Partnership Stories

Case Study

Business Growth

Learn how private equity helped Peter Reid to grow his business – doubling revenue and headcount, and tripling EBITDA in four years through a focus on buy and build and ESG.

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iamproperty

Hear the team at property tech firm iamproperty discuss how their partnership and relationship with LDC has enabled transformational growth, including achieving its biggest year of growth to date.

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ELE Advanced Technologies

“We wanted to find a partner that understood our ambition”

IN DEPTH

Meet the Leader

David Gilbertson wanted to supercharge the growth of WCCTV, a market-leading supplier of redeployable surveillance solutions. That’s where private equity came in.

IN DEPTH

Meet the Leader

Jodie Howie made it her mission to shake up the milkshake market. Find out how private equity is helping her make Shaken Udder leaders in their field.

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LeMieux

“The most important parts of our relationship with LDC are having a shared trust and ambition for the future of the LeMieux business.”

From the beginning LDC made it clear to us that they wanted to back a management team and allow that team to run the business. They were true to their word.”

Tim Warrillow, Chief Executive
Fever-Tree

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MSQ Partners

With LDC’s support MSQ has tripled EBITDA and doubled revenue and headcount in four years. Watch CEO Pete Reid explain how he did it.

MEET THE LEADER

What impressed us about LDC was their understanding of our sector dynamics.”

David Stanley
CEO, ELE Advanced Technologies partnered with LDC to support the company’s growth

Podcast

CEO Richard Harden features in The Manufacturer Podcast discussing Stuart Turner’s remarkable growth and offers advice to other SME manufacturers seeking investment.

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Plimsoll Productions

“We wanted to build a TV production business of scale – that’s why LDC are such an important part of the Plimsoll story.” Hear from Grant and Jonathan at Plimsoll on their journey.

Jan Steele, Founder
Lucid Group

“The LDC team was authentic, approachable and very enthusiastic about our business. They offered not only financial investment, but strategic and tactical support.”

Alan Sampson, Founder
Solid Solutions

“We couldn’t have asked for a more supportive and engaging partner. The investment enabled us to accelerate growth plans.”

Richard Tredwin, CEO
SRL Traffic Systems

“Our partnership with LDC has not only helped us to bring on-board the best talent and grow our physical footprint, but it has turbocharged our ambition to become a market leader.”

ASK THE LEADER

“I’m not sure we could have got to where we did without LDC. We would have grown but not at the rate we did.”

Tracy Lewis
Former CEO, Eveden

In Depth

Meet the Leader

Gehan Talwatte is a serial entrepreneur whose obsession with data has helped him turn several businesses into runaway successes. When he joined a small division of an aviation insurance firm back in 2005, he knew nothing about aircraft – but understood the power of data to revolutionise a business model.

Webinar

As part our My Ambition series, in partnership with Management Today, three business leaders joined a panel discussion, chaired by Management Today’s editor in chief Robert Jeffery, to discuss their experience of growing a business from a mid-sized firm to a multinational business.

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HEAR FROM CEOS

Trusted with Ambition®

We put management teams at the centre of what we do, backing their ambition as they continue to lead their business. Their journeys in their words.

Four Decades of Ambitious Partnerships

We have backed more than 650 businesses with over £5.5bn of investment since 1981, supporting management teams across the UK to fulfil their growth ambitions and build great businesses. What better way to mark our 40th Anniversary than with the experiences of those business leaders we’ve backed over the decades.

This is a collection of 40 of those partnerships, from the perspective of the business leaders themselves.

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Growth Stories