Artemis Group

Artemis Group

Artemis Group was established by Heiner Kamps after the landmark sale of Kamps AG. Kamps built the bakery chain from a single shop in 1982 into a publicly traded entity with over 2,800 outlets across Europe before the Barilla acquisition returned the business to private hands (per public record). The Munich family office invests the proceeds of that exit, with Kamps remaining involved as the controlling principal. Investment activity spans real estate, direct private equity stakes, and fund commitments. Real estate is the anchor: Artemis Group has acquired and developed a portfolio of commercial properties concentrated in German metropolitan areas including Munich, Berlin, and Düsseldorf. Private equity interests lean toward German Mittelstand companies in healthcare services and consumer sectors, often as minority co-investor alongside institutional partners. The group does not publicly disclose performance data or aggregate deployment figures. Kamps reacquired Kamps bakeries from Barilla in 2010, an unusual full-circle move that restored the operating company under the family office umbrella alongside the investment portfolio. The office maintains a lean structure in Munich with investment professionals managing direct holdings and external manager relationships. No fund vehicles open to outside capital are publicly known. Kamps operates a charitable foundation, the Heiner Kamps Stiftung, focused on education and youth development in Germany (per the foundation's public filings). The defining structural characteristic is the simultaneous ownership of a large operating business alongside a diversified investment portfolio under one roof. Most family offices of similar origin fully exit the founding enterprise; Artemis Group actively runs the original bakery chain while allocating the earlier exit proceeds to real estate and private investments — making it a hybrid operator-investor uncommon in German single-family offices.