Age: 40
Position: CEO & Owner of Almost Free Warehouses
Five years after Zim acquired the shelf entity of S.R. Accord for ILS 30 m., he signed a transaction to sell up to 20% to Apax Israel for ILS 130 m. For the fund, managed by Zehavit Cohen, this is the first investment in a public company.
AMI Fund, led by Cohen, which purchased 10% of S.R. Accord 18 months ago, announced that it would exercise an option to acquire an additional 4.5% of the non-bank credit company’s shares for ILS 33 million * Adi Zim will drop to 59% holding only.
Zim and Bahari Real Estate’s joint group bought three lots in Tel Aviv, Rishon Lezion, and Lod for over ILS 220 million in recent months * The Group believes that after bettering the rights, the 5 dunam they acquired in Tel Aviv would be worth over half a billion shekels.
The bio-honey company signed an agreement for sponsored research with MIT to develop cultured honey production tech. The development would allow honey production that is not harmful to bees and is free of any antibiotics, pesticides, and toxins, and also demand-based production independent of seasons, bloom, and climate changes.
Zim is giving a loan to the Yaakobi Brothers project company, which might make him a partner of the company’s capital * Simultaneously, he is striding toward listing B-U Honey, a company that develops technologies for “cultured” honey production.
Net profit of ILS 17.2 million in Q3 * The company ended the first 9 months of the year with a 9% increase in financing revenues compared to the previous year, up to ILS 87.8 million.
The non-bank financing company recorded a 17.2% increase in Q1 revenues compared to the previous year; however, credit losses grew to ILS 4.09 million, accounting for 11.3% of the bottom line. Despite the crisis, the company increased its portfolio to a record ILS 718 million.
The area is located in the city’s Bellinson neighborhood, allowing construction of up to 22 semi-detached houses, each on a 700 sqm. lot
The shares of non-bank credit company S.R. Accord, controlled by Zim, soared by 196% in 2019, and by an additional 29% this month, reaching a market cap of ILS 889 million, aligning with the Nawi Brothers – whose credit portfolio is almost 4 times larger.
“I always loved commerce and I knew I will succeed, says Adi Zim. The bodega he started when he was 15 led to an exit event of ILS 350 million for the Almost Free Warehouses chain.
The growing check discounting company, S.R. Accord, reported that Zim, which holds 84.4% of its shares, reached understandings with Apax’s AMI fund in which the latter will acquire up to 20% of the copmany’s shares * The investment fund has yet to record an exit in its investments and has seen significant failure in the Schultz Catering Company.