Steadway Capital was founded to acquire and build established businesses in regulated industrial services in the UK.
We look to acquire owner-managed businesses with a strong track record and loyal customers, typically where the owner is planning for succession or thinking about the next stage of their own involvement.
We take a long-term view. We start by understanding how the business works today and why it has done well. Only then do we decide where it can develop further. We do not change things for the sake of it.
Management runs the business day to day. Steadway works alongside them on the bigger decisions: strategy, growth, capital allocation and complementary acquisitions. Where the team needs strengthening as the owner steps back, we bring in the right people.
We place real value on the knowledge and relationships the owner has built over many years. We want the team who know the business to stay and continue to play an important role in its future. We agree a handover with the owner that fits their circumstances and gives staff and customers continuity.
Steadway is building businesses to own for the long term, with no predetermined exit date. Our aim is to preserve what has made each business successful – its people, its customers and the standard of its work – and to keep developing it over time.
