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Rutland is delighted to announce three promotions within its Deal Team; Tristan Craddock and Rahul Satsangi have both been promoted to Investment Director and Michael Reynolds has been promoted to Investment Manager. Tristan joined Rutland in 2008 and was actively involved in the acquisitions of Maplin...

AFI has strengthened its presence in the East Midlands by acquiring Altitude Access, which has a turnover of £1.6m, a rental fleet of 180 powered access machines and a depot in Mansfield. The Altitude Access brand will be incorporated into the AFI brand. AFI Director, Steve...

— AFI Gains Investors in People Gold Status

Pizza Hut Restaurants UK (Pizza Hut) won the coveted Pizza Restaurant Chain Award at this year's PAPA Awards, held at the Lancaster Hotel in Hyde Park, London. Pizza Hut led the field beating every other pizza restaurant chain, as all UK chains were considered in...

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...

Whilst some have been frustrated by the lack of opportunities presented by the economic malaise of recent years, Rutland Partners has since busied itself with some of the most iconic deals in the UK. David Wardrop talks to Real Deals about putting money to work as...

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...

Maplin Electronics has announced that Darren Shapland will be appointed as non-executive chairman of the company from 1st September 2014. Mr Shapland takes over from John Lovering, who retired as chairman in June post the sale of Maplin to new owners Rutland Partners. John Cleland, CEO at...