CGS UPDATE – the CGS Journal

CGS Update June 2019

Putting words to work

Goals and strategies are defined fast but their implementation demands determination to make sure that the words turn into action. We set our sights high, striving to bring our portfolio companies to the top of global markets using targeted Buy & Build strategies. And the results?

Two more of our groups – SF Tooling and Top-Werk – have made it up to the top worldwide. Top-Werk is also an excellent example of what makes for successful integration. And Photonics Systems Group has successfully taken an important step in its development with an add-on investment.

Entrepreneurial responsibility plays a key role in everything we do and this CGS Update also illustrates how we shoulder this responsibility.

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Investing responsibly – our promise

Entrepreneurship means taking on responsibility: not just in the company’s own value creation chain, but also beyond it. CGS has developed a pragmatic approach that goes much further than responsibly allocating its investors’ capital and anchors this philosophy in the portfolio companies.

More than the individual parts

Forming industrial groups is about acquiring and developing individual companies, as the term Buy & Build says. Both factors of this strategy are key, but the latter is decisive. Bringing independent companies together to form a group that is more than the sum of its parts is an art. The Top-Werk Group is a topical example.

Strategic Growth

Photonics Systems Group is gaining momentum. The group, whose platform company is InnoLas Solutions, has bolstered its business strategically by acquiring LS Laser Systems. This move represents a next step on the way to becoming a globally leading micro-material processing laser machine manufacturer.

CGS builds global market leaders

CGS uses customized Buy & Build strategies to shape medium-sized industrial companies into globally leading groups.