For sellers

You built it.
We’ll look after it.

Metistrad buys good, owner-run businesses and gives them a bigger, stronger future — without losing what made them work. No brokers. No listings. No tyre-kickers. Just a serious buyer and a straight conversation.

Before anything else

First, the important bit.

For most owners, the business is the biggest thing they own — and deciding what happens to it next deserves more than a sales process and a number on a spreadsheet. You’ve spent years building a name, a team, and a base of customers who trust you. Handing that over isn’t a transaction. It’s a handover. We treat it like one.

How we are different

We’re a buyer, not a broker.

Think property developer, not estate agent. A broker lists your business and hopes someone turns up. We’re the ones who turn up. No commission out of your pocket, no months in listing limbo, no parade of time-wasters picking over your accounts.

And when we buy a business, we buy it to keep and to grow — not to strip it for parts or flip it on. Your name stays. Your team stays. Your customers are looked after. We believe in evolution, not revolution: in the early months, very little changes at all.

Why we do this

Good businesses are stronger together.

Running a good business has rarely been harder. Brexit, a pandemic, an energy crisis, costