The data depicts the volume of private equity investment in Europe as of 2016, broken down by industry. Private equity is the OTC provision of equity capital through private or institutional investments with the participation of companies in another company for a limited time in order to generate financial benefits. It can be seen that the biggest volume of private equity investments were in the consumer goods and services sector at that time, with total investments in this industry reaching a value of more than 14.27 billion euro.
