All Seas Capital Invests in Nurture Landscapes Group to Accelerate Growth
Summary
LONDON, April 25, 2023--(BUSINESS WIRE)--All Seas Capital, a pan-European private capital fund that provides transformational capital solutions to leading founder- and entrepreneur-owned companies, announces a significant minority investment in Nurture Landscapes Group ("Nurture"), an award-winning UK ground maintenance and green services business.Founded in 2008 by Peter Fane, who comes from a long family line of horticulture specialists, Nurture has grown organically and inorganically to become a leading national service provider with a headcount of almost 2,000 staff directly employed. Holding two Royal Warrants, Nurture provides grounds maintenance services, landscape construction services, winter gritting, pest control and interior & exterior plant displays, providing one stop integrated services to a wide and diverse client base across the UK.Nurture has a reputation for strong customer relationships, with clients spanning a broad range of disciplines, from the management of green open spaces of Jubilee Gardens and leafy workplace environments such as Chiswick Business Park to university campus estates like University College London, through to the more industrial environments of Royal Mails 1,600 nationwide depots requiring grounds maintenance and winter gritting.Nurtures strong management and the All Seas Capital team have identified a clear growth plan focused on organic growth and an acceleration of the companys already accretive M&A strategy in the fragmented ground maintenance market to strengthen Nurtures expanding nationwide network and enrich its service and benefits to customers. All Seas is joining the Nurture journey at an interesting time management have already established a very strong platform, and there is plenty of growth and development to deliver together. Partnering with us serves as a catalyst for growth and development, while enabling business owners to retain control and preserve their culture, which is highly appealing. We identify businesses that already have a certain amount of scale but are in need of support and capital as the catalyst for real business growth.All Seas Capitals hybrid strategy, investing a combination of debt and equity, integrates ESG considerations throughout its investment process to help position its portfolio for long term, sustained growth.Prior to starting All Seas, Marc was a partner ("Member") of KKR & Co where he spent a decade and started the European dimension of the firms private credit activities with a special emphasis on hybrid transactions.