LEADING UK TURNAROUND PRIVATE INVESTMENT COMPANY
REL capital brings energetic entrepreneurial team with a great track record to either work with management teams to drive performance on all our turnarounds and deliver short and long term plan followed up by quick results; on outright purchases or management team retaining minority share.
INVESTMENTS
REL Capital provides private investment, commercial expertise and hands-on support to transform and grow businesses.
Current Investments
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Westone--------------WestOne Companies purchased in April 2017.West One Hotel & Catering Consultancy is recognized as one of London’s leading boutique Catering & Hospitality agencies.With a great reputation for supplying quality permanent and temporary staff, as well as front of house staff to London’s leading restaurants, pub groups, and high end fine dining sites
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Agentis Construction--------------Agentis purchased in October 2017, a regional construction provider of temporary employees to housebuilders across East Anglia, Essex and Cambridgeshire. Agentis team has doubled in the first three months of ownership. Agentis was merged with Grapevine in 2019.
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REL Transport Group--------------REL Transport Group is a National Haulier With A Fast Growing Fleet Of 50 Artics. The combination of three different transport companies. A Highly Regarded And Reputable Wholesale Distributor Specialising In A Range Of Transport Services. The REL Transport Team are the preferred supplier on Amazon’s flagship LSP programme, providing 100% of the ’round-trip’ volume from Amazon’s EUK5 warehouse. They also work with a host of the UK’s largest hauliers including Wincanton, Gist, Maritime, Turners and Fowler Welch.
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Grapevine--------------Grapevine Recruitment purchased in June 2019 Providing Temporary Staff across Essex and Suffolk since 1995 on various PSLs for Industrial recruitment supplying 27 waste dépôts for Veolia amongst others. Agentis Construction was merged with Grapevine in 2019.
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Barnack Storage and Logistics--------------Barnack Storage and Logistics Ltd purchased in July 2019 to add to our transport portfolio with 180,000 sq ft of ambient and chilled warehousing serving both food and non food sectors located at our 7 acre site with modern fleet of MAN Trucks and trailers operating nationwide haulage. Established in 1986 within the confectionary sector, Barnack offer 6 main service provisions, ranging from Receipt through to Delivery.
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Boarhunt Group--------------Boarhunt Group Purchased in November 2019. Founded in 1964, Boarhunt Vehicle Services has grown into one of the leading vehicle service providers on the South Coast. With contracts in place with Portsmouth city council, Hampshire Police and most national insurers. With modern fleet of vehicle transporters and specialist heavy recovery fleet, Boarhunt operates a number of different areas including workshop, recovery, Police Pound, storage and Haulage.
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Beattie Transport--------------Beattie Transport Purchased In February 2020 To Add To REL Transport Group Portfolio with three warehousing sites with 2000 Pallet capacity. Beattie Brothers Operate 35 Trucks And Trailers Out Of Three Sites Based In Stevenage, Herts working with Palletforce for the SG and WA postcodes.
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Davian Coaches--------------Davian Coaches purchased in September 2020 is a Leading London based Coach Company, operating out of Long leasehold yard in Tottenham since 1971 with one coach to become one of Londons leading Coach companies. Today it boasts a 25-strong fleet of modern, quality vehicles and an impressive recent purpose built workshop for other operators repairs and vehicle maintenance. .Davian has built a strong client base ranging across both the public and private sectors; which includes Coca-Cola, Tesco, John Lewis, B&Q, Marks & Spencer, MSD, Middlesex University, Enfield Council, BMW and Kumon.
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FTS Transport--------------FTS Hatswell purchased in September 2020 l is a Leading North West based Transport + Warehousing Company based in Chester. The Company was established in 1984 and operates out of Deeside and new 110,000 sq ft Chester depot. Today it boasts a 60-strong fleet of modern trucks and trailers able to offer Logistics Solutions, tailor made to suit our Customer requirements, from delivery of single pallets throughout the UK and Europe via our pallet network.
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Stone Distribution Centre--------------Stone Frozen and Chilled Distribution centre purchased by REL Transport in September 2020 is a 110,000 sq. ft Distribution centre with capacity for 12,000 pallet, blast freezing, 60 trucks and trailers purchased from XPO Logistics, formerly operated as a Sainsburys North West Distribution Centre. The Stone purchase will dramatically increase REL’s North West logistics presence.
Past Investments
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Hotel Investments--------------Hotel Investments – REL have built, owned and operated 8 different hotels over the last 18 years. Many bought out of administration held for 2-3 years and sold, including an 8 million development with Travelodge hotels.
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RELCAP HOMES LTD--------------Leisure Property Development – Our Sister company RELCAP and RELCAP Homes Ltd have bought groups of pubs from most of the large Pub Cos Enterprise, Greene King, Punch, Wadworth, Marstons and Mitchells + Butler to name a few over the years, and are very active in commercial, student and residential development currently across London and the South Coast.
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Bar & Nightclubs--------------Bar + Nighclub Operations – REL have owned and operated a number of the larger late night venues across London and the South East, including No 1 Leicester Square in London, Other 1000 + capacity venues in Bournemouth, Southampton, Portsmouth. In 2014, we purchased four closed sites in Guildford, Watford and Crawley, and turned these into an 8 million turnover leading late night leisure business which has recently been sold.
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Other Investments--------------Other investments have included regional estate agents, medical and law businesses which have all been sold.
OUR TEAM
Working together with management teams we focus on driving performance and delivering results. We pride ourselves on being more than a turnaround investor, we see potential in complex situations and we work with management teams to share in the success.
CONNECT WITH US
UK Offices
2nd Floor,
17-18, Great Pulteney Street,
London W1F 9NE
REL House, Southgate Way,
Orton Southgate, Peterborough PE2 6YG
Tel. 0203 794 0300
info@relcapital.co.uk
LATEST NEWS
FTS Transport
FTS Hatswell purchased in September 2020 l is a Leading North West based Transport + Warehousing Company based in Chester. The Company was established in 1984 and operates out of Deeside and new 110,000 sq ft Chester depot. Today it boasts a 60-strong fleet of modern...