SFG has extensive experience in the full scope of consumer communications content creation and delivery, including holdings in Reshet, Israel's leading television broadcasting, production and communications company, and Yes, the first satellite broadcast network in Israel.
SFG is also active in the lucrative mobile communications arena. Israel is one of the fastest-growing mobile communications markets in the world, with an exceptionally high level of early technology and services adoption, and cell phone usage. From Partner (NASDAQ: PTNR), the fastest-growing mobile provider in Israel, through Telit, representing Hyundai and Telit mobile infrastructure and hardware in Israel, SFG has made comprehensive inroads into the lucrative mobile telephony market.
SFG's unique investment mechanisms, specially designed with the communications market in mind, have paved the way for many young communications companies to meet today's market challenges head-on. As with all our portfolio companies, SFG prides itself on delivering the right combination of management experience, market finesse, and global door-opening opportunities to help communications companies grow smartly and soundly, maximizing return on investment and minimizing risk.
Partner
Partner Communications Company Ltd. is a leading Israeli mobile communications operator, providing GSM/GPRS-based mobile telephony and other wireless services under the OrangeT brand. Partner applies cutting edge technologies, enabling its customers to benefit from excellent voice quality, superb customer service, nation-wide and international coverage, and a range of services specifically designed to provide communication solutions for residential and business customers alike.
Reshet
Reshet is a leading television broadcasting, production and communications organization and a licensee of Channel 2 - Israel's leading broadcast network. Reshet's activities encompass the entire television production chain - from in-house development and production of television programs and concepts for broadcasting and distribution, through development, acquisitions and scheduling of programs, and including network television airtime sales.
Yes
Yes has changed the face of Israel's TV broadcasting arena by being the first to bring multi-channel satellite TV into the Israeli viewer's home. The company operates at the forefront of technology in order to supply a range of advanced digital services in the fields of entertainment and broadband communication, has taken over 25% of the market, and continues its rapid growth.
Maxi Media
Specializing in billboard advertising and street and bus signs, through franchising and broad format printing, Maxi Media is Israel's leading billboard advertising company, controlling a significant portion of the local market.
Dai Telecom - Telit
Dai Telecom supplies cellular phones to the leading three cellular telecommunications companies in Israel, representing Hyundai (CDMA and X1 systems) and Telit (GSM). Dai Telecom also supplies service and logistical support for phones made by Hyundai, Sony Ericsson, and Telit - including comprehensive technical support, phone localization, and technical training and materials.
Telit Italy, a Polar company, is a leading Italian manufacturer of GSM/GPRS
handsets and modules, with products sold throughout Italy and Europe.
The company recently went public on the London's AIM.
