the company within a group, or to prepare its handover.
How we invest
In each company that joins us, we hold a majority stake. We partner with its managing director.
Before any decision, we agree with them on the company’s place among the others and on the functions it will share. The role they wish to keep is part of the discussion.
A succession can also be part of the process. A managing director who wishes to hand over then prepares their succession with us.
What we bring
In an SME, the functions below often rest on the managing director alone. Once brought together, the companies share them.
Management and finance
The finance and administration department is shared. Each company uses the same management tools as the others, from tracking activity to monitoring cash flow. The same goes for email and digital tools.
Marketing and online presence
The companies pool their marketing, from advertising to search engine optimisation for their websites.
Training the teams
The companies organise their training together. An employee gets easier access to it than in a stand-alone company.
Calls for tenders
Answering a call for tenders takes time and a full set of documents. The companies brought together prepare their bids jointly, for public and private buyers alike.
A shared management committee
This committee meets every week to follow the companies’ activity and the functions they share.
The company
- Company name
- QL Clean Luxembourg
- Legal form
- Société anonyme (public limited company)
- Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register (R.C.S.)
- B257167
Check on lbr.lu - EU VAT number
- LU 33623178
Check on VIES - Date of incorporation
- 2 July 2021
- Registered office
- 22, Zone d'Activités Économiques Kehlen, L-8287 Kehlen, Luxembourg
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A question about the company or our approach?
- Telephone
- +352 27 94 08 78
- contact@qlclean.com