Growth Business presents a guide for scale-up businesses on how to access growth capital. The article includes contributions from a variety of businesses that have successfully raised funding from private equity – including Innovate Services, a fast-growing specialist catering company that provides healthy, nutritious school meals. The Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds invested in Innovate earlier […]
Read more2017 has been another busy year for Bridges: we closed our largest ever fund, launched pioneering new strategies in both the UK and the US, made a number of exciting new investments across the platform, and even changed our name: to Bridges Fund Management (to better reflect the breadth of our platform). Within the portfolio, […]
Read moreBridges Evergreen Holdings (“Evergreen”) is delighted to announce the launch of The Ethical Housing Company (“EHC”), an ambitious new property venture with a mission to create a portfolio of well-maintained, affordable homes for rent in Teesside. The Ethical Housing Company (ethicalhousing.co.uk) will acquire suitable 1-3-bedroom properties in the region, focusing initially on Redcar, Cleveland and […]
Read moreShaw is one of the UK’s leading providers of residential and nursing care for the elderly, helping to address the urgent under-supply of quality provision. It is one of the ten biggest employee-owned businesses in the UK, with over 3,500 employees. Bridges, which has a long track record in the care sector, is investing £10m […]
Read moreOur Spanish portfolio company Viva Gym and Portugal’s Fitness Hut, two of Europe’s leading low-cost gym groups, are joining forces Together they will constitute the largest low-cost gym group in Iberia, with almost 200,000 members and revenues of more than €50m The combined group will focus on driving better access to affordable health and fitness, […]
Read moreOur Spanish portfolio company Viva Gym has joined forces with Portugal’s Fitness Hut to create the largest low-cost gym group in Iberia, with almost 200,000 members and revenues of more than €50m. Real Deals covers the deal here.
Read moreBridges Fund Management (“Bridges”), the specialist sustainable and impact investor, and Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (“Cerberus”) today announced the sale of Qbic Hotel to an affiliate of Cerberus. Bridges first invested in Qbic in 2012, via its Sustainable Growth Fund III. This investment allowed for the transformation of a disused 56,000 sq. ft. office building […]
Read moreBridges recently announced the sale of Qbic Hotel to Cerberus Capital Management. Qbic is based around the innovative ‘Qbi’ concept. Developed in Amsterdam, the Qbi is a pre-fabricated bedroom made primarily from recycled materials that can be installed within an existing structure. This makes it possible to build a hotel much more quickly and efficiently […]
Read moreEach year, the Queen’s Birthday Honours List recognises the achievements of extraordinary people across the UK. We were very proud to learn that Bridges partner Antony Ross was among those honoured this year, receiving an OBE for his services to Social Enterprise and Investment. Read more on this here. See what the press said at: […]
Read moreHalo is an innovative, high-growth digital insurance business that helps consumers get better deals on their car hire insurance and GAP insurance It was launched in 2009 as a collaboration between Bridges Fund Management, Magenta Partners and Ernesto Suarez It has been acquired by Cover-More, a leading global insurance group Halo, the innovative ‘consumer champion’ […]
Read moreJust Ask is a facilities management business that works exclusively with Housing Associations, employing nearly 450 people and serving over 50,000 homes It is currently growing at about 40% per annum and has a market-leading reputation for outstanding customer service, social value and community engagement Bridges has taken a majority stake, backing the existing management […]
Read moreBridges Sustainable Growth Fund III, which is managed by specialist sustainable and impact investor Bridges Ventures (“Bridges”), has invested £13m to buy a majority stake in World of Books, a market-leading ‘circular economy’ technology business for used books. Founded by a group of book-loving entrepreneurs in 2002, World of Books has been a pioneer in […]
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