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Clearwater advises NMC Group on its sale to GRITIT

Transaction

NMC Group Ltd sold to GRITIT

Sell-side

Undisclosed

Role

Adviser to NMC Group on its sale to GRITIT

Sector

Business Services
Industrial & Chemicals

Region

United Kingdom

Clearwater has advised NMC Group Ltd (NMC), a surfacing, engineering and external environment maintenance business, on its sale to winter maintenance provider, GRITIT, a portfolio company of Total Capital Partners (Total Capital).

NMC’s service lines includes carpark surfacing, drainage, civil engineering, surveying, line marking and specialist coatings. Its high-profile customers are spread across numerous sectors including, retail, industrial, commercial, healthcare and education.

The business provides nationwide service coverage, operating from three regional depots in Doncaster, Stevenage and Edinburgh, complementing GRITIT’s existing regional presence. Both companies operate highly flexible, agile and asset light operating models. The complementary customer bases present a compelling opportunity for cross-selling across the rapidly expanding group.

GRITIT, is a winter services compliance and grounds maintenance company delivering winter gritting, snow clearance, grounds maintenance and civil engineering solutions to commercial properties across the UK. Headquartered in Leatherhead, Surrey, and with locations throughout the UK, GRITIT services around 7,500 sites across the UK. Its client base includes some of the UK’s leading property, facilities management, retail and infrastructure companies.

With this transaction, the combined business will have the opportunity to strengthen and extend its current service offering across its national territories to support its growth trajectory.

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The team at Clearwater worked diligently, providing support and advice throughout the process to ensure a successful outcome for all stakeholders. In GRITIT, Clearwater identified an ideal partner for NMC, demonstrating their deep knowledge of the market, which has led to a successful completion that has met all the key objectives we set out to achieve at the outset.

Patrick McCracken, CEO, NMC Group Ltd
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The acquisition of NMC is a fantastic opportunity and a significant milestone in our clearly focussed strategy which is: to create a group offering clients end-to-end, integrated and technology-enabled solutions to their external infrastructure compliance and maintenance needs. The NMC team, ably led by Haroon Rashid, is excellent – highly professional, ambitious and energised. GRITIT is excited to be working with them to further drive the growth of the business and we look forward to welcoming our new colleagues.

Jason Petsch, CEO of GRITIT

It has been a pleasure helping Patrick, Haroon and the NMC team find the right partner for the next phase of growth. Both businesses are well established within their sector and we look forward to seeing further development under this new partnership.

Richard Goldsack, Partner, Clearwater

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