Grand Parade Investments Company Description

Grand Parade Investments Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in incubation, PIPE's, industry consolidation, recapitalizations, buyouts, and growth capital investments.

It considers investments in seed and startup, middle market, mature, turnaround, and emerging growth stages.

The firm typically invests in leisure, tourism, and gaming sectors and also considers investments in property, retail, food, manufacturing, real estate and entertainment.

It seeks to invest in Africa with a focus on South Africa and Western Cape. The firm primarily invests between R$10 million ($0.84 million) and R$1000 million ($84.98 million) in companies with enterprise value greater than R$300 million ($25.50 million).

The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. It may enter into joint ventures and other similar alliances, whereby it forms partnerships with such entities, contributing not only capital, but also providing strategic managerial input.

The firm prefers to take minority or majority stake in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to take more than 20 per cent stake, however a smaller stake is also considered where there is the potential to increase such stake in the future.

It seeks to make balance sheet investments. Grand Parade Investments Limited was founded in 1997 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Grand Parade Investments Limited

Country	South Africa
Founded	1997
Industry	Restaurants
Sector	Consumer Discretionary
Employees	3,317
CEO	Gregory Bortz

Contact Details

Address: 33 Heerengracht Street Cape Town, 8001 South Africa
Phone	27 21 412 1400
Website	grandparade.co.za

Stock Details

Ticker Symbol	GPL
Exchange	Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Fiscal Year	July - June
Reporting Currency	ZAR
ISIN Number	ZAE000119814
SIC Code	7990

Key Executives

Name	Position
Gregory Mark Bortz	Group Chief Executive Officer and Board Member
Gayasuddin Ahmed	Group Chief Financial Director