KKR

KKR is a global private equity firm that entered China in 2005 and made agriculture one of its priority sectors from the outset, investing in Modern Dairy, COFCO Meat, and Sunner Development — upstream companies capable of scaled livestock farming . The firm has since grown into a PE giant with total assets under management reaching $504 billion as of mid-2023, anchored by milestones such as the $15 billion close of its Asia IV fund in 2021 — at the time the largest PE fund ever raised in Asia — and an $80 billion European Fund VI in early 2023 . In its 2023 mid-year report, KKR adopted "keep it simple" as its core investment theme, a phrase co-CEO Scott Nuttall used to describe the firm's preference for credit, collateralized cash flows, and tangible assets as hedges amid what KKR predicted would be a 5% earnings decline that year . The firm has also remained active in Chinese buyouts, acquiring NVC Lighting in 2019 when its controlling shareholder's listed platform needed capital injection , and in 2025 was among the finalists bidding for Starbucks China at an overall valuation of roughly $5 billion . Elsewhere's corpus does not cover KKR's founding date or headquarters location.