Partners

BHPC has a broad range of customers in the NFP space encompassing several thousand charities, social housing groups and community and volunteer organisations.

Ahead of its acquisition by Duke Royalty, Capital Step successfully funded the MBO/MBI of BHPC as part of a shareholder transition plan, whereby the combined buy-in and buy-out management team will leverage their experience in order to drive the business forward through various growth initiatives.

The Group has supplied glass to prominent projects such as the Shard skyscraper, London’s Olympic Park, the British Museum, the Bowes Museum, Sage Gateshead, as well as Fenwicks and Selfridges department stores.

BGC, established in 1979, is based in the Midlands and serves trade customers, architects, interior designers, construction professionals and private home owners throughout the West Midlands and beyond. Its products and services range from the supply of plain glass from stock to sophisticated processing, and it holds extensive stocks of plain glass, safety glass, fire glass and horticultural glass, available for next day delivery using its own fleet of vehicles.

Tufwell, established in the 1980s, is based in West Sussex and, with its own dedicated glass tempering facility, is a specialist glass supplier of glazed partitioning, primarily servicing the London office market. By using state-of-the-art machinery, coupled with a highly skilled workforce, Tufwell is able to compete in the demanding market of London’s commercial building sector. Many of its products and services are used to supply the architectural glazing and interiors markets, with order to delivery completed in a short period of time.

PLG, established in 1977, is based in North East England and has a state of the art processing facility which caters to the most demanding commercial glass installations including oversized and/or curved glass. Its commercial glass services include internal and external glass doors, screens, shop fronts, glass balustrades, glass staircases, glass entrances and other bespoke architectural glass installations.

Fabrikat has a diverse and expanding customer base, supplying local authorities, contractors, developers, specifiers, wholesalers, and lighting OEMs. Increasingly it is pivoting into higher margin, bespoke sub-sectors.

Two members of the MBO Team have been at the company for more than 30 years and across the management team there is deep technical expertise in the steel fabrication market. The company is based in Sutton-in-Ashfield, UK and employs c.80 staff across its production and administrative functions.