Food Anchor Management GmbH starts with 35 properties and an investment volume of EUR 150 million
Peakside Capital Advisors AG (“Peakside”) and Stoke Park Capital GmbH (“Stoke Park”) combine their competencies and establish Food Anchor Management GmbH. The combined company focuses on the development and management of a specialized platform for local supply real estate (Food-Anchored Retail), initially in Germany. The platform starts at the time of its foundation with an existing portfolio of 35 properties with around 100,000 m² of commercial space at locations throughout Germany. A total of around 150 million euros has been invested so far. For 2026, the partners plan to double the investment amount.
Focus on resilient and fast-growing asset class Food Anchor Retail
Local supply properties are considered a stable and at the same time fast-growing component of the German real estate market. Peakside identifies Food Anchored Retail as one of the three strategic core themes on which the company intends to focus its activities in the area of its value-add funds in the coming years, in addition to residential and cross-asset class “special situations”. As a specialist investment and asset manager for retail real estate in Germany, Stoke Park brings in-depth market and operator knowledge as well as a strongly performance-oriented, pragmatic investment approach to the partnership.
Joint investment approach: value-oriented, active, entrepreneurial
Both companies share a common understanding of real estate investments: a value-oriented investment strategy combined with an active management approach along the entire investment cycle. As Chief Investment Officer, Thomas Dänzel will be responsible for the investment strategy and portfolio of Food Anchor Management GmbH. As one of the founders of x+bricks, a former leading platform for food-anchored real estate, he brings his expertise in transaction management.
“In our view, local supply properties offer a very attractive combination of resilient cash flows and active value creation potential. For us, this segment is one of the strategic core topics of the coming years, along with housing,” says Boris Schran, Managing Partner at Peakside. “The market is currently being viewed primarily from a stability point of view. We are convinced that there is significantly more value creation potential in this segment if it is actively managed. With Food Anchor Management GmbH, we are creating a specialized platform to further develop Food Anchored Retail in Germany in a targeted manner together with strong investors.”
“The focus is on the ‘buy – manage – sell’ strategy: purchase of properties with development potential, consistent asset and property management measures and a clear focus on value enhancement and performance. Compared to many more defensive market participants, we are taking a much more active approach,” says Christoph Unger, Managing Director of Stoke Park.
With the establishment of Food Anchor Management GmbH, Peakside and Stoke Park are creating a common basis to build a scalable platform with a target volume of EUR 300 million for 2026. To this end, new investment opportunities for the platform are to be developed in the coming months.
