INVESTMENTS

LOCATION ONE

Location One Ltd is the leading ‘on-set’ asset rental and solutions provider to UK’s film, TV and commercial market. It serves the structurally-growing and world-renowned UK media industry that is benefiting from digital transformation and the emergence of new content-producers like Netflix, Amazon and Apple.

The founders had profitably grown the business to £5m revenue but wanted help take it to the next stage. I helped professionalise the financials and successfully managed a process of bringing-in new funds and a CEO experienced in running a £40m revenue business in the broader film facilities rental sector.

Whilst not directly sitting in the consumer segment, Location One benefits from the dramatically shifting consumption trends and the deal leveraged my prior involvement in PE-backed deals to buy Pinewood and Shepperton studios. Further, in morphing from ‘sell-side’ to trusted adviser and key enabler of the transaction, I was invited to take a meaningful minority equity stake in the business and become a non-exec director.

As a management team, we see significant scope to grow the business organically and via complementary acquisitions, with an unrelenting focus on improving and broadening the existing proposition whilst adding solutions to facilitate the location managers’ job and improving the on-set experience for actors, crew and the production team.