Building world champions, since 1872
With a prestigious heritage and a resolute focus on innovation and excellence, Compagnie Chargeurs Invest has been building world champions for over 150 years.
Today, thanks to its dual industrial and financial culture, Compagnie Chargeurs Invest is developing a portfolio of assets made up of international champions with unique expertise.
A hybrid operator-investor model
For more than 150 years, Compagnie Chargeurs Invest has been distinguished by its unique expertise in building global champions in industry and services. Today, Compagnie Chargeurs Invest supports the development of a portfolio of global champions operating in nearly 70 industrial and commercial sites.
In addition to its role as an industrial operator, Compagnie Chargeurs Invest is also asserting its role as an investor, with a culture of active management of its portfolio of businesses.
This dual model of operator and investor enables Compagnie Chargeurs Invest to work with its various business lines to support their development and devise new business models in order to develop and optimise the value and impact of its portfolio of assets, with a view to long-term asset management.
A portfolio of assets structured around 3 thematic platforms
Compagnie Chargeurs Invest has built its portfolio of high value-added assets around 3 thematic platforms in which it has a competitive advantage.
CULTURE & EDUCATION
Museum Studio : World leader in cultural engineering and production, serving museums, brands and foundations
FASHION & KNOW-HOW
Chargeurs PCC : World leader in technical textiles for luxury and fashion
Luxury Fibers World leader in trading traceable natural fibres and top-of-the-range worsted wool for fashion professionals
Personal Goods Three high-end luxury leather goods and accessories brands: Swaine, Cambridge Satchel and Altesse Studio.
A portfolio of global champions on 5 continents
Throughout its 150-year history, Compagnie Chargeurs Invest has made internationalisation its hallmark. From its beginnings as a shipping company with Chargeurs Réunis to its current portfolio of 5 businesses with unique expertise, Compagnie Chargeurs Invest has never stopped pushing back the frontiers, on every continent.
Today, its portfolio of global champions spans nearly 100 countries.
The stability of a family and institutional shareholder base long-term
In 2015, Michaël Fribourg became the new reference shareholder and Chairman and CEO of Compagnie Chargeurs Invest. Under his leadership, Compagnie Chargeurs Invest has undergone a profound transformation, with strong growth in its existing businesses and brands and the creation of new business lines that are world champions in their markets.
In 2024, following a successful public tender offer, the Groupe Familial Fribourg and its institutional partners will control more than 67 % of Compagnie Chargeurs Invest's capital.
Today, Compagnie Chargeurs Invest benefits from a first-rate family and institutional controlling shareholder base, fully aligned with its ambitions and long-term vision.
This new capital structure gives Compagnie Chargeurs Invest the stability and solidity it needs to deploy its strategy of sustainable value creation.