Avril Group, the 5th largest French food industry group and industrial and financial operator in the vegetable oil and protein sector, announces having successfully completed its inaugural Schuldschein debt issuance (German private placement) for an amount of €90 million.
In keeping with its development objectives, the Group thus acquires additional resources to drive its growth. The company continues to diversify its sources of financing, after successfully raising €1.180 billion from its banking partners this summer.
This new financing, having a maturity of 5 to 7 years, is also indexed to achieving extra-financial objectives by integrating three ESG criteria.
This transaction was structured by Natixis and Société Générale, including ING and La Banque Postale as CSR advisors, together with consulting services provided by Lazard Bank and UGGC.
Aymeric Mongeaud, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Avril, commented, "I am delighted with the success of this initial offering, which reflects the Group's ambition of combining financial and non-financial performance criteria. It is a testimony to the strength of our model and the confidence investors place in our Group."
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Avril is pleased to announce the success of its first schuldschein debt offering for an amount of €90 million
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Avril is pleased to announce the success of its first schuldschein debt offering for an amount of €90 million
08/12/2022
About Avril
5th largest agri-food group in France, Avril is the industrial and financial leader in the French vegetable oil and protein sector. Created by the agricultural world, the Group develops innovative, healthy and sustainable solutions to feed people and animals, and accelerate the decarbonization of the planet. Its purpose, Serving the Earth, guides its actions, in line with its ambition to become by 2030 the leader in plant transformation, serving the agricultural, food and environmental transitions.
In addition to its historic role as an investor, the Group is now a manufacturer firmly rooted in plant processing, from seed to processed product. Active in human food, animal nutrition and expertise, renewable energies and green chemistry, it deploys a portfolio of activities that are all leaders in their markets.
Strengthened by this link with the French farm, Avril has based its growth over the past 40 years on a unique value-creation model: it reinvests all its profits in the dynamics of the industry and its development in France and abroad.
Present in 19 countries with nearly 7,500 employees at 69 industrial sites and sales offices, Avril achieved sales of 8 billion euros in 2023.
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