Investment Proposition/Focus

Our business

 

• A specialist division of Bibby Line Group set up to identify, acquire and support a new generation of businesses to further strengthen and diversify the group’s expanding portfolio
  
  
• Our team combines the expertise of mergers and acquisitions professionals with experienced senior executives from a wide range of business backgrounds
  
  
• Our parent is one of the UK’s largest and fastest-growing privately owned companies with turnover of £1bn and profit before tax of £32m in the year to 31 December 2008. It has over 200 years’ experience of operating in global markets, with interests in a range of sectors including business

 

 

Our proposition

 

• Our ownership structure and culture promotes a unique relationship-based approach to acquisitions, enabling management teams to deliver growth strategies and maximise earnings potential
  
  
• We can leverage our expertise into the businesses we acquire, identifying synergies and sharing best practice across the portfolio
  
  
• The management teams we support have access to a broad and deep range of proven business experience within the group through the senior executive teams of our trading divisions
  
  
• We incentivise management teams to deliver growth strategies through attractive earn-out structures
  
  
• Short internal communication lines enable us to make quick decisions

 

 

Our investment focus

 

• We seek to acquire established, entrepreneurial, profitable businesses which demonstrate scalability and long-term growth potential
  
  
• We back incumbent management teams who can demonstrate the ambition and ability to expand their business
  
  
• We normally seek to acquire 100 per cent of equity, using flexible and attractive deal and earn-out structures
  
  
• We normally target acquisitions domiciled in the UK (with or without overseas interests) with an enterprise value between £5m and £100m