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TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT AND AUTOMOBILES

 Description
 The team
 Areas of intervention
 Investment criteria
 Our portfolio
 Sector press releases
 Brochure (PDF)

DESCRIPTION

By investing in the transportation equipment and automotive industries, the Solidarity Fund QFL stimulates economic development and helps make the transportation of people and goods more efficient. The ground transportation equipment industry is a vast activity sector that encompasses automakers (OEM and aftermarket), specialty vehicles (ambulances, trailers, heavy trucks, bucket trucks, dump trucks, etc.), recreational vehicles, motor coaches, city buses and school buses, as well as the railway industry (subways, engines and railway cars).

THE TEAM

	Claude Delâge Investment Director Transportation Equipment and Automobiles  Profile Phone : 1 800 361-5017 (7971) Email : cdelage@fondsftq.com
	Raynald Aubin Portfolio Manager Transportation Equipment and Automobiles  Profile Phone : 514 383-2576 Email : raubin@fondsftq.com

AREAS OF INTERVENTION

· Growth and expansion
· Working capital
· New-product development and geographical market diversification
· Mergers and acquisitions
· Buyout by a family successor or management team

INVESTMENT CRITERIA

· Competent, dynamic, credible teams with operating experience
· Shareholders/executives receptive to investors, alliances and partnerships
· A sound, ambitious business plan
· Strong competitive advantages and a solid distribution network
· Growing market or potential growth through acquisitions
· Suppliers or sub-contractors that are strategic to industry order givers
· Respectable size order giver in the industry

RECENT PRESS RELEASES

October 19, 2007, Montréal
Solidarity Fund QFL Contributes to the Creation of Acton Vale-Based Camoguid Evolution

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BROCHURE

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