Pizza Hut
The Business Pizza Hut Restaurants is a leading UK casual dining chain, operating at acquisition 330 dine-in restaurants. The business was the UK master franchisee of Yum! Brands but was underinvested, with a dated estate, declining customer metrics and limited operational independence. The focus was on dine-in, with separation required from the Delivery business and […]
Walstead Group
The Business Walstead is the leading European commercial printing group with operations in the UK, Spain and Central and Eastern Europe. The Group employs around 2,500 staff at 12 production facilities across six countries. The business mainly operates web-offset presses, which produce promotional flyers and leaflets, catalogues, magazines and newspaper supplements. Investment thesis There was […]
Omar Group
The Business Omar is a leading designer and manufacturer of modular homes to the holiday park and retirement sectors, with Omar’s end markets driven by positive long term demographic trends and a lack of age-appropriate housing. Through the acquisitions of Regal and UK Sundecks, the Group also supplies premium holiday homes and decking, positioning the […]
Millbrook
The Business Leading European testing services provider offering real-world and laboratory-based test and validation services to the transport and energy sectors. Established in 1969. Millbrook is one of the most comprehensive testing facilities in Europe and one of only two such facilities in the UK. The business is strategically located at the heart of the […]
HCC
The Business HCC is a leading UK independent canned drinks co-packing service provider for a wide range of customers from multinational drinks brands to fast growing challenger brands. The company was established in 2009 to address the attractive opportunity identified for an independent canning operator servicing short to medium length runs to an underserved sector. […]
H&T Group
The Business Harvey & Thompson (H&T) is UK’s largest pawnbroker. At acquisition it operated 58 high street stores with a high concentration in the London area. The core business was a pledge book consisting of >95% of gold items. Unredeemed pledges were either scrapped, sold at auction or retailed through the stores. In addition, the […]
Gardman
The Business Gardman is the UK’s leading supplier of wild bird care products, tooling, lighting and gardening sundries. The business supplies products, sourced mainly from Asia to both the fragmented independent garden centre market and to national chains. The company offers over 3,700 mainly slow moving and difficult to source SKU’s providing by far the […]
CeDo
The Business CeDo is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of household disposables such as refuse sacks, bin liners and other speciality kitchen and household disposable products. It supplies the majority of Europe’s largest supermarkets and discounters with own-label products as well as some branded sales elsewhere. The business had a strong focus on the UK, […]
Buy As You View
The Business Buy As You View is a retail and consumer finance business selling a range of electrical and household goods on three-year hire purchase agreements. Customers have limited access to credit and make low regular weekly payments without the requirement of an upfront deposit or conventional credit check. Payment discipline is managed through a […]
Brandon Hire
The Business Brandon Hire is a leading tool and equipment hire business with headquarters in Bristol which operated a national network of over 140 depots. The business services a wide range of customers with c.30,000 local trade and smaller business accounts as well as national contracts with larger customers. Customers principally operate in a range […]