
Paris, September 22, 2016 - NextStageAM reinvests alongside entrepreneurs in the Lease Protect Group in a market consolidation transaction of shrinkage.
Created in September 2009, the Lease Protect Group specializes in combating shrinkage; around, in particular, video surveillance systems, security gates, and customer metering. The two entrepreneurs of the group have been able to develop real expertise with its offer dedicated to small and medium-sized structures that the group supports around a range of value-added services that combines audit and advice on shrinkage, equipment rental, and maintenance at distance from connected equipment.
By opening their capital to NextStageAM in 2014, the founding entrepreneurs of the Lease Protect Group - Patrick Lascar and Mikaël Choucroun - wished be able to accelerate their development project in a fast-growing market; through a strategy focused on the extension of the territorial network from 5 to 8 branches, the diversification of the offer of products and services, as well as external growth.
With this strategic merger, the Lease Protect Group and Adamis Technologies have succeeded in forming the second independent player specializing in the fight against shrinkage in France. This merger of skills will make it possible to offer all their customers a range of complementary solutions and services based on the technical and commercial know-how of a team of over 100 employees, as well as responsiveness and unrivaled proximity thanks to the densification of the territorial network.
“Being strongly positioned on the B to B market with a service and a dedicated offer with high added value, our objective was to offer this quality of service to Key Account customers. From this perspective, it seemed more strategic to us to approach directly an established and essential player in Retail: Adamis Technologies ” Explain Patrick Lascar, President of Group Lease Protect.
Il also specifies that “This operation will allow us to pool our expertise in video surveillance and traffic analysis with the technical and commercial skills of the Adamis Technologies teams. This orientation is now essential to address decision-makers in the Key Accounts market who expect a reliable interlocutor, able to intervene in less than 48 hours on technologies to fight against shrinkage, but also able to support them in their development. internationally.
To Aloys de Fontaines, Director of Investments at Next StageAM : “For two years now, we have been supporting a team of talented entrepreneurs in their development projects which have made it possible to double the size of the group since our entry. And this merger with Adamis Technologies will make it possible to continue to increase the value proposition offered to customers.