DPI is an active and supportive investor working to complement and help management. Therefore, we partner with strong management teams to deliver returns on behalf of our investors.
DPI’s proprietary toolkits help our companies to go beyond best practice and global standards.
DPI
Value Add
Value Add
Opportunities
- Lean management/ operational excellence programmes
- End-to-end greenfield project management
- Working capital optimisation
- Supply chain and procurement optimisation
- Pricing optimisation
- Turnaround execution if needed
- Operational turnaround of West African QSR business including working capital optimisation, cashflow management, and sales turnaround
- Lean six sigma programme for North African manufacturing business
- Delivery of greenfield paper plant for North African manufacturing business
Finance & reporting
- Advise on capital markets initiatives (primary and secondary listings)
- Balance sheet and funding optimisation, including responsible debt fundraising
- Best-in-class management information systems
- Exit readiness preparation
- Debt and equity capital fundraising for leading pan-African tower operator
- Support on partial listing of North African pharmaceuticals business
- Implementation of robust management information systems and reporting across the portfolio and at DPI (iLevel)
Governance
- Systematically embed enhanced financial and management reporting
- Developed a proprietary governance toolkit
- Initiated governance training for all DPI team members and portfolio company board members
- Identified and developed key people for formal and informal executive education
- Creation of a proprietary Governance Toolkit used for all new investments
- Assessment of board effectiveness of West African QSR business through an independent board analysis
- Organisation of a bespoke corporate governance training for portfolio companies’ management and board members at the London Institute of Directors
Environmental & social
- Development of an inclusive finance agenda to provide financial services for those who have historically been excluded from the formal financial sector
- Support portfolio companies to demonstrate the highest levels of environmental and health & safety performance through international certifications
- Installation of a sophisticated water treatment plant for North African pharmaceutical business
- Focus on development impact with the creation of better jobs, particularly for women, across our portfolio companies
- Creation of career progression opportunities through development programmes for the employees of West African QSR business and South African parcel distribution company
Growth
- Pan-African expansion strategies
- Product innovation and range extension
- Retail excellence
- Sales force effectiveness
- E-commerce strategy and execution
- Acquisitions, JVs, strategic partnerships
- Post-merger integration and 100-day plans for portfolio companies and portfolio company acquisitions
- Pan-African microfinance company international expansion
- Identified and sourced value accretive bolt on acquisitions across Francophone West Africa for Moroccan university
- Retail excellence programme and roll-out of e-commerce platform (store layout, merchandising, people development)
- Assisted in expansion of product lines and set up of asset management, health insurance/HMO and pension fund administration businesses for West African insurer
Who we work with
When approaching any potential investment opportunity, DPI undertakes rigorous ESG due diligence by a specialist practitioner, which forms part of the deal decision process.
Every investment DPI makes contains a detailed ESG action plan, designed to align the company with the IFC Environmental and Social Performance Standards.