What "specialist" actually meansGreenman Investments is the Greenman Group's alternative investment fund manager. We began in European grocery-anchored real estate, and that's still where most of our track record sits. A lot of managers call themselves specialists. We think the word only means something if...
Private market investment funds have been growing quickly in Europe. According to a 2026 study by Scope Fund Analysis, the European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) market reached at least €34 billion in assets under management by the end of 2025, a 55% increase on 2024....
Germany’s EV market posted its strongest half year to date. Battery-electric cars accounted for 24.8% of all new passenger car registrations in H1 2026, up from 18.4% last year. By the end of July, that meant roughly 446,000 new EVs on the road – a...
Potager Farm's sales this year have already come close to matching the whole of 2025's sales total – with several months still to go. Part of that is a single, concentrated example of what direct retail can look like at pace. Within eight weeks, Potager...
German grocery operators are amongst the largest and most successful in Europe, and once you walk into a store, it’s easy to see why. Their stores are built for more than just completing a weekly shop and it's a format that many Irish retailers are...
Greenman Energy's charging network has now exceeded €1.5 million in cumulative revenue, up from the c.€1.3 million milestone reported earlier this summer. The growth is coming from two directions: an EV hyper-charger footprint that is expanding across Greenman OPEN's portfolio, and a steadily growing base...
If you have been researching investment funds recently, you may have come across the term ELTIF. It stands for European Long-Term Investment Fund, and it is worth understanding what it means, because it determines what a fund can invest in, how it is regulated, and...
edyfi has begun piloting a new layer of analysis across the OPEN portfolio: using number-plate recognition sensors to understand not just how much energy a property uses, but how its physical space is actually being used. The first results, from one property currently being trialed,...
Three years of sales data now sit behind the retail partnerships of Potager Farm, the vertical farming venture backed by Greenman OPEN, and a pattern has emerged that repeats with striking consistency: demand dips every summer, right around the school holidays, before climbing back through...
Greenman Energy's (GME’s) rooftop solar network is now covering nearly half of on-site tenant electricity demand at the Greenman OPEN properties where it operates. Across 13 active plants – running for close to 1,000 operational days now – the network is generating an average yield...
It was wonderful to celebrate the opening of our new office with so many business partners, investors, colleagues and friends who have been part of and helped Greenman over the past few years. Having outgrown our last office, the new space in Berlin set over three floors, provides us with ample room to expand into as we continue to grow.
A special thank you to his excellency, Ambassador Nicholas O’Brien for speaking at the reception and to our friends at Lough Ree Distillery for bringing their Slingshot Irish Gin to the event for us to try.
As 2020 is the start of a new decade we wanted to look forward and consider what will/may influence retail and real estate funds, in particular Greenman OPEN (GMO), as we move towards 2030.
200 participants joined our panel of experts in an open and frank discussion on what technologies are impacting the retail and real estate markets.
Panellists
Christian Schimanski, Hamburg Commercial Bank, Germany
Dr Holger Wolf, White & Case LLP, Germany
Lynda Boylan, Manna.Aero, Ireland
Dr Angelus Bernreuther, Kaufland, Germany
Emily Bohill (Moderator), Bohill Partners, London
Insights from the Day
– The outlook for bricks and mortar German grocery stores looks stable with digitalisation focusing on addressing customer needs & overall retail experience.
– Drone deliveries could provide a low cost, high speed, environmentally friendly solution to last mile logistics, potentially working together with grocery stores in the future.
– Blockchain has the ability to revolutionise the way real estate sector operates from smart contracts to management and execution of property sales and leases.
– The continuation of a lower for longer interest rate environment will result in debt remaining cheaper for longer & yield gaps remaining significant. – Greenman OPEN targets to achieve €1bn AUM by the end of 2020.
Merry Christmas
from everyone in Greenman. Our offices will be closed from Wednesday, 24th December. And will reopen on
Friday, 2nd January.