After the first sprint, most owners want the same people to stay and make the plan happen. That's the partnership: strategic, acquisitions-led, sitting on your side of the table, and value we create together. Every plan ends in one of four routes.
Talk to us about a partnershipWhich one is yours comes out of the first sprint. Some businesses become the platform a group is built around; others are better placed as a strong part of one. Both are good outcomes, and we'll tell you honestly which we think fits your business.
Your company becomes the platform. We find complementary businesses, buy them or partner with them, integrate them, and compound the value: the fastest path to shareholder value we know.
The right targets are the ones that make the platform stronger: businesses in adjacent sectors, in your supply chain, lookalikes in other regions, or lookalikes in a fragmented market ready to be consolidated.
Value is profit × multiple. A £1M-profit company sells for perhaps 3–5x; a £5M-profit group with shared systems and a management team sells for 6–8x or more. Buying at 3–4x and being valued at 6–8x is the arbitrage. The rest is execution.
You'd rather be a strong part of something bigger than build it alone. We're building groups in specific sectors and looking for well-run businesses to join them.
Growth support and shared capability now, a share in a much bigger outcome later, and the option of a partial exit when it suits you. You keep control of the business you built.
You want to grow by acquisition without committing to a full group. We run the whole trail with you: finding the right targets, making the approach, structuring the deal so it works for both sides, and getting it through diligence to completion. Then we help you integrate it properly, so the profit you bought stays bought.
One good acquisition can add more profit in a year than five years of organic growth. Then we look at the next one.
Trade sale, private equity, group exit or direct listing, prepared from day one. Governance, reporting and a board built early, comparables tracked, the story written before the buyer asks for it.
A direct listing gives owners liquidity, a public currency for further acquisitions, and control. We plan for it where it fits.
Buy what you understand, where your network and reputation already work.
Buy what your customers already need and don't get from you.
Lots of small owners, few consolidators, real demand growth.
Retirement, fatigue and succession, not distress.
Each company keeps a general manager. You set strategy and do the next deal.
If you've already got a plan and a business that runs without you, let's talk about a partnership. If not, the 90-day sprint is the way in, and we'll say so.
“Your approach aligns perfectly with what we’re trying to achieve: building a properly run, scalable business that’s attractive to investors while still something we’re proud to keep running.”
“Gavin’s support has gone significantly beyond what we expected when he said he’d ‘hold our hand’ through this process, in a very positive way.”
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