Taylors Transport - Chiltern Capital

The Business

Taylors Transport Group (“Taylors”) is a long-established transport and logistics provider serving the UK market, with a strong reputation as a high-quality local service provider. Based in Nottingham, and founded in 1974, Taylors specialises in the provision of haulage, warehousing, and international distribution services, with longstanding customer relationships across each.

The Deal

Chiltern’s investment allowed majority shareholder and MD, Alan Taylor, to retire, and to put in place a highly experienced management team of Liam McElroy (CEO) and John Pattullo (Non-Executive Chairman) to accelerate ambitious organic and acquisition-led growth plans to take Taylors on the next stage of its journey.

The Plan

Our vision is to create a leading logistics group, with a truly national footprint and best-in class customer service. This group will achieve this by growing its footprint through strategic M&A, investing in and professionalising its operations, and growing its commercial team.

The Team

David Butler

Partner

Jon Rawlings

Portfolio Director

Andrew Reid

Investment Manager

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David Butler

David was previously an Associate Director at Downing LLP where he focused on early-stage growth capital investing across a range of sectors.

Prior to Downing, David was a Manager in the Corporate Finance team at PwC in London having spent three years within the PwC Assurance practice, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.

At Chiltern, David leads transactions across multiple sectors, with particular experience in industrial products and services.

Since joining Chiltern, David has been involved in the acquisition and subsequent sale of Doby Verrolec, add-ons of Plasmech and Amerplast to Hanmere to form the Trueman Group, add-on of TTG to Gradwell, and the acquisitions of Inciner8, Emtez and Strata Products.

Outside of work, David enjoys spending time with his young family, supporting his old rugby club, and is a keen golfer.

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Jon Rawlings

Jon joined was previously an Investment Director at a mid-market private equity fund where he focused on supporting portfolio companies in delivering their growth strategies.

Since joining Chiltern, Jon has been involved in supporting Rapid Repair Network in building out its value creation plan as well as providing portfolio support to a number of Chiltern’s investments.

Outside of work, Jon enjoys spending time with his family as well as keeping fit, cycling and watching a wide variety of sports.

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Andrew Reid

Andrew focuses on new investments, primarily in the Industrials and Business Services sectors, as well as supporting a number of our portfolio companies with value creation, M&A, and refinancings.

Previously he was a Senior Manager at HMT in the Transaction Services team, where he managed financial due diligence assignments for private equity firms in the lower mid-market. Andrew started his career at EY, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.

Away from the office, Andrew enjoys all things sporting and is a keen golfer and long-suffering Scottish rugby fan. Outside of sport, Andrew likes getting out into countryside.