Southern Capital Group

Investment strategy
Southern Capital invests in "market leaders", often partnering high quality management to acquire highly differentiated companies, with superior products or market positions in key sectors of the Asian economies - preferring businesses that benefit from Asia's large consumer population or its dominance as the global manufacturing hub e.g. light manufacturing, outsourcing services, specialized financial services, consumer products including food and beverage and healthcare services. Southern Capital has considerable investing and operating expertise in these sectors. Southern Captial's portfolio companies are usually regional or global businesses with substantial operations based in Asia.

Examples of businesses that Southern Capital finds attractive and have invested in are detailed below.

Mentor Media

LBO of No. 1 Last-Mile Supply Chain Management company in Asia

Singapore 's and Southeast Asia's first Public-To-Public acquisition by a Financial Sponsor

Forbes Magazine 2005 December Award for "Best Companies Under a Billion"

Business presence in Singapore, China, India and Europe

Novomatrix

LBO of market-leader in spectrally selective window films in key markets

4 market leading brands - V-KOOL, Huper Optik, Nanolux, IQue

Headquartered in Singapore with presence in 26 countries e.g. China, India, Middle-east, Southeast Asia and USA

Novation Solutions (formerly known as HSBC Precision Printing)

Management-led buyout of market leader in high-end precision, security printing and documents management

Non-core HSBC company with substantial market penetration in Hong Kong

Business presence in China and Hong Kong

Jing King Technology

LBO of Asia's largest independent credit card/smart cards manufacturer and printer

Top 10 global player, with one of the largest manufaturing facilities in China - 600 million cards per annum

Business presence in China and Hong Kong selling to customers globally