We invest across the spectrum of the mid-market, looking for larger businesses with the opportunity to create operational and strategic transformations, as well as helping propel smaller, high-growth companies to the next level.
The support we offer our companies extends well beyond the capital we provide. TDR invests in a small number of portfolio companies, making returns for our investors by investing time, energy and expertise into successfully growing these businesses.
TDR adopts a fully integrated, one-team approach, utilising its in-house investment, operational and data science expertise to drive value creation.
We invest across the spectrum of the mid-market, looking for larger businesses with the opportunity to create operational and strategic transformations, as well as helping propel smaller, high-growth companies to the next level.
We look to invest in businesses that have strong foundations and which we believe will be resilient through different economic cycles.
We typically inject low levels of debt into our portfolio companies and are focused on appropriate debt structuring in order to maintain strong cash flow generation to fund top-line growth.
We are always on the lookout for opportunities to deploy additional capital across our portfolio to accelerate growth – this may be capital to fund transformational add-on acquisitions, new strategic growth priorities or major capital expenditure programmes.
We also support our companies defensively when the going gets tough: during the Covid pandemic we provided additional equity to support a number of our impacted companies
Our businesses are major employers and are recognised for being good employers.
Stonegate has launched an award-winning "bar to boardroom" employee training programme for its c.15,000 employees. Meanwhile, David Lloyd, with c.8,500 staff, has consistently been named in the Sunday Times’ Top 25 Best Companies to work for in the UK. LeasePlan was recognised by the FT’s Diversity Leaders Ranking of Europe’s most inclusive companies, coming top 5 in the banking and financial services sector and number 21 overall in Europe. During the pandemic, we set up hardship funds at David Lloyd and Stonegate, enabling more than 1,000 employees and their families to benefit.