Post by Permira

Almost 40 years after first investing in Italy, Permira still sees a huge opportunity to help scale the country’s best-known brands and businesses globally   Francesco Pascalizi, Partner and Co-Head of Consumer at Permira, recently sat down with La Repubblica to discuss what keeps drawing us back to Italian businesses, from Golden Goose to Kedrion Biopharma and K-Way.   Italy's technical strength lies in sectors like luxury, precision engineering, food and pharmaceuticals, and when this is combined with outstanding passion, entrepreneurship, family partnership and talent, it becomes a highly attractive market for a growth-focused private equity investor like Permira. Golden Goose has tripled revenues since the Permira funds’ 2020 investment, largely through global expansion, generating roughly €200m in US sales alone in 2025. Similarly, Kedrion has been able to scale since 2022 through investment in patents, technology and production, as well as M&A, and our latest partnership with the Boglione family to support the international expansion of the iconic brand K-Way is off to a strong start.   Read the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/ehnYQsr2