Portfolio
Templine Recruitment
October 2007
£4.3 million investment
£n/d deal
Birmingham-based recruitment company, Templine Recruitment Limited, provides temporary labour to customers in the distribution, warehousing and industrial sectors. The company also supplies ‘on site’ recruitment services to a number of major logistics and distribution companies. Templine Recruitment Limited also has branches in Leeds, Luton, Coventry and Leicester.
Neville Johnson
March 2008
£4.25 million investment
£12.5 million deal
Based in Manchester, Neville Johnson is a leading designer, manufacturer and installer of high quality bespoke fitted furniture for home studies, bedrooms, lounges and home cinemas. Targeting high net worth individuals, its recent success has been driven by a reputation for quality coupled with a high level of customer service and satisfaction.
JDP Rooflines
March 2008
£2.3 million investment
£5 million+ deal
JDP is a North East based roofline contractor and supplier, which has developed a strong presence as both a sole and sub-contractor in the social housing sector in the North East since its foundation in 1994 by father and son team Graham and Jamie Dent. JDP installs roofline products in housing refurbishment projects, and its supply division provides Swish-branded roofline products directly to house builders.
Pandora Books
April 2008
not disclosed
Pandora Books is a leading supplier of book collections to schools. Recognising the time pressures that teachers are under and the lack of time to spend comparing and choosing the most suitable books, Pandora offers book collections which cover a wide range of reading abilities and meet all the criteria of the National Curriculum and the National Literacy Strategy.
Sabotage
March 2009
£2.25 million investment
£3.6 million deal
Trading as Fly53, Worcester-based Sabotage Limited designs and sells premium branded street fashion for men and women. Founded in the mid-90s by Will Rigg, Sabotage has grown Fly53 from a limited edition T-shirt collection into one of the UK’s best-known independent fashion labels.
TSC Foods
July 2009
£5.65 million investment
£24 million deal
Scunthorpe-based TSC produces and supplies high quality chilled and frozen sauces, soups, entrées and dressings to the retail and foodservice markets. TSC is a key supplier of private label soups and sauces to major food retailers, and is the supplier of choice for soups and sauces to a number of high-profile restaurant and pub chains. In 2008, TSC entered the branded chilled soup market through its development of the Glorious! fresh soup range.
Dwell
August 2010
£5 million investment
Dwell creates and sells furnishings that combine aspirational design with affordable pricing, and has carved a niche targeting affluent young
professionals. Originally founded as a mail-order furniture business in 2003 by entrepreneur, Aamir Ahmad, the company has grown from a single site in Balham, London, into one of the UK’s most fashionable multi-channel furniture retailers.
Wells Plastics
February 2011
Staffordshire-based Wells Plastics Limited supplies additives to global plastic manufacturers and processors that are looking to modify the properties of a broad range of plastic and polymer products in order to provide a range of enhanced properties, such as UV resistance, flame retardancy and oxobiodegradability. The end products are then supplied to a variety of sectors, including consumer, automotive, construction and agriculture.
Wells growth over recent years has been driven largely by the growth in demand for its innovative oxobiodegradable product, Reverte™, which speeds up the natural degradation process of plastic to produce water, carbon dioxide and biomass. Widely acknowledged as the most advanced product of its type in the market, it can reduce the biodegrading time of plastics from centuries to years or even months.
Midland Industrial Glass
December 2011
MIG is a leading UK glass processor. It provides specialist B2B glass processing services across a range of niche sectors, focusing on service, quality and innovation. Established in 1936, Smethwick-based MIG is one of the largest independent, specialist glass processors in the UK, supplying a wide range of products, including toughened glass and mirror, to the retail, transport and street furniture markets, amongst others.