Enhance

Accent focuses on enhancing equity value through active ownership, focusing on improving operational performance through revenue growth, margin expansion and improving the strategic position of the underlying business. Accent will target investments where the potential for value creation exists in the following enhancement areas:

• Revenue growth - organic growth through improved business models focused on targeting new customers, improving pricing strategies or entering new markets. Organic growth may selectively be combined with acquisitive growth opportunities that Accent will help source, execute and integrate.
• Operational efficiency - scope for margin expansion and capital efficiency improvements at all levels of the company's operations, benchmarking its performance against peers to identify sources of underperformance. Where appropriate Accent will seek to introduce tighter financial controls, cut costs, rationalise product lines evaluate supply chains and refocus R&D efforts.
• Strategic position - refocusing of internal resources, refinement of existing business models, growth enhancement and repositioning of the portfolio company in order to create market leadership are instrumental for a successful exit. Accent believes that many companies in the mid-market, especially non-core units of larger companies, have not had the opportunity or incentives to optimise their strategic position.