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 is delighted to announce the expansion of their Deal Team with the appointments of Investment Executives, Matthew Hamilton and Jason Birt. Matthew, a graduate from Durham University with an undergraduate degree in Economics and a Masters in Finance from Durham University Business School, joins Rutland...
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...
Rutland Partners is delighted to announce that its Fund II portfolio company, Buy As You View ("BAYV"), completed a £30m financing on 15 August 2014 with Hayfin Capital Management. The proceeds will be used to repay £23m of Rutland's £34m investment in BAYV made in October...