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Founded in 2006 by Franco Uzzeni and headquartered in Paruzzaro (Novara), U-Power is active in the Personal Protective Equipment sector and today is the #1 provider of safety shoes in Europe.

U-Power is recognized by the market as the best brand in terms of safety, comfort, design and technology and offers a premium safety product portfolio. The group was founded with the aim of becoming the most authentic and trusted reference point for worker safety, thus contributing to the quality of life of people through safe, comfortable and innovative protective equipment. Today, U-Power is at the forefront of ESG trends, producing shoes that enable safety and wellbeing for millions of workers. Infact, the group has been focused on the constant search for alternative, environmentally sustainable materials and its product range includes the U-Green and J-Respect product lines, the first 100% Carbon Neutral work footwear in the world.

Founded in 2013 in Copenhagen by four young entrepreneurs and headquartered in Milan, Bending Spoons is a data-driven and data-centric digital company specialized in the acquisition, development and monetization of mobile apps, mainly on Apple’s platform iOS. Bending Spoons currently has a portfolio of 20 apps, boosting over 500 million downloads to date and approximately 100 million monthly active users. The Group is mainly focused on the high-growth photo & video editing category, including the very popular Splice (video) and Remini (photo), with a recent entrance in the sticky note-taking space through the acquisition of Evernote.

Initially established within the Mediolanum Farmaceutici Group, which was founded in 1972 by the Del Bono family, Neopharmed Gentili is independent since 2009, when it was spun-off from Mediolanum Farmaceutici. Neopharmed Gentili is headquarted in Milan, Italy, and is a leader in the distribution of off-patent drugs on the Italian market, particularly in the cardiovascular and neurological area. Neopharmed built its success leveraging a broad and diversified proprietary product portfolio that spans eight therapeutic areas and a specialized salesforce of over 400 pharma representatives (the second largest in Italy) dedicated to the active promotion of brands to General Practitioners and specialists nation-wide.

Founded in 1970 and headquartered in Saint-Ouen, France, Inetum is a Pan European IT services and solutions company specialized in system integration, engineering, consulting, software implementation and maintenance.

Inetum operates across a large spectrum of capabilities across the IT lifecycle: application services, infrastructure services, business solutions, outsourcing, value-added reselling and software. Inetum is a leading player in France, Benelux and Iberia and is present in attractive growth areas such as Africa and Latin America.

Inetum employs 27,000 people and operates in nearly 30 countries serving blue chip corporates and mid-market companies in a wide range of industries, including energy, telecommunication and banking.

Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Fano, Italy, Arbo is the largest independent distributor of spare parts for heating systems in Italy, active also in the distribution of spare parts for Sanitary, Heating & Plumbing and in the distribution of Air Conditioning systems, with nascent operations in Spain and the UK.

Arbo enjoys a hyper-efficient business model based on state-of-the-art logistic and IT capabilities, that allow the company to receive orders with a 6pm cut off time (2 hours later than any other competitor) and deliver the product the following morning, in an environment where immediate product availability is the key criteria for customers.

Arbo employs 250 people and operates 44 points of sale in Italy, 3 in Spain and 1 in the UK, serving more than 27,000 customers every year.

Founded in 1960 and headquartered in Arzignano, Italy, SICIT is a global leader in the production of high value-added sustainable chemical products such as biostimulants for agriculture and retardants for the plaster industry. SICIT is a leading circular economy player that offers a service of strategic importance, transforming and processing the residues from the leather tanning production into fully biodegradable protein hydrolysates for the agrochemical and industrial sectors.

Sicit employs 180 people and operates three highly-automated and technological production sites in Arzignano and Chiampo (Italy).

Sicit sells its products in 90 countries worldwide via its commercial subsidiaries in Italy, China and the US. Its clients are primarily B2B players in the agrochemical and industrial sectors.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Fiume Veneto, Italy, OverIT is a leading vendor of state-of-the-art software solutions for Field Service Management (“FSM”) operations. Specifically, the company supports industry-leading companies to increase their productivity, efficiency and safety through dispatching, optimizing, and mobilizing of the workforce to remote locations, in order to provide installation, repair or maintenance services on assets and customers.

Recognized as “Leaders” and “Visionaries” by the major IT consulting firms (IDC and Gartner), OverIT serves the Energy & Utility, Oil & Gas, Industrial Manufacturing, and Transportation industries with specific product templates.

The company’s products include the Next Gen FSM Platform, designed to cover end-to-end the entire FSM process and enhance a smooth integration with its customers’ application map, and Space 1, which aims at reshaping industries’ processes through Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality.

OverIT employs over 600 people and has offices in Italy, Germany and USA. Part of Engineering Group until December 2021, NB Renaissance and its partners spun-off the company to accelerate its international development and build a global software leader, also following the appointment of Paolo Bergamo – formerly part of Salesforce leadership team – as new CEO of OverIT.

Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Rome, Italy, Engineering is a leading specialist provider of IT services, software development and digital platforms, supporting blue-chip clients in digital transformation projects. Engineering operates in three main areas of activity: (i) Application Transformation: customization or development of digital-related services and new technologies; (ii) Proprietary Solutions: offering of cutting-edge proprietary products, including software and digital platforms; and (iii) Managed Services & Cloud: management and operation of IT processes and infrastructures, including through hybrid and multi-cloud.

