Opportunties

Halal Industries Group plc is a private equity firm and is seeking to invest directly or indirectly into various industry sectors. The main focus will be to invest in SMEs is to invest into a well diversified portfolio of potentially high performing private equity investments that are both Sharia and Halal complaint. The company will also take a strategic or passive equity stakes in both listed and non listed companies that are Sharia complaint.

Private Equity strategy

Private equity is capital invested in companies in return for ownership interests in those companies. Generally these are private companies or those companies that have become private companies following a delisting from the relevant share market. The philosophy of private equity is to provide patient medium to long-term capital and management expertise to companies with strong growth prospects. HIG will seek to exist such investment in the medium to long term with a trade sale or listing on an international stock exchange as a future exit strategy.

Investment Strategy

There are several broad categories into which HIG investments may fall, including:

Mergers & Acquisitions

Management Buy-ins

Management Buy-outs

Reverse Mergers

Mezzanine Finance

Matched funding

Trade Finance - Sharia Complaint

Venture Capital

Seed Capital

Early Stage Capital

Distressed Securities

Equity investments - non listed companies on exchanges

Investment Criteria

The investment criteria will focus on businesses that are: Sharia compliant, in a predominantly Halal related industry, profitable or potentially profitable, in the existence of strong management and have an acceptable [investment grade]. In addition, HIG will (a) look to secure an equity participation of a minimum of 51%,always a controlling stake (b) have the right to board participation and management decisions at its discretion and (c) seek investments that have an exit route within a maximum of a 36 months period.

The following are examples of some of the projects that HIG will focus on:

Direct Investments

· Farming and related Industries

· Raw materials and food derivatives for Halal-related industries,

· Food Processing Industry

· Catering Industry – plant and machinery

· Lifestyle and consumer products specifically tailored to meet Islamic principals

· Logistic such as warehouse and transportation support devoid of non-Halal contamination

· Distribution & retailing

· Travel and Tourism

Indirect Investment in Related Industry

· Related industry to include technology, alternative energy programs

· Environmental projects to sustain the core supply chain

· Supply chain finance

· Branding, design and packaging

· Education and Training

· Finance for procurement and shipment against a specific order

What is halal?

Halal (halalal) is an Arabic term meaning “permissible”

In the English language, it most frequently refers to food that is permissible according to Islamic law.

In the Arabic language, however the true meaning is it refers to anything that is permissible under Islam.

In non-Arabic-speaking countries, the terms is most commonly used in the narrower context of just Muslim dietary laws, especially where meat and poultry are concerned, however it also refers to a number of other consumer and industry related products e.g pharmaceuticals, life sciences and fertilsers etc.

Permissible in Islam or Halal

Free of Alcohol and alcohol related products

Free of chemical and artificial addititives

Meat products culled under Islamic principles

Free of Meat additives from non Halal products

Free of Hormones

Free of antibiotics

Free of GMO

Free range and cage free animals

What is Sharia?

The basic principle of Islamic banking is the prohibition of Riba- (Usury - or interest):

"While a basic tenet of Islamic banking - the outlawing of riba, a term that encompasses not only the concept of ‘usury’, but also that of interest.

"The universal nature of these principles is immediately apparent even at a cursory glance of non-Muslim literature. Usury was prohibited in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.