Rutland Partners is pleased to announce that on 5 June 2017 it completed an investment in Aston Barclay. Aston Barclay is the UK’s leading independent car auction group, currently operating from four sites in the UK. Headquartered in Chelmsford, the business provides vehicle remarketing services to...
Rutland Partners is pleased to announce that on 18 April 2017 it completed an investment in Omar Group (Omar). Omar is the UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of park homes and luxury lodges and sets the industry standard for quality, design and innovation. Omar is differentiated...
Rutland Partners is pleased to announce that on 1 September 2016 it agreed and completed the sale of Millbrook Group to Spectris PLC for £122 million. The disposal from Rutland Fund II realises for investors a return of over 6x its investment. Millbrook was acquired from...
Rutland Partners announces it has invested £33.0m into UK-based Walstead Group which, in turn, has helped facilitate the completion of Walstead’s acquisition of Let’s Print Holding AG (“LEYKAM Let’s Print”). With 2015 revenues of EUR €230 million and 1,600 employees, Walstead is a leading commercial printing...
Rutland Partners announces that it has agreed to make a £33.0 million investment into UK based Walstead Group to help facilitate its acquisition of Let's Print Holding AG ("LEYKAM Let's Print). The overall transaction has an enterprise value of EUR €175 million. Walstead, with revenues of...
Rutland Partners is pleased to announce Millbrook's acquisition of Test World, a world leading winter vehicle and tyre testing business based in Ivalo, Northern Finland. The acquisition of Test World is a significant step by Millbrook to increase its capabilities and expand its relationships internationally. It...
Rutland Partners is pleased to announce that on 23 June 2015 it completed the acquisition of Gardman Group ("Gardman") in an all equity transaction. Based in Peterborough, Gardman is the leading supplier of wild bird care products, tooling, lighting and gardening sundries to the garden sector....
AFI-Uplift has recently acquired Hampshire Plant & Access (HPA). This deal is the fifth bolt-on acquisition since Rutland first invested in the AFI Group in May 2013, when it successfully completed the simultaneous merger of three companies; AFI-Uplift and Hi-Reach in the UK and Access...
Rutland Partners is pleased to announce that, on 15 January 2015, it held a final close for its latest fund, Rutland Fund III, with total commitments of £263 million. The investors in Fund III come from the UK, continental Europe and North America and include pension...
Rutland Partners, the UK private equity partnership, is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed the disposal of the CeDo group of companies ("CeDo) to Straco. CeDo is one of Europe's leading suppliers of household disposables, manufacturing both own-label and proprietary products such as refuse...