What we are looking for
The businesses we would love to buy
Everything we are looking for has one thing in common: it helps someone make a garden or a home more beautiful. Within that, here are the four areas we are actively looking in.
01
Garden design & landscaping
Design practices and landscape build firms with a portfolio to be proud of, a good name locally and a team that can carry the work forward.
02
Garden products & outdoor living
Makers, importers and retailers of the things that give a garden its character – the pieces people choose carefully and keep for years.
03
Home interiors & decor
Interior design studios and the product businesses behind them – anything that makes the inside of a home feel considered and well made.
04
Online retail & wholesale supply
Direct-to-consumer brands and wholesale suppliers in the same world. Chris has spent his career building product businesses of exactly this shape.
This is not a closed list. If your business sits alongside these – supplying them, serving the same customers, making something for the same rooms and gardens – please get in touch. Send us a note.
Where we are looking
Nine counties, one afternoon apart
- Wiltshire
- Somerset
- Gloucestershire
- Dorset
- Oxfordshire
- Devon
- Berkshire
- Monmouthshire
- Hampshire
Based in Wiltshire, we can be anywhere in this area within a couple of hours – and we will happily look further afield for the right business.
The fit
What matters more than the sector
We are looking for the right business with the right people in it. That matters far more to us than ticking a category.
£750k–£5m turnover
Profitable and established, with tidy books. Smaller businesses with a clear growth story are still worth a conversation.
South-West England
Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Devon, Cornwall and the surrounding counties. Further afield if the story is strong.
People who can carry on
A manager, a foreman, a designer, a small loyal team – someone who knows how the business runs day to day.
Quality and reputation
Work you are proud of, customers who come back, suppliers who speak well of you.
Complementary to the group
Something that could share customers, suppliers or know-how with the other businesses we buy.
A seller who cares
Owners who want their team looked after and their name treated well after they have gone.
Being honest
What we are probably not right for
Turnaround situations
We are not the right buyers for a loss-making business that needs rescuing. We are two people, not a restructuring firm.
Owner-only businesses
If everything lives in your head and there is no team at all, it can still work – but it is harder, and we will be upfront about that.
Very large deals
Much above £5m of turnover we are unlikely to be the right home. We would rather say so on day one.