Engineering employs approximately 12,000 people, including 525 researchers and data scientists, and is the leading independent player in Italy but also covers more than 20 countries worldwide (mainly Belgium, Germany, United States and Brazil).

Since NB Renaissance’s entry in 2020, Engineering has completed 6 strategic add-on acquisitions to accelerate the implementation of high-value strategic initiatives in Digital Enabling Technology and attractive fast-growing verticals such as e-health, insurance, industry 4.0 and automation.

Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Arzignano, Italy, Rino Mastrotto is the global leader in the production of sustainable leather and textiles to the high-end fashion, furniture and automotive industries. Rino Mastrotto is widely recognized as a strategic partner by many of its clients, with a distinctive technological edge, best-in-class level of service and a global production footprint. The group also offers high value-add cutting, printing and decoration services to clients, both in Italy and abroad.

Rino Mastrotto is a pioneer of the circular economy, by transforming a by-product of the meat industry into a natural, durable and sustainable product, thus avoiding the ecologic impacts of landfilling or incineration. The group adopts best-in-class ESG policies and it is an active promoter with respect to animal welfare, production transparency and traceability. Rino Mastrotto employs 960 people and operates eleven production plants of which nine in Italy, one in Sweden and one in Brazil, as well as a warehouse in the US and two cutting facilities in Mexico.

The group sells its products in nearly 60 countries to tier-1automotive suppliers, global fashion houses and design furniture producers. Since NB Renaissance’s entry, Rino Mastrotto has completed four strategic add-on acquisitions: Nuova Osba, a tannery specialized in the production of high-end leather for the footwear industry based in Italy; Carrol Leather, a wholesale distributor of leather hides mainly for the furniture industry based in the US; Morellino, a provider of premium decoration and printing services for leather and textile products, based in Italy; and Tessitura Oreste Mariani, a premium provider of textile products for the high-end fashion industry.

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Castello d’Argile, Italy, Hydro Holding is the result of the strategic combination of four leading Italian producers of fittings for oleodynamic flexible hoses, namely Tieffe (one of the largest European producers of carbon steel fittings), FB Hydraulic (leader in the production of hose fittings and in the assembling of flexible hoses and rigid pipes), MCS Hydraulics (specialized in the production of stainless steel fittings) and Raccorfer (a cold forming technology specialist).

Hydro Holding provides its customers with a comprehensive product offering with a full range of fittings for flexible hoses, adaptors, assembled hoses and rigid pipes for high-pressure hydraulic systems with main applications in agriculture, construction, mining, material handling and transportation.

Hydro Holding employs 385 people and operates four production plants in Italy and one in the Czech Republic.

Hydro Holding sells its products in more than 60 countries worldwide via commercial branches in Italy, Germany, the UK and Romania. Its clients are primarily assemblers and distributors serving the aftermarket channel, as well as leading OEMs for first-time installations.

Since NB Renaissance’s entry, Hydro Holding completed the acquisition of Hydraulic Professional Service (“HPS”), a Romanian specialized provider of hydraulic solutions and related services such as installation and maintenance.

Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Verona, Italy, Uteco is a leading player in the design, engineering and production of printing machines for flexible packaging. The company is the global co-leader in flexographic printing machines, with prominent positioning in South of Europe and North America, and offers a complete range of printing machines (flexographic, rotogravure, digital and special / hybrid configurations) as well as coating and laminating solutions.

Uteco employs approximately 400 people and sells its machines, fully produced in Italy, to over 100 countries worldwide through both a direct salesforce and external agents. The company boosts over 3,500 machines installed worldwide, also providing a local after-sales service thanks to a global network of warehouses, service points and local technicians. Uteco’s clients are primarily large packaging companies (converters), which print plastic film, paper and tissue mainly for applications in food and beverage.

Since NB Renaissance’s entry, Uteco has completed two strategic add-on acquisitions: Advanced Machinery, a Belgian distributor of printing machines with after-sales capabilities to increase geographical reach in Northern Europe, and Vision, an Italian company specialized in vision systems for quality control and industrial automation to internalize value-added competences.

Founded in 1943 and headquartered in Vigevano, Italy, Comelz is a leading producer of technologically-advanced blade cutting machines, splitting machines and software solutions for the footwear, leather goods and automotive industries.

Comelz' technology is underpinned by a unique combination of the internally developed and patented software with electro-mechanical systems (including CAD/CAM designs solutions) guarantying enhanced production efficiency.

The company employs 370 people and operates three production plants of which two in Italy and one in China.

Comelz sells its solutions in nearly 70 countries through a combination of subsidiaries, representation offices and distributors with clients ranging from major players in the luxury sector to large Asian shoe manufacturers for well-known mass-market sport brands and key suppliers for the automotive industry.

Since NB Renaissance’s entry, Comelz has completed two strategic add-on acquisitions: Camoga, a leading leather splitting machine manufacturer that allowed Comelz to extend its product offering, and Develer, a software house with a team of more than 65 developers and hardware designers focused on CAD/CAM applications.