Buyout PE
Rockwood Private Equity
Rockwood Private Equity acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Sandton, South Africa. It states a focus on industrials & manufacturing and construction.
Stated investment criteria
What Rockwood Private Equity says it buys
Read from Rockwood Private Equity’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.
Source
A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. Nothing here is a commitment by Rockwood Private Equity to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Rockwood Private Equity lists on its own website. 10 carry a stated investment year.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bravo Lounge | 2008 | 18 | — |
| Bravo Sleep | 2008 | 18 | — |
| Safripol | 2016 | 10 | — |
| Tsebo Solutions Group | 2016 | 10 | — |
| Global Roofing Solutions | 2021 | 5 | — |
| Kwikspace | 2021 | 5 | — |
| Nouwens Carpets | 2022 | 4 | — |
| Prominent Paints | 2022 | 4 | — |
| EnviroServ | 2023 | 3 | — |
| Welfit Oddy | 2025 | 1 | — |
| Bravobrands | — | — | — |
| Globalroofs | — | — | — |
| Oddy | — | — | — |
| Tsebo | — | — | — |
Compiled from Rockwood Private Equity’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which Rockwood Private Equity is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 2 recorded exits, most recently in 2016.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tsebo | Sold | Wendel Group | 2016 | $395m |
| Safripol (Pty) Ltd. | Sold | KAP | 2016 | $309m |
Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.
Valuation context
Transaction values in Industrials & Manufacturing
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