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Matching growth and Sustainable Development |
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Eurazeo provides long-term development support to its investments. This approach is part of a broader vision that takes social and environmental stakes into account. At each investment phase, Eurazeo proves that it is primarily a responsible shareholder.
Prior to any acquisition, Eurazeo conducts detailed due diligences, by thoroughly analyzing multiple areas such as the social, environmental and governance aspects of the target. In the development phase, Eurazeo works openly with the company’s managerial team around a clear vision of the goals to be reached and the actions to be undertaken in the short, medium and long term. Matching the shareholder’s interests to those of management is a key factor in value creation.
In 2008, Eurazeo signed the charter drafted by AFIC, the French Private Equity association. The charter gives a public voice to the values that the Private Equity companies want to promote, the responsibilities that they bear and the commitments that bind them.
Eurazeo sees Sustainable Development as an opportunity to boost performance and a growth driver for the future. That is why it has decided to involve all its investments and employees in an approach that will be deployed in the long-term.
Eurazeo is convinced that Sustainable Development helps to achieve better risk control, fuels innovation and contributes to optimizing corporate performances and therefore promotes value creation. That is why Eurazeo initiated in 2008 a study of segment challenges and an inventory of the Sustainable Development approaches of its investments. Purpose: identify development potentials and help the companies to structure their thoughts and initiatives on environmental and social issues.
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Our commitments to our investments |
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As a responsible shareholder, Eurazeo vigorously helps to create value in the companies in which it invests. Eurazeo is convinced that sustainable development is a source of value creation, hence its decision to support its investments in implementing and streamlining their sustainable development policies. That is why an external firm was requested to carry out an assessment.
Objectives: perform an inventory of strategies and performances and compare them to the sector’s practices, highlight the development potential and target new opportunities to promote their deployment. This study highlighted the levels of variable maturity depending on the investments: although some of them have a business model that already integrates the principles of sustainable development, others are now being studied or in the process of preparing their strategy.
For several years now, Eurazeo is involved in a corporate philanthropy policy involving assistance to charities working on general interest projects in various areas (medical, social, childhood, etc.). Eurazeo provides financial help over a period of two to three years, in line with a genuine intention to share the value created.
L’ENVOL / helping kids fight serious chronic diseases
www.lenvol.asso.fr
By supporting L’ENVOL, Eurazeo helps to restore hope and joy to very sick children.
L’ENVOL is a charity created in 1994 and officially recognized as a “public interest” organization since 2001 with the creation of a European recreational therapy center. The Center offers recreational facilities to kids aged between 7 and 17 years and affected with serious chronic diseases, in the context of short vacations.
Located in an idyllic setting – the Château de Boulains, in the middle of the Fontainebleau forest – the center proposes numerous activities to kids from France and Europe: swimming pool, theater, dance, horse riding…The aim is to break up their isolation and the infernal cycle of disease while proving unobtrusive, efficient medical care.
Henri Tézenas du Montcel, former Chairman of Université Paris-Dauphine, is the initiator of this project with the support of Paul Newman, the actor. Professor Gérard Lenoir, Head of the general pediatrics wing of the Necker hospital, is currently the chairman of the association.
“We are totally and fully committed
to restoring joy to all kids who need it.”
ELA / Encourage research to cure myelin diseases
www.ela-asso.com
Numerous children are born with leukodystrophy disorders, genetic diseases that destroy the sheath around the nerves of the nervous central system. Eurazeo supports ELA (European Leukodystrophy Association) to fight against these terrible diseases that cripple the vital functions.
Since 1992, the association, sponsored by Zinédine Zidane, harnesses all energies to make the world aware of these orphan diseases, to finance medical research and help families seriously affected by this tragedy.
To move faster towards finding a cure, the European Leukodystrophy Association created a research foundation dedicated to all myelin diseases in 2005. The foundation comprises the world’s top specialists in the matter. The Foundation was launched with the significant support of the Ministry for Research. It receives advice and support from leading corporate executives.
“We are aware that the fight against rare diseases
require a great deal of funds. We are proud to be part of
an initiative that seeks to promote research.”
Primo Levi Association / Supporting torture victims
www.primolevi.asso.fr
Eurazeo is very sensitive to the problem of torture and political violence that is why it continues to support the Primo Levi association.
Created in 1995, the association provides psychic and psychological care, as well as social and legal support to victims. The treatment of people who have suffered from torture, which exists in numerous countries, requires specific care which is not provided in the mainstream public health system. Primo Levi therefore offers customized care, as well as training for professionals working with refugees or asylum seekers.
The Association also helps victims to bear witness and seek redress, often together with other non governmental organizations. These actions are aimed at defending the right to asylum and educating the public and political leaders about the reality of torture worldwide.
“Today, no-one can ignore the phenomenon of torture
and political violence. We should do everything in our power
to wipe out this terrible scourge.”
SNC / Unemployment, an evil to be fought
www.snc.asso.fr
Eurazeo, a socially-responsible company, continued to support Solidarités Nouvelles face au Chômage (SNC).
Solidarités Nouvelles Face au Chômage (SNC) is a non-political, non-denominational association organized under France's 1901 Charity Act and created by Jean-Baptiste de Foucauld. Since 1985, it has a commitment to build social ties and cultivate active citizenship through initiatives to mobilize society and build solidarity with people seeking employment.
“As a key economic and social development operator
through our business, we could not remain insensitive
to the problem of unemploymente.”
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 Eurazeo encourages talent… and women!
In 2008, Eurazeo supported the “The Rising talents” program, organized in the
context of the Women’s Forum..
The purpose of this program is to identify, throughout the world, twenty talented
women aged between 25 and 35 years, and to help them develop their potential
and their talents for tomorrow. In partnership with the The Women’s Forum and
Egon Zehnder, Eurazeo helped to prepare a coaching and “handknit”
networking program for each winner, a genuine spring board for their career
and their future..
Eurazeo believes that women have a key role to play, within the company and
more generally within the company.
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