{"id":49261,"date":"2022-06-01T20:21:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franchisingbelgium.be\/?p=49261"},"modified":"2022-06-01T20:21:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:21:02","slug":"tom-co-wil-groei-versnellen-met-verlinvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchisingbelgium.be\/nl\/tom-co-wil-groei-versnellen-met-verlinvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom &#038; Co wil groei versnellen met Verlinvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Het <a href=\"https:\/\/franchisingbelgium.be\/nl\/franchises\/tomco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">franchisenetwerk\u00a0<strong>Tom &amp; Co<\/strong><\/a>, de Belgische keten van dierenspeciaalzaken wil met geld van investeringsfonds\u00a0<strong>Verlinvest<\/strong>\u00a0 via overnames een leider worden op de Europese markt.<\/p>\n<h2>Groei versnellen<\/h2>\n<p>Verlinvest, de holding van de familie de Spoelberch, neemt een belang in franchise keten Tom &amp; Co. Het isniet gekend over welk bedrag het gaat maar volgens De Tijd verwerft het fonds zowat de helft van de aandelen. Met het kapitaal wil de retailer zijn groei versnellen om een belangrijke speler te worden in Europa.<\/p>\n<p>Het franchisenetwerk Tom &amp; Co boekte de afgelopen twee jaar recordresultaten: de omzet groeide in 2020 met 15% en in 2021 met 10%, tot 264 miljoen euro. De retailer heeft nu 180 winkels, waarvan 129 in Belgi\u00eb, 2 in Luxemburg en 49 in Frankrijk. Ook e-commerce is een groeipool. De hele sector doet het overigens goed: tijdens de lockdowns namen meer mensen een huisdier en gaven ze er ook meer geld aan uit.<\/p>\n<h2>Langetermijnvisie<\/h2>\n<p>Nu wil de franchiseketen van dierenwinkels verdergaan op zijn elan in de rest van Europa. Eigenaars Thierry Le Grelle, Lionel Descl\u00e9e en Philippe Dechamps\u00a0gingen afgelopen najaar op zoek naar een investeerder\u00a0om die groei mee te financieren. Die hebben ze nu gevonden in Verlinvest.<\/p>\n<p>Dat investeringsfonds werd in 1995 opgericht door de familie de Spoelberch, die ook aandeelhouder is van\u00a0<strong>AB InBev<\/strong>. De holding investeert vooral in groeibedrijven in FMCG en gezondheid, waaronder merken als Oatly, Vita Coco, Tony\u2019s Chocolonely, Vitaminwater en Remy Cointreau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVerlinvest deelt onze langetermijnvisie en is een expert is in het bouwen van sterke merken\u201d, zegt Tom &amp; Co-topman Thierry le Grelle. \u201cMet de steun van deze nieuwe aandeelhouder zullen wij actief kunnen deelnemen aan de consolidatie van de sector door overnames en zo onze ambitie kunnen waarmaken om een leider te worden op de Europese markt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bron: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retaildetail.be\/nl\/news\/algemeen\/tomco-wants-new-owners-european-expansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Retail\u00a0 Detail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Het franchisenetwerk\u00a0Tom &amp; Co, de Belgische keten van dierenspeciaalzaken wil met geld van investeringsfonds\u00a0Verlinvest\u00a0 via overnames een leider worden op de Europese markt. Groei versnellen Verlinvest, de holding van de familie de Spoelberch, neemt een belang in franchise keten Tom &amp; Co. Het isniet gekend over welk bedrag het gaat maar volgens De Tijd verwerft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":49264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualiteit-van-de-franchiseconcepten","category-nieuws-uit-de-sector"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tom &amp; Co wil groei versnellen met Verlinvest - Franchising Belgium<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Het franchisenetwerk\u00a0Tom &amp; Co, de Belgische keten van dierenspeciaalzaken wil met geld van investeringsfonds\u00a0Verlinvest.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/franchisingbelgium.be\/nl\/tom-co-wil-groei-versnellen-met-verlinvest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tom &amp; Co wil groei versnellen met Verlinvest - 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