# RollUpEurope

> The Home of Serial Acquirers

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## Posts
- [Thank God for Rick Ross! How Lemon Pepper Holdings’ chicken shop experiment returned 20x](https://rollupeurope.com/p/wingstop): A rap track-inspired franchise rollout - pitched by a team with no track record. Two family offices said Why Not. BONUS: September Summit full-day tickets sold out 🎉Afternoon tickets still available. Get yours today!  
- [The Rollup of Tomorrow Vol.19: Dyfan Williams on exits to Vista and Thoma Bravo & other learnings from 25 years in Payments M&A](https://rollupeurope.com/p/dyfan): “The pattern I expect to hold is newer companies buying traditional ones for the customer base and the distribution: the hardest thing to build and the easiest thing to buy”. ALSO: 24th September conference now 45% sold + interviewing for the Bootcamp September Cohort.
- [In the hunt for the “next Bending Spoons”, embedded insurance and payments can make scuffed SaaS and ecommerce shine again](https://rollupeurope.com/p/embeddedfintech): Chris Bayley wants you to know that 30% of Best Buy profits come from extended warranties. Why did Constellation just buy a busted restaurant POS? ALSO: September Summit ON SALE. 
- [Teamshares, a VC-backed HoldCo, has narrowly escaped a Greenlandic Norse-style wipeout. How - and what now?](https://rollupeurope.com/p/teamsharespart3): Teamshares has defied naysayers by cutting debt, levelling up the M&A game, and going public. Now, more VCs are piling into the HoldCo game. 
- [The Rollup of Tomorrow Vol.18: Piotr Smoleń wants to roll up Polish accountancies, €1M ARR at a time. Why is this a good idea?](https://rollupeurope.com/p/paycraft): From handling payroll for gig economy to building CEE’s dominant Back Office vertical agent - with a rollup in-between. BONUS: Stop tokenmaxxing - use Towards AI to ramp org productivity!
- [80 is the new 45! What the Working Capital Arms Race reveals about the shifting priorities of Sweden’s smartest HoldCos](https://rollupeurope.com/p/workingcap2026): In 20 years, Lagercrantz increased sales 6x+, cash flow 17x & share price 80x. The playbook? Shifting from distribution to product businesses - and constantly improving them. We show you exactly how they did it. 
- [Liquid Gold in them blue barrels! How Belgium's Quatra rolled up Europe’s Used Cooking Oil industry - while Private Equity got fried](https://rollupeurope.com/p/quatra): 70+ acquisitions, €300M revenue & the smartest play on "sustainable flying" - but for how long can Quatra remain family-owned? BONUS: We've teamed up with Christopher and Flo from Legacy Partners. Maybe you should too? 
- [7 years, 5 exits, 6.8x gross MOIC: is Alexander Preussner Germany’s top-performing Independent Sponsor?](https://rollupeurope.com/p/alexpreussner): At 30, Alex channelled his frustration with midcap PE into building a deal-by-deal powerhouse that he called NGC Nachfolgekapital. Here’s how he did it. 
- [Italy is calling - for real this time! Two days in Milan mapping Europe’s hottest (quite literally) succession market](https://rollupeurope.com/p/italy-is-calling-for-real-this-time-two-days-in-milan-mapping-europe-s-hottest-quite-literally-succe): Bakeries, chauffeur fleets, HVAC: a peek inside Fabio Nalucci’s rollup empire. A search funder’s 2.5-year toil culminates in a 4-way merger. Also: big thanks to Strada and Orrick!
- [1/10th SpaceX's multiple but 2x Constellation’s: is the Bending Spoons IPO good value?](https://rollupeurope.com/p/bending-part-3): Insights from the IPO prospectus. BONUS: AOL generates 50% of Bending’s EBITDA. What does it actually do?
- [From $6M to $1B market cap - and back down to $400M. Why have investors soured on Judges Scientific, a totemic British HoldCo?](https://rollupeurope.com/p/judges-primer): A storied acquirer of scientific instrument businesses sees cash flows plunge by half, blames external factors. Is there more to the story? Rollupeurope investigates. 
- [The Rollup of Tomorrow Vol.17: Strada's reinvention from midcap software PE to Europe's rollup champion. 2.5 years, 500 applicants, 10 live platforms](https://rollupeurope.com/p/the-rollup-of-tomorrow-strada): “We only partner with the people who’ve crossed the bridge”. Bart Wouters talks LV8, Strada’s EIR programme, and keeping its “graduation rate” above 80%.
- [Lotus Bakeries: 12 billion reasons investors love the “Oreo nemesis” that has returned 243x in 26 years](https://rollupeurope.com/p/lotus-bakeries-primer): A speculoos-flavoured, family-owned compounder dead-set on global cookie dominance. 
- [13x growth, fresh faces overlooked & US LPs circling: this is what Europe’s Independent Sponsor market looks like in 2026](https://rollupeurope.com/p/freedom-or-golden-cage): Highlights from Europe’s No1 Independent Sponsor gathering. 17 US LPs you should be pitching to right now. UK Indy Sponsor deal tear-down (HVAC!)
- [The Rollup of Tomorrow Vol.16: 50 deals per year & not slowing down. Ramsey Sahyoun on Evergreen’s M&A machine, capital allocation & AI-proof strategy](https://rollupeurope.com/p/the-rollup-of-tomorrow-vol-16-50-deals-per-year-not-slowing-down-ramsey-sahyoun-on-evergreen-s-m-a-m): “If the founder is looking to retire, we will find a successor. If the founder is looking to get to the next level, we can help with that too. We recruit someone into every business we acquire”.
- [Volati is an unloved HoldCo that happens to own the world’s best label printing rollup - and some meh assets. How come and what now?](https://rollupeurope.com/p/volati-is-an-unloved-holdco-that-owns-the-world-s-best-label-printing-rollup-some-meh-assets-why-and): 20%+ margins, 30%+ ROCE & just getting started. The story of Ettiketto, a cash flow beast hidden inside a shape-shifting Swedish HoldCo. PLUS: Rollup Bootcamp is back! Applications for the June ‘26 Cohort now open 🚨