Launched in 2002, Creadev is an evergreen investment company operating worldwide, supporting companies able to scale-up and become global best players in their sector. To make this happen we believe that the shareholder’s timing should match with the entrepreneur’s vision, up to an unlimited amount of time. We are backed by the Mulliez family, who share their global footprint network and their entrepreneurial spirit.
The Mulliez family’s business is an autonomous federation of over 200 companies, which employ about 600,000 people in more than 35 countries. Leading businesses include Auchan Retail, Decathlon, ADEO, Leroy Merlin, Boulanger, Flunch etc…
Our DNA
Creadev offers a unique operational support model, based on multi-generational entrepreneurial experience, deep sectorial intelligence, and co-investment with operating partners. We invest patient capital and contemplate long-term success, but work on a day-to-day basis with management teams, devoting time and means to provide the highest level of expertise for each invested company, leveraging on our specific sectorial focus.
We are demanding partners in favourable contexts and benevolent in tough ones. The majority of our annual investment capacity is dedicated to our portfolio companies, in order to accelerate their organic or external growth. Creadev’s support model is enhanced at an international scale through 1 team present on 4 continents.
Our mission is to facilitate access to essential goods & services to the many, through innovative solutions.
Our values
- Share: Because success never comes from a single man, we have deployed a dedicated organization to stimulate the sharing inside portfolio companies and between them.
- Dare: Audacity is at the heart of the Mulliez Family and Creadev’s DNA. We are deeply convinced of the importance of initiatives and innovation at all maturity stages.
- Care: We believe that both customers and collaborators’ development are the most powerful driver for success, and place it at the heart of our support to portfolio companies.