We finance your growth and your changes

Our choice of investment in a company is dictated by four criteria and convictions: a validated business plan, ambitious growth projects, a local presence and a long-term vision.

Your company :

  • Has sales of between €2 million and €1,500 million.
  • Has a value-added activity in a promising market.
  • Needs to accelerate its growth, either organically or through external growth operations.
  • Contributes to maintaining decision-making centers in the regions.
  • Helps develop the local economic fabric and jobs.
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Our financial expertise

Capital investment

Minority shareholder
Alone or in syndication
Investment capacity
From 300 K€ to 15 M€
Completed if necessary by other structures of the Crédit Agricole Group
Reason for investment
Development
Transmission or takeover (LBO)
Recomposition of the shareholding
Investment on own funds
Duration of the investment
Patient capital, in line with the business cycle

Private debt

Without conventional pledge of shares
Alone or in syndication
Investment capacity
From €3M to €10M
Completed if necessary by other structures of the Crédit Agricole Group
Reason for investment
Development
External growth
Transmission or takeover (LBO)
Financing of working capital
Investment on own funds
Duration of the loan
From 7 to 10 years old
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Carvest in figures and in investments

28
Collaborators
300
Millions of euros invested
140
Regional SMEs and ETIs supported

Center & Great East

The values that make up our DNA

1

Commitment

To be at the level of the company’s manager as an investor. Our involvement, reactivity, proximity and accompaniment materialize our commitment.

2

Agility

Build a financing solution that best suits the company’s needs. Our expertise, organization, community and adaptability are a source of agility.

3

Collective

To be part of a project logic and to be at the service of the Crédit Agricole Group. Our pools of skills and crossed views feed the collective.

4

Humility

Remain a minority investor and be non-intrusive in the company. Our support, positive contradiction and defense of the territory make our humility.

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Our integration into the Crédit Agricole Group

As a subsidiary of 11 Crédit Agricole Regional Banks, we share more than a single shareholder. Our raison d’être is to act in the interest of the customer and to support the regional ecosystem. Our long-term vision and our territorial coverage also create the proximity necessary to meet tomorrow’s challenges and to remain in touch with the field.

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