Investment might sound alluring and daunting at the same time. While promising and potentially highly profitable, it also bears almost inevitable risks, which becomes especially pressing if you choose to invest in growth markets.
This article explores the approach of Alta Semper, an investment company specializing in African healthcare markets, and its success story with Health Plus Limited. Stick around to find out how growth market investment can be both rewarding and within acceptable risk levels.
Alta Semper: Investing in Growth Markets
Alta Semper Capital is a company specializing in private equity management, founded by Ronald Lauder, the Chairman of Clinique Laboratories and former US Ambassador to Austria, the Chairman of Rockefeller Foundation Richard Parsons, and Afsane Jetha. It focuses on investment in African businesses in healthcare and adjacent domains showing primarily regional aspirations.
Among key benefits of the company’s approach, Alta Semper names the following:
- Leveraging in-depth knowledge of Africa as a region to build customizable investment strategies rather than treating the whole continent as a homogeneous asset class;
- Taking opportunities provided by Africa’s rapid socio-economic development over the recent time, which has been bringing about new patterns in healthcare and consumer goods consumption;
- Adopting a flexible long-term approach instead of hunting for a quick profit to negotiate the inherent uncertainties and take advantage of the changing economic and demographic landscape of Africa.
Explore Regional Healthcare Businesses with Alta Semper
Typically, this implies healthcare platforms that currently prioritize vertical integration into the respective distribution channel or supply chain. They share typical investment risks with businesses in retail and medical sectors using the buy-and-build platform model as well as family-owned businesses that learn while institutionalizing.
This kind of setting favors long-term strategic investment management. It is vital that investors build lasting partnerships with like-minded businesses and are prepared to adjust their approaches to the changing landscape over the long run.
Lack of medical insurance, as well as governmentally funded access to medical services, is typical of many countries in Africa. The same largely applies to the continent’s consumer sector.
Alta Semper cooperates with pharmacy chains and other businesses in both domains to bring in much-needed capital that will foster the development of these sectors. Read below to learn about the company’s cooperation with Ernest Eguasa, Chief Financial Officer at HealthPlusNigeria.
Meet West Africa’s Fastest-Growing Pharmacy Chain
With over 80 retail stores across Nigeria, Health Plus is currently the most rapidly developing chain in West Africa and also the first integrative pharmacy platform. Founded by a veteran in the industry, it has won a solid reputation for offering authentic products and recently welcomed Chidi Okoro to gain a new level of profitability.
As a company currently controlling the chain’s majority shareholder, Alta Semper has committed to injecting capital into it that will promote growth and development. Ernest Eguasa, Chief Financial Officer at Health Plus, has been working at the company’s office in Lagos for over 2 years and is focused on building and implementing an all-around financial strategy, a decision that’s in sync with Alta Semper’s philosophy. This includes major business process re-engineering, which has also been implemented by Eguasa.
We hope to see the cooperation foster the development of modern, legally compliant pharmacy chains free of counterfeited products.
Flexibility and Strategy Over the Long-Term Horizon
Healthcare in Africa is an underexplored terrain that offers lots of possibilities but is also rife with challenges. Alta Semper leverages its experts’ deep-sector knowledge to partner with novelty-friendly professionals in the area such as Ernest Aguasa from Health Plus to profit by accelerating development.
Now, let’s talk. Do you feel like you’ve seen major changes in the pharmacy infrastructure recently? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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