We buy door and gate service businesses
Contact usWhat we're building
One group, built from excellent independents.
Almost every building in the country has doors, shutters, gates or barriers that must, by law, be kept working and inspected by someone competent.
Most of it is looked after by independent firms, each good at what it does, each built by someone who cared about doing it properly. We are bringing a handful of those firms together.
WHAT WE BUY
The businesses we are looking for.
We buy UK businesses built on service and maintenance: PPM, statutory inspection and reactive callouts, with remedial work and installation alongside. We like firms that treat installation as the start of a relationship rather than the end of a job.
Services
Industrial and automatic doors, roller shutters, high-speed doors, gates, barriers, perimeter access and loading bay equipment. In any sector.
Size
Minimum £1m turnover. The team, the reputation and the customer relationships matter as much as the numbers.
Engineers
Directly employed mobile engineers, not a subcontract model. The team is most of what we are buying.
Location
Our first acquisitions are along the M25 and M1 corridors. We will look further afield for the right business.
A different type of buyer
We do what we say we will do.
We are the buyer
There is no fund behind us who decides your outcome. You are dealing with the people who make the decision.
A straightforward process
We set clear expectations, move at pace, and complete on the terms presented. No price chipping.
We have sat in your seat
Our family built and sold an industrial services group through a strategy of successive acquisitions. We know what continuity actually means, and what the year after a sale feels like.
HOW WE BUY
How we structure a deal.
Every owner's situation is different, but our structure is consistent. It has three parts, and we are clear about them from the first conversation.
Cash on completion
Half or more is paid on day one, in cash, from our own funds. No financing condition and no lender approval.
Deferred consideration
A portion paid over the following three years on fixed terms agreed up front. Not an earn-out, and not tied to performance you no longer control.
A stake in what comes next
A portion can be reinvested as a stake in the group your business joins, so the people who built these businesses can share in what they become.
Get in touch
A confidential conversation.
If you are considering selling your business, we would welcome a confidential conversation.