Presentation
A major regional operator in the French professional training market
Management
Thierry Mangin, Sébastien Picard
Investment date
February 2024
Operation type
MBO
Activa Capital’s shareholding
Majority
Revenue
15 M€
Localisation
Grand Est, headquarters in Toul
Project
In February 2024, Activa Capital became the group’s reference shareholder, alongside Thierry Mangin, Chairman and Founder, and Sébastien Picard, Managing Director. This first LBO also enabled the two Deputy Managing Directors, Julien Matter and Mathieu Piquard, to increase their stake in the company.
Founded in 2004 by Thierry Mangin, GO! Formations is a major regional operator in the French professional training market. Since inception, the company has grown exclusively organically and benefits from a solid leadership position in the CACES industry, with unrivalled geographical coverage, industrial facilities and production capacity in the Grand Est region. With its regulatory and business-specific training courses, GO! Formations targets industrial, construction and transport-logistics sectors and trains more than 38,000 trainees a year, within 12 different centers.
Activa Capital’s plan, alongside the managing partners, is to support GO! Formations in expanding its territorial coverage and its training offer, while providing its expertise in primary operations. The group has the right assets to become a leading consolidator at a multi-regional level, an area in which Activa Capital will be able to actively support it.
