Building better businesses - Permira

Focused on
long-term growth
Although 2009 was a
challenging year for many of
the funds’ portfolio companies,
none of them lost sight of their
long-term growth ambitions.
Many adjusted their strategies
to ensure that they were able
to compete, maintain their
market-leading positions in
a recessionary environment
and prepare to take advantage
of the recovery. In particular
they continued to invest and
expand into new markets
and geographies, organically
or via strategic acquisitions,
throughout the year.
Acromas
34
Acromas completed a number of
‘bolt-on’ acquisitions including: Drivetech,
a provider of driver training and assessment;
Titan Travel, a UK-based tour operator
that targets the 50+ market; and
AutoWindshields, a British car glass
repair and replacement business
Freescale Semiconductor
50
Freescale Semiconductor has taken
the opportunity to refocus its research
and development activity on its core
markets – automotive and networking;
core market segments – consumer and
industrial; and key trends – clean tech,
health & safety and connected devices
Galaxy Entertainment Group
52
Galaxy Entertainment Group invested in its
StarWorld site, refurbishing and relaunching
its mass gaming floor and creating a new
large-scale poker offer
NDS
62
NDS won a number of new international
customers and laid the foundations to
continue building its presence in new
markets in 2010
Sisal
74
Sisal introduced new lottery games,
enlarged its retail network and started
planning to introduce a new generation
of slot machine terminals
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