RammSanderson has announced a strategic investment partnership with Phenna Group to help it achieve its next phase of growth.
Since establishing in 2014 directors Oliver Ramm, Nick Sanderson and Anthony Mellor have grown the business to have over 50 staff and become a market leader in Ecology, Arboriculture and Flood Risk Assessments. Its client base is a range of public and private sector clients, including national infrastructure and large-scale housing and commercial developments.
Headquartered in Nottingham, Phenna Group’s aim is to invest in and partner with selected niche, independent Testing, Inspection, Certification and Compliance (TICC), and Environment, Social & Governance (ESG) companies that serve a variety of sectors, ensuring customers’ peace of mind by delivering first class assurance & consultancy services.
This acquisition augments RammSanderson’s market-leading Built Environment and Infrastructure platforms and adds geographic and complementary services to its extensive service offering, whilst strengthening and adding greater organisational capacity to its wide range of environmental and consultancy services.
Oliver, Nick and Anthony are excited to see the next growth phase of the business be realised with its new partner. “We’ve come a long way since establishing and are incredibly proud of and thankful for our team and reputation amongst our clients and peers. We have an exciting business plan for the next 5 years and have selected Phenna Group to partner with in order to support the three of us to spearhead this plan.”
Paul Barry, CEO of Phenna Group, stated: “Since my first meeting with Oliver, Nick and Anthony, I’ve been very impressed with their ambitions for their business and I’m really excited the RammSanderson team will be joining Phenna Group. They are a very experienced group, and their range of services will be highly complementary to those currently offered from our Infrastructure Division. I’m really looking forward to working with Oliver, Nick, Anthony and the wider team.”
Oliver, Anthony and Nick commented: “We are delighted to be joining Phenna Group and selected them as our partner due to their unique approach whereby our autonomy and identity are retained, whilst being a vehicle for our continued growth.
“We have been talking to Paul and the Phenna team for some time and whilst this has been a big decision for us, we are very confident we have selected a great partner to support us in the next stages of our growth and development. They have been easy to deal with throughout the process, always acting with integrity and transparency.
“Their operating model and culture will be a great fit for us and we are very excited about them supporting our growth journey. Our decision to partner with Phenna Group provides the Company and all of our team with exciting new opportunities for growth and development, whilst the company realises its full potential yet retains its identity, ethos and spirit.”
Phenna Group were advised by Johnston Carmichael and Avonhurst. RammSanderson were advised by Smith Partnership and Cedar and Co.
