Leading Italian branded B2B distributor of professional cleaning and hygiene products.

Objective

Invest alongside the founding family and an experienced management team to consolidate Golmar’s leadership as the reference distributor of professional hygiene and cleaning products in Italy, leveraging its distinctive proprietary brand, nationwide capillary salesforce and robust logistics platform. Opportunity to accelerate growth through identified organic initiatives and a targeted buy-and-build strategy in a fragmented market, supported by the Company’s strong fundamentals, proven cash-flow generation and exposure to attractive and resilient end-markets.

ENTRY
September 2025
TREND

Changing Consumer Behavior; Sustainability Drive; Supply Chain Resilience

COUNTRY

Italy

SECTOR

Services

The Team

Riccardo Collini - Apheon Team
Riccardo Collini
Partner | 
Italy
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Nicolò Bruno - apheon Team
Nicolò Bruno
Associate | 
Italy
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Fabrizio Bertozzi - Apheon Team
Fabrizio Bertozzi
Director | 
Italy
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Our manifesto: contributing to the development of sustainable finance

Sustainability generates long-term and higher value

Apheon’s ambition is to contribute to the development of sustainable finance by placing sustainability at the core of its strategy and demonstrating by example that it delivers higher and better value for portfolio companies and investors.
 
We are convinced that businesses that respect the planet, that look after their employees and that support their communities will in turn attract the best talent, differentiate themselves from their competition and ultimately emerge as the strongest in the future.

A holistic and collective approach

To succeed with this strategy, Apheon believes a holistic and collective approach is fundamental.

Holistic: it is essential that all aspects of ESG are equally and continuously supported. This is why we are active at every stage of the investment cycle by applying proprietarily developed methodologies and initiatives which are built on 5 priorities covering the broad ESG spectrum:

  • Sustainable revenues (strategy): increasing, when applicable, the share of revenues which directly benefit the environment and/or society

  • Carbon (environment): reducing emissions

  • Talent (social): creating a positive working environment which will attract, develop and retain the best talent

  • Youth, diversity and inclusion (societal): fostering a more inclusive society

  • Transparency (governance): reporting on metrics transparently, and being transparent on potential obstacles
Collective: we believe that it is only through collective action that we can create significant impact. This is why it is our intention to pull together Apheon’s entire ecosystem to undertake our ESG initiatives. This includes mobilizing our employees, portfolio companies, investors, external experts, charitable organizations, public institutions and peers. At this time of global transition, we believe that sustainable finance plays a key role in advancing towards a sustainable planet and society. Financial players, in particular private equity firms such as Apheon, are in a position to drive forward action by leveraging their business model of transforming companies. Apheon is keen to play such role and to move forward every day with humility but also conviction.