{"id":508925,"date":"2018-04-30T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T09:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penrose.law\/?p=508925"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:59:12","slug":"greenfield-acquires-meride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penrose.law\/en\/greenfield-acquires-meride\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenfield acquires funeral company Meride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<p>Greenfield Capital Partners has acquired a majority interest in online funeral service provider Meride. The capital injection is aimed at helping this Dutch company to accelerate its growth and to expand its market share. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meride.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meride<\/a>&nbsp;was founded five years ago by entrepreneur Marc Dreuning. Since it was founded, Meride has generated&nbsp;30 percent&nbsp;annual growth and it is expected to generate a turnover of EUR 5 million this year. The company aims to grow in 3 to 5 years from providing funeral services for 1,000 to 10,000 funeral services&nbsp;on a yearly basis. The turnover is expected to increase by about ten times. Greenfields&rsquo; capital contribution is to partly buy-out Marc Dreuning and to invest in marketing, online services and new staff. Dreuning continues to be the manager director and he is now a minority shareholder. The Dutch private equity company&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfield.nl\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenfield Capital Partners<\/a> will generally invest an average of &euro;3 to &euro;5 million in its participations per year, up to a maximum of &euro;10 million. The investment company is well known for investments in among others Telfort and Wegener Direct Marketing. Penrose in Amsterdam (<a href=\"https:\/\/penrose.law\/en\/lukas-witsenburg\/\">Lukas Witsenburg<\/a>) has advised both Meride and its founder Marc Dreuning on this transaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenfield Capital Partners has acquired a majority interest in online funeral service provider Meride. The capital injection is aimed at helping this Dutch company to accelerate its growth and to expand its market share. Meride&nbsp;was founded five years ago by entrepreneur Marc Dreuning. Since it was founded, Meride has generated&nbsp;30 percent&nbsp;annual growth and it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"Greenfield Meride Expansion Fuels Rapid Growth","_seopress_titles_desc":"Greenfield Meride deal boosts Meride\u2019s expansion in online funeral services, accelerating growth and strengthening its market position.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"Greenfield Meride","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[650,33,41,746],"tags":[],"hf_cat_post":[],"class_list":["post-508925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cases-en","category-corporate-law","category-news","category-transactions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penrose.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penrose.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penrose.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penrose.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penrose.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/penrose.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penrose.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penrose.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penrose.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508925"},{"taxonomy":"hf_cat_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penrose.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hf_cat_post?post=508925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}