A-Companies

In 2006, James Adamson and Zafar Azimov decided to work together to build a fishing company in North West Russia. Jamess relentless pursuit of growth was equally matched with Zafars focus on long-term thinking and the company quickly grew to dominate the worlds King Crab market. With this success, they choose to leverage this partnerships passions... for investing in building companies. Ironically, in a world dominated by people who think long-term strategies are three to five years, we embarked on truly building companies for long term return and not selling them. Although, we have sold many companies, over the past 12 years, one of them being Arktikservis, our first venture, we still own 90% of our investments. We realized that we enjoyed building teams of people and unique property, plant, and equipment for unique business verticals. It didnt matter if it was the greatest king crab fleet ever assembled or a mental health facility in the desert of California. We enjoyed creating something that had great value and making it the best in its industry. We are not just passionate about our investments, we are passionate about our people. Our investment philosophy is based around the concept that scarcity of an object drives its value. We aim to build, develop, or grow business ventures or investments that have long-term value. We invest in our people, our culture, and our assets with the thought that they will be better in ten years in the future than they are on in one year. Our passion lies in identifying and then building a business venture to solve the problem. Our people are producing products and services in three continents twenty hours a day with this passion in mind. All of the members of our management team are operators. In the day and age of financial engineering, we believe that businesses should be run by the operators, not by financial engineers. Structuring transactions and negotiating deals is a big part of our world, but we choose to see these decisions from a highly operationally focused ...Read More