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Inside The Deal: Stuart McLachlan, CEO Anthesis
Palatine recently acquired a significant minority shareholding in fast growing, global sustainability specialist, Anthesis Group, a deal which underlined its long-held commitment and passion for impact investing and the broader ESG agenda. Here, Stuart McLachlan, co-founder and CEO of Anthesis, talks about the company’s growth journey, what’s next for the business, and the wider corporate…
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CTS – making mental health a priority
We spend one-third of our day working, so it has a profound effect on how we feel. Difficult or high-pressured situations can make us feel stressed, but a happy and supportive and workplace can help us manage our mental health. Construction Testing Solutions (CTS) has worked hard to ensure their team benefit from this kind…
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Palatine-backed Icelolly.com to combine with TravelSupermarket to create a standalone holiday comparison business
We have agreed to combine our portfolio company Icelolly Marketing Limited (Icelolly) with Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC’s TravelSupermarket (TSM), enabling stronger and broader travel comparison services across both brands. Leeds-based Icelolly.com is an online package holidays travel intermediary, specialising in price comparison and deals, and will complement TSM’s comparison services for holidays, flights, hotels, car hire…
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Buy and build in the recovery: new opportunities for midlands mid-market firms to scale through acquisition
Richard Thomas, Senior Investment Director and Head of Palatine’s Midlands office and Tom Hustler, Investment Manager. In any market, significant disruption creates a fertile breeding ground for consolidation. And few disruptions are as deep and far-reaching as the COVID-19 pandemic has been. Over the last 12 months, business resilience and ingenuity were placed under intense…
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Earth Day 2021: Sustainability is a financial imperative
To coincide with Earth Day 2021, we spoke to Brad Blundell, UK Managing Director of Palatine portfolio business Anthesis, about how Carbon Literacy training is arming the wider Palatine portfolio with new insights and tools to operate more sustainably. Palatine has become the first UK private equity house to put its entire portfolio through Carbon…
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Carbon Literacy Project – Spotlight on Anthesis Group
Anthesis Group – a leading global sustainability consultancy, and certified B Corp, have taken a unique approach to their Carbon Literacy training, to further cascade climate action. As one of our portfolio business, they have been using their network to increase awareness, and offer CL training to other organisations, in order to help them begin…
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Palatine portfolio becomes carbon literate
We have rolled out Carbon Literacy training across our portfolio of companies, underlining our 10-year leadership in integrating ESG into our portfolio to accelerate business growth sustainably. We are the first private equity house in the UK to put our full portfolio through the internationally-recognised training. In total 87 senior individuals from our team and…
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Lucion Services accelerates growth with acquisition of Delta-Simons
Lucion Services, the leading environmental services group backed by Palatine Private Equity, today announces the acquisition of multi-disciplinary environmental consultancy Delta-Simons Environmental Consultants Ltd. The transaction creates a market-leading group offering a wide range of environmental regulatory services across the UK, as well as becoming a significant force internationally via Delta-Simons’ existing footprint and its…
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EPI Group become the first Carbon Neutral energy consultancy
EPI Group, a leading international energy consultancy have been accredited as a ‘CarbonZero Company’ by CO2balance UK Ltd, a first within the energy consulting sector. ‘EPI’s sustainability journey started in 2018 when I took over as CEO,’ explains Andy Smart, ‘We started with a complete review of the company’s processes and set a business objective…
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