Allocations
Blue Wolf Capital Partners (Blue Wolf), a New York-based private equity firm, has acquired Colson Group (Colson), a leader in caster and wheel product solutions. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
BGF has invested in Northern Building Plastics to support its growth ambitions.
Northern Building Plastics is a specialist distributor of high-quality uPVC plastics and building products to trade customers. Led by co-founders, Judah Wilson and Richard Lindop, the business opened its first super depot in Leeds in 2010, followed by a second site successfully opened in Bolton in May 2018 on the back of strong growth and a proven model.
John Browett joins the business as non-executive chair and brings leadership experience from high profile CEO and board roles at Dixons, Dunelm Group, Tesco.com and Apple. Browett’s appointment
August Equity has realised its investment in Pet Cremation Services (PCS), the UK’s leading operator of pet crematoria through a sale to VetPartners, in a deal led by the M&A team at Deloitte in the Midlands.
Headquartered in Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, PCS operates a national network of high quality pet crematoria well as delivering bereavement training for veterinary professionals. August led a growth equity investment in 2015, backing CEO Glenn Tuck and team to grow the business and capitalise on the structural demand from pet owners for increasingly human style pet funerals.
During August’s ownership, PCS has completed eight acquisitions,
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has backed Wireless CCTV (WCCTV), a supplier of redeployable surveillance solutions, with a GBP30 million investment for a minority stake.
The partnership with LDC will accelerate WCCTV’s ambitious domestic and international expansion plans and support the launch of new products and services.
Headquartered in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, WCCTV is the UK’s leading Equipment as a Service provider of wireless surveillance products including redeployable CCTV, site security solutions and body worn cameras. Its products are utilised by the infrastructure, utilities, retail, transport and construction sectors, as well as local authorities and housing associations across the
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited specialist manufacturer ChargePoint Technology (ChargePoint) to US private equity firm Arcline Investment Management (Arcline).
The deal follows a four-year partnership that saw Liverpool-headquartered ChargePoint develop new products and pursue a successful international expansion strategy, accelerating global sales of its highly technical and innovative containment solutions. During its four-year partnership with LDC, ChargePoint increased revenues approximately 30 per cent.
ChargePoint manufactures and delivers enhanced sterile & contained process solutions to companies across Europe, Asia and North America. Its patented technology is used by the world’s top 50 global pharmaceutical manufacturers. It helps transfer
Gulf Capital has exited its investment in ECDC, an oil & gas drilling and production services provider in the Middle East and Africa.
The company is part of ADES Investments Holding Ltd. which is the major shareholder in ADES International, a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Gulf Capital partnered with the founding shareholders of ECDC and invested in the company in 2014 to finance organic and inorganic growth opportunities, including investments in the energy sector in Egypt. A 2017 follow-on investment further supported the company’s ambitious growth plans.
Dr Karim El Solh, CEO of Gulf
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has made a GBP2 million follow-on investment in Spektrix Limited (Spektrix).
Founded in 2007, Spektrix was an early pioneer in bringing cloud technology to the arts. It is now the UK industry’s leading SaaS solution, encompassing ticketing, marketing, fundraising, analytics and customer relationship management (CRM). It has been recognised as one of the UK’s fastest growing technology companies by the Sunday Times TechTrack 100 and FT Future 100 and since Foresight’s original investment in December 2018, Spektrix has continued to grow its customer base at a rate of 20%
Cairngorm Capital Partners’s (Cairngorm Capital) is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, Grant & Stone Group (Grant & Stone), has completed the acquisitions of RGB Building Supplies, Buildit Gloster and Total Plumbing Supplies, to create one of the largest independent builders’ merchant groups in southern England.
The new enlarged group will have 74 branches stretching from West London to Cornwall, over 1,000 employees and combined revenues approaching GBP250 million.
Grant & Stone’s stated objective has been to develop its builders’ merchant business through a combination of acquisitions, new site development and organic growth. With Cairngorm Capital’s support, it has
BCF Equity Partners has acquired Peterborough-based pump specialist, Hydromarque in a deal totalling GBP2.7 million.
Hydromarque is an exclusive UK distributor of Gorman-Rupp, Cornell and Wallwin pumps across a range of industries including water and food production.
Following acquisition, BCF is now looking to significantly grow the business and increase market share as the pump industry moves away from submersible products towards above ground pumps.
The acquisition was supported by Shawbrook Bank via a GBP1.4 million commercial loan.
Rob Newcombe, Managing Director of Hydromarque Ltd, says: “We are delighted to have gained the support of BCF Equity Partners as we
Atwater Capital (Atwater), an alternative investment manager that invests in the media and entertainment industry, has closed on a long-term debt facility with its portfolio company wiip, an independent studio.
The agreement, which brings Atwater to over USD100 million in invested capital since inception in 2017, extends its track record of providing equity or debt finance to support creative businesses in their development.
Proceeds from the facility will help to support the next phase in wiip’s substantial growth while at the same time bolstering the balance sheet of the studio, which was formed in 2018 by Paul Lee, who founded
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