Kinrock® is a group of small UK business-to-business service companies that share a deep commitment to serving their clients. Our sectors include corporate e-learning, compliance and business software services.
A long-term home for high-quality small UK companies.
Kinrock’s mission is to provide a long-term home for high-quality small UK business-to-business service companies the owners of which care what happens after they sell. Whenever we acquire a company, our first goal is to “do no harm,” minimising changes and providing continuity to employees, suppliers and clients. Each company maintains its identity and independence, while benefiting from central support services. Kinrock does not intend to ever sell the companies it acquires.
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 an online business-to-business service, such as corporate e-learning, business software or compliance
A high degree of contractually recurring revenue
Very 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-and-team-in-place EBIT between £200K and £1m
Manager-and-team-in-place EBIT margins comfortably over 20%
Why sell to Kinrock?
We specialise in online business-to-business services with contractual business models and so can understand your business
We provide high-quality shared support services spanning finance, HR, marketing, web development, software development and IT
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.