Client insights

May 8, 2023

Geothermal Energy: The Solution to Accelerating the Energy Transition?

The Netherlands is well-known for its greenhouse horticulture, which produces crops and flowers that are exported worldwide. However, this large-scale greenhouse production is responsible for 11% of the total CO2 emissions in the Netherlands. In search of a more environmentally sustainable future for the industry, geothermal energy, which involves using heat from deep underground, might be the answer.

Written bij Tarek Hopman and Joeri Schouten

Project Lead at HVC/WNW

April 19, 2023

How to Prevent The Major Pitfalls in Carve-outs

Without a doubt, the current economic environment forces companies across all sectors to find new ways to boost their balance sheets and deliver shareholder value. M&A transactions, specifically divestitures, represent an excellent avenue to accomplish this. In this vein, companies identify and divest the low-performing divisions or those that are not part of the company’s core business.

Written by Brecht Moens

Carve-out expert

April 11, 2023

How to Successfully Manage Consulting Projects as a Corporate Leader

When you move up the ranks as a corporate leader, you will likely manage a consulting team at some point in your career. Consultants can be valuable assets to your organization by crafting new strategies, driving transformation, or implementing digital solutions. Yet, selecting and working with consulting firms is rarely taught, so your first consulting project could be tricky.

Written by Redmar Poortstra

Expert Partner Managing Consulting Teams @ Sweav

April 5, 2023

The case for Digital Operational Excellence in heavy industries

‘Digital Operational Excellence’, using digital solutions to improve process efficiency, is rapidly gaining traction. Especially in heavy industries such as construction, manufacturing, engineering, and energy.

Written by Jeffrey Bouva & Joeri Schouten

Account & Technology Director @ LabelA, Co-founder @ Sweav

March 29, 2023

Daan Freriks (Committed Capital) on the changing dynamics within Private Equity

Daan Freriks is Investment Director at Committed Capital. Recently, Sweav had the honour to support Daan and one of its portfolio companies with their M&A activities.

Written by Joeri Schouten & Daan Freriks

Co-founder @ Sweav

March 20, 2023

Balancing innovation with tradition: A conversation with KNLTB's Pascal Kamp

Pascal Kamp is Senior Manager at the KNLTB. We sat down with Pascal to talk about the big changes in tennis and what it's like to be a forward-thinking and progressive person in a traditional organization.

Written by Joeri Schouten & Pascal Kamp

Co-founder @ Sweav

March 6, 2023

Stef van Hout (Nobian) on transitioning to a sustainable future with one of the biggest PE firms as major shareholder

Stef van Hout is the Strategy & Transformation Director at Nobian, and last year Sweav had the privilege of assisting Stef with his energy reduction strategy.

Written by Joeri Schouten & Stef van Hout

Co-founder @ Sweav

February 16, 2023

The challenging but rewarding B2B digitization journey

After years of lagging behind, B2B digitization is finally gaining momentum. The numbers don't lie – currently, the global B2B e-commerce market is now more than five times larger than the B2C market. This should not come as a surprise since the digital transformation of analogue B2B companies has many advantages. By lowering cost to serve, automating processes, and collecting more detailed customer data, B2B digitization is making organizations more efficient than ever before.

Written by Maarten Steinfort

Expert Partner B2B Digitization @ Sweav

February 7, 2023

Why private equity invests in padel

Have you ever thought about who financed the padel court you're playing on? Probably not. Chances are high it's a private equity firm.

Written by Joeri Schouten

Co-founder @ Sweav

January 16, 2023

Client story: Supporting Otrium's lightning speed growth

Otrium is the online fashion marketplace for outlet fashion: they sell premium brands such as G-Star, Reiss and Scotch & Soda with discounts that can’t be found anywhere else. Milan Daniels and Max Klijnstra founded Otrium in

Written by Thijmen Kaster

Co-founder @ Sweav

January 16, 2023

Client story: Data-driven value creation in B2B manufacturing @ ZND

ZND manufactures and supplies fences all over the world. At the Olympics and the Tour de France, for example. And big chance if you walk past a construction project, there’s a ZND fence around it. In 2017, Rivean took a stake in t

Written by Maarten Steinfort

Expert Partner B2B Digitization @ Sweav

January 16, 2023

How Inflation Killed Three Common Pricing Practices For 2023

2022 will go down as the year in which pricing got on virtually every CEOs agenda. Extraordinary inflation rates forced all companies to be proactive – even those that had been reactive about their pricing thus far.

Written by Jonathan van Spijker Baan

Expert Partner Pricing @ Sweav

January 16, 2023

Expert Article: Two ways to fix a broken e-commerce model

The past decade were the golden years of e-commerce. During the world-wide COVID pandemic, online shopping rocketed to its absolute peak. More recently, however, it seems like this never ending grow-and-flourish period

Written by Thijmen Kaster

Expert Partner E-commerce @ Sweav

Geothermal Energy: The Solution to Accelerating the Energy Transition?

Written bij Tarek Hopman and Joeri Schouten