For the city of Brno, we provide comprehensive consultancy in preparation for the construction and long-term operation of a new multifunctional hall for 13 thousand spectators.
We have prepared a business plan for the hall, a funding gap analysis and assistance for the approval of public support for the project at the European Commission. We also provided expertise in the development of concession documentation and in the selection of a private operator, and last but not least, we ensure the financing of the entire project in amount of about EUR 90 million.
For the European investment company Cube Infrastructure Managers (Cube), we provided transactional advice on the acquisition of 100% of MVV Energie CZ.
The energy group MVV Energie CZ serves customers in 15 cities in the Czech Republic and is one of the leading producers and suppliers of thermal energy. In 2021, MVV Energie CZ sold 690 GWh of heat and 170 GWh of electricity, and its turnover in the economic year 2020-2021 was 2.1 billion CZK (EUR 85 mil.).
Michal Tesař, partner of NEWTON Business Development / Pandion Partners, shared his personal view on the development of the Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) market in Central and Eastern Europe for the third time in a FORDATA report.
This time with the theme “It will be a tough challenge for companies to maintain strong performance levels”. At the same time, he presented on this topic at the FORDATA WEBINAR.
Michal Tesař presented and participated in the discussion as part of the Financing of brownfield projects panel at the Brownfields Conference 2022 in Dolní Vítkovice.
Already in the previous year, at the Brownfields 2021 Conference in Český Krumlov, he presented the topic of using PPP concept in brownfield projects. Collection of presentations from this conference is available here.
Michal Tesař, partner of NEWTON Business Development / Pandion Partners, shared his personal view on development of the M&A market in the Central and Eastern Europe. It is second time when he participated in the FORDATA M&A report for CEE region. This time with “The Weight Of Resilience” theme.
Michal Tesař, Partner at NEWTON Business Development / Pandion Partners, advised to Eva Čejková and other original founders of start-up Testuj.to in the process of Heureka Group capital entry.
Initial acquired stake is 15% with possibility to increase it to 40%. See more details at the following press release.
About Testuj.to
Testuj.to service is a marketing tool for brands or e-shops, which actively work with their customer communities and want to get fast and exact feedback for their products and services. It is also about generating serious customer reviews. This easy plug-in solution is suitable for all web portals and allows to work with micro influencers for fraction of financial and time costs than by creating their own solution.
About Heureka Group
9 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, over 20 million visitors per month and a network of over 55,000 online stores. This is the Heureka Group, Europe’s largest price comparison website and online shopping advisor.
Prague, February 2019 – Michal Tesař and David Průdek through their company NEWTON Business Development, a.s. together with Jindřich Ullrich from ppm factum group invested in dynamically developing project of nutritive balanced SHAKE-IT drinks. The goals of the investment are mainly to expand on foreign markets and to accelerate the development of new products.
Company Fronies s.r.o. has been manufacturing cereal drinks under the brand SHAKE-IT for almost two years. SHAKE-IT is a drink that simply saturates stomach from hunger. It is a meal in the form of drink, or a snack that you can drink easily. Its ingredients are purely natural, having positive effect on your body. Their combination creates nutritive balanced mix. There are no added aromas, colourants and preservatives. For sure, you can screen each particular ingredient item in your mind, not a chemical formula. SHAKE-IT is gluten-free, vegan and has high level of proteins, fibre and has also very low glycaemic index. A special protein variant has been developed not only for sportsmen.
All SHAKE-IT drinks represent healthy alternative to fast food meals. They are convenient as a rich breakfast, a snack or a fast lunch, if you are in hurry. The drinks have iconic packaging design, which is inspired by pop-artist Roy Lichtenstein. You can easily just pour milk or water into the SHAKE-IT cup with all the cereals and other ingredients in line with your taste. And then just SHAKE-IT and Enjoy!
SHAKE-IT has already gained plenty of satisfied consumers, both from the broad public and professional sportsmen. The drinks are currently available in more than 200 healthy products shops, e-shops and sport places.
New investors got 25% stake. The majority is held by the founders and the main faces of the project – Honza and Pavel Fronček brothers.
There is an international conference Private financing of the Czech Transport Infrastructure in context of the D4 PPP Pilot Project, on 27 November, 2018 in Prague. Michal Tesař, Partner of NEWTON Business Development, a.s., will be there presenting & discussing about his experience in preparation and realization of concession projects on the Czech market..
Acquisition of language school James Cook Languages.
NEWTON Business Development, a.s., further continues in helping the Czech language education market consolidation. We have advised our client – Solotron – in acquisition of language school group James Cook Languages active on the Czech, Slovak and Polish markets. It is about two years after the takeover of EDUA Group, a leading educational group on the Czech market, and a year after the takeover of JIPKA language school group.
Medico Clinic strengthens its position by entering Gynekologie Zenklova
NEWTON Business Development, a.s., provided its advisory services at the strategic investor’s entry – Medico Group – into a company Gynekologie Zenklova, s.r.o., which provides gynaecological services at Prague 8. The transfer of 100% share on the company was realized on 18 April, 2018.
For the city of Brno, we provide comprehensive consultancy in preparation for the construction and long-term operation of a new multifunctional hall for 13 thousand spectators.
For the European investment company Cube Infrastructure Managers (Cube), we provided transactional advice on the acquisition of 100% of MVV Energie CZ.
Michal Tesař, partner of NEWTON Business Development / 
Michal Tesař, Partner at NEWTON Business Development / 
