LONDON – AMSTERDAM
LONDON – AMSTERDAM

H2 Equity Partners agrees to sell Dümmen Orange to BC Partners after establishing a global market leader

H2 Equity Partners (‘H2’) is pleased to announce the sale of Dümmen Orange to BC Partners, a leading private equity firm. Dümmen Orange is the global leader in the floricultural breeding sector, with a broad portfolio of 3,500 proprietary varieties of cut flowers, pot and bedding plants.

Dümmen Orange’s core business is the development of flower varieties with differentiating characteristics for growers, retailers and consumers, and it produces cuttings which are then supplied to growers globally. Leveraging distinctive capabilities in innovative breeding technologies, a global commercial network, unmatched production scale, and a successful track record of value-creating acquisitions, Dümmen Orange is leading the consolidation of the floricultural breeding sector. Headquartered in De Lier in the Netherlands, with production farms in Central America and East Africa, and commercial presence in all key end-markets, Dümmen Orange employs 5,600 people globally.

H2 created the basis for Dümmen Orange in 2010 by acquiring Agribio from Kirin Holdings LLC. The at that time unfocused portfolio of activities was quickly streamlined into a business purely focused on floricultural breeding. During H2’s holding period Dümmen Orange invested heavily in the strengthening of management, organization and R&D. The current management of Dümmen Orange is highly experienced and has a unique track record in floricultural breeding and adjacent industries. In 2011 a strategic interest was acquired in Genetwister, whereby Dümmen Orange entered the space of advanced breeding techniques. The company became the clear consolidator in the fragmented floricultural breeding industry, evidenced by in total 9 acquisitions since 2010 including a merger with German family owned Dümmen Group in 2013. Today Dümmen Orange is ready to enter the next growth phase focused on bringing value added innovation to grower, retailers and customers and an acceleration of the industry consolidation.

H2 was advised by William Blair as corporate finance advisor. Houthoff Buruma acted as legal advisor and Deloitte acted as financial and tax advisor.

Awaiting regulatory approvals, it is expected the transaction will close soon.

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Henry Stevens

Senior Associate

 

Henry joined H2 in 2024 and is involved in both evaluating new investment opportunities and supporting existing portfolio companies.

 

Prior to joining H2, Henry spent nearly six years at the strategy consultancy firm, Roland Berger, where he was a core member of the Transaction & Investor Services platform supporting private equity and strategic investors across the Industrial and Regulated & Infrastructure sectors predominantly within the mid-market.

 

Henry graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor (Hons) in Economics. His interests outside of work are road cycling where he competes in time trials, running and skiing.

Terry Musson

The Amberon Group is a market leading traffic management provider to the utilities and Local Authority markets. Amberon was established in May 2002 with our first depot in Paignton, South West England. Our founding core principles remain at the heart of everything that we do and our continued desire to achieve our purpose; to provide the best service in the Traffic Management sector. This has been the foundation for our success and has cemented our position as the market leader in TM.

During the initial transaction we never felt under any pressure & instantly recognised we would become part of the family. H2 took the time to listen to our views & business strategy, it was obvious from the very beginning that they would be the perfect partner for us.

The guys at H2 have enabled us to continue the momentum & have provided the expertise & knowledge to help us continue on the journey to constantly improve our service offering.

Working with H2 during the last 2 years has given us additional support not just financially but the advice & expertise has helped analytically & strategically.

The ambition and the drive H2 have is extremely infectious & continues to assist the group to overachieve.

It’s enormously reassuring to know H2 will always be at the end of the phone to offer advice but heartening to know they have the trust in us to deliver.