Growing value

How we add value to your business

Few things in life are as exciting and potentially daunting as founding, developing and ultimately buying out your own business. 

We found this at RJD when we did it for ourselves – and now our focus is on helping our portfolio companies grow their value and deliver on their strategic goals. 

We back highly motivated managers who share this aim, and have the vision and energy they need to reach it.  Such people are the key assets of the businesses in which we invest, and we spend a great deal of time working with them, both before and after the deal.

Our experience clearly shows that following a shared and clearly understood plan that’s executed with rigour and flexibility is by far the most effective way to add value.

Beyond the deal we were lucky to have a PE house like RJD, they’re there for the long haul – not knee jerk, they stay to plan, and they have been a big support to the business.James BirdStone Group

For this reason, in each situation the RJD team that made the investment remains involved through every stage up to and including the ultimate exit, providing continuity and helping to nurture a strong relationship.  This is key to our partnership and maximises value for every shareholder – it encourages the open communication that helps all parties deal successfully with the ups and downs that are almost inevitable in every investment.

We typically expect to appoint an independent non-executive chairman to the board, to act as an impartial source of wisdom and advice.  We also seek to attend every board meeting, where our collective experience of creating equity value across a wide range of investments can be sensitively and sensibly deployed. 

Without interfering in day-to-day management matters, in this way we can help portfolio companies take a pragmatic view of the challenges and sometimes difficult decisions they face.