OVERVIEW
Duce Capital Investment Management Partnership Limited is the member of Founder Group, which manages over RMB 3 billion of equity investment and industrial fund. Duce Capital equips with a professional investment team and the top managements have a profound insight and abundant capital market experience in various fields.
Through a systematic project development procedure, the company aims to help enterprises which are embodied with core competitiveness and rapid development potential in the domestic market. Duce provides a one-stop solution of capital operation, financial consultancy and industrial operation for the enterprises which would improve the company image and increase their turnover.
Founder Group is the general partner of Duce Capital. Its strategy map covers IT, medical and health care, real estate, finance and commodity and other industries.
Founder has 6 subsidiaries listed in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hongkong. One of the group companies, Founder Commodities, operates the trading of commodity spot and future goods, logistics, production and investment which gain revenue of 20 billion yuan in 2013. The group widely expands its business to the world through the development strategy of expand from resources and channels.
Founder Commodities establishes large agricultural planting area in Russia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia. With the aim to the scale expansion, the company is seeking great business opportunities and expanding the industrial chain from raw product to final product. As the group subsidiary, Duce Capital is the unique institute of equity investment in agricultural industry.
Founder Group was established in 1986 by Peking University, with 70% of its total shares held by Peking University and 30% by the Group's management. Founder Group has established good cooperative relations with many domestic well-known enterprises and governments. Thanks to its open and standardized capital platform, the Group has attracted international investment from Intel, Omron, Credit Suisse, Bank of East Asia, and Taiwan's Fubon Financial Holding.
With five industry groups and more than 35,000 employees distributed in major Chinese cities, Founder Group has performed outstandingly in expanding the overseas markets. In addition, the Group has owned 6 public companies listed in the stock exchanges of Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
In 2013, Founder Group's total income, total assets and net assets reached RMB68.0 billion, 96.0 billion, and 33.9 billion respectively.
As an enterprise invested and founded by Peking University, Founder Group has, since its inception, been adhering to the university's spirit – “Be a man of honesty and integrity and do things in a down-to-earth manner”, and conscientiously performing its social corporate responsibilities. While lending support to the improvement of China's soft power, the Group has developed a sense of “responsibility for innovation” in the areas of serving the country through industry, educational regurgitation-feeding, and repaying the society. At the same time, the Group has long focused on the four major areas, namely, national culture, national health, national education, and science and technology.