Consumer

Investments

Our current and past investments in the consumer sector include:

Company Name	Nature of Business
Brand Partnership Holdings	Pasta, rice & hot instant snack manufacturer
Cooltrader	Discount frozen food retailer
Hotter Shoes	Shoe brand for the grey market
Perfect Pizza	Takeaway/home delivery fast food outlet
Speciality Retail Group (SRG)	Specialist menswear retailer
The Individual Restaurant Company	Restaurant chain
Town Centre Restaurants	Cafe and restaurant chain
West Cornwall Pasty Co	Hand-made Cornish Pasty retail outlet
Whitworths	Supplier of dried fruit, nuts, stuffings and snacking products

Hotter Shoes
Shoe brand for the grey market

Hotter is a leading UK brand of quality, comfortable footwear for the grey market. The company predominantly sells its products through mail order catalogues and its website. It also has a number of retail outlets across the UK.

http://www.hottershoes.com

West Cornwall Pasty Company (WCPCo)
Hand-made Cornish Pasty retail outlet

WCPCo is the market leading brand with 55 sites across the UK. Established in 1998, the company has won numerous awards for its fast growing business and the quality of its hand-made traditional Cornish pasties.

www.westcornwallpasty.co.uk

Town Centre Restaurants (TCR)
Cafe and restaurant chain

TCR is one of the UK's largest privately owned restaurant groups, serving over three million customers every year. The company has three main brand Cafe Giardino, Auberge and Azzurro.

Growth market.
Management team with a strong track record.
Solid platform from which to roll-out further sites.

www.towncentrerestaurants.co.uk

Speciality Retail Group (SRG)
Specialist menswear retailer

SRG is one of the UK’s best known specialist menswear retailers, providing high quality suits from some 80 stores. It successfully trades through a number of well known high street brand names including “Suits You”, “Racing Green”, “Young’s Hire” and “Chester Barrie”.

www.specialityretailgroup.co.uk

The Individual Restaurant Company
Restaurant chain

The Individual Restaurant Company operates a chain of premium casual dining restaurants, predominantly based in the North-West of England, with two concepts – “Piccolino” and “Bar&Grill”.

Highly experienced management team with a proven track record of creating shareholder value.

www.individualrestaurants.co.uk

Whitworths
Supplier of dried fruit, nuts, stuffings and snacking products

Whitworths is a leading supplier of dried ingredients to the UK wholesale, industrial baking and retail sectors.

High quality operational management team.

www.whitworths.co.uk

Cooltrader
Discount frozen food retailer

Cooltrader is a discount frozen food retailer primarily based in the North West of England.

Strong management team with the ability to create value in a niche market.

www.cooltrader.co.uk

Brand Partnership Holdings
Pasta, rice & hot instant snack manufacturer

Brand Partnership is a manufacturer of own-label (“retailer brand”) and branded dehydrated pasta and rice meals, hot instant snacks and soup to the major supermarkets. Brand is dominant in two of its retailer brand markets: savoury rice, pasta and sauce. Following the acquisition of Telford Foods it is now also dominant in retailer brand dried soup.

Opportunity to continue the historic growth pattern of the business both in existing and new markets.

http://www.brandpartnership.co.uk/

Perfect Pizza
Takeaway / home delivery fast food outlet

Perfect Pizza provides home delivery takeaway pizza through a national chain of outlets of which most are franchised. It is one of the leading pizza delivery companies with over 180 stores.

http://www.perfectpizza.co.uk/