Kinrock® is a group of digital professional education and compliance software companies. We are the largest independent provider of digital continuous professional development (CPD) solutions to the UK financial sector, including to the financial advice and insurance industries. Our companies share a focus on providing high-quality e-learning content, software solutions and client support.

We help companies empower their people to thrive.

Kinrock’s mission is to help companies empower their people to thrive. We aim to grow both organically and via acquisition, so far having acquired five digital CPD, e-learning and compliance software companies. Whenever we acquire a company, our first goal is to “do no harm,” minimising changes and providing continuity to employees, suppliers and clients. We seek to be the right acquiror for owners that care about what happens after they sell.

 Our COMPANIES

Redmill Advance is the leading provider of regulatory exam training and continued professional development (CPD) services for the UK financial advice and wealth management industry.

Visit: redmilladvance.com

Zing365 is the leading independent provider of continuous professional development (CPD), e-learning and instructor-led training solutions to the UK’s insurance sector.

Visit: zing365.co.uk

Microw produces world-class bite-sized e-learning videos that delight, empowering companies to make their clients or employees more productive and safe.

Visit: microw.com

Expert Pensions is the leading provider of regulatory training services to the UK’s pension advice industry.

Visit: expertpensions.com

Red IT is a leading provider of software solutions that help companies ensure financial and accounting compliance.

Visit: red-it.co.uk

Acquisition Criteria

Kinrock seeks to buy businesses with the following characteristics:

  • Provision of digital CPD, e-learning or compliance services

  • A high degree of contractually recurring or highly repeat revenue

  • Low customer churn

  • Low or manageable revenue concentration by client

  • Comfortably stable or growing end markets

  • Based in the UK or Ireland

  • Either existing manager wants to stay on (whether or not the owner) or happy to stay on until replacement found

  • Owner is happy to sell completely

  • Annual manager-in-place EBIT between £200K and £1m

  • Manager-in-place EBIT margins comfortably over 20%

Why sell to Kinrock?

  • We specialise in online learning & development and compliance software and can thus understand your business and provide relevant know-how on product development, digital marketing, operations, sales and employee recruitment & retention

  • We invest permanent capital as a UK limited company (not a fund) and would thus not aim to ever sell your company, allowing you to be confident that your clients and employees will be treated the way you treat them

  • You can continue to be involved or transition away

The name Kinrock comes from the combination of two words: 


Kin

Meaning family, reflects our highly collegial and considerate approach towards the owners, management and employees of the businesses we acquire, as well as towards the businesses’ clients whose success it is our ultimate mission to support. We view all these individuals as part of the Kinrock family.

 
ROCK

Symbolising stability, perseverance and strength. We aim to protect the legacies of the companies we acquire and set them up for further success as they enter their next chapter as part of the Kinrock family.