Advent buys Caldic

Advent International, one of the world’s largest private equity investors, has agreed to buy Netherlands-based distributor Caldic from Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Advent International, one of the world’s largest private equity investors, has agreed to buy Netherlands-based distributor Caldic from Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Terms were not disclosed and the deal should close in 1H 2022.

Caldic is active in life sciences and speciality chemicals, including cosmetic ingredients. It employs around 1,200 people across 35 sites in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific and turned over about €1 billion in 2020. Advent intends to merge it with its existing operation Grupo Transmerquim, one of only two chemical distributors to cover the whole of Latin America.

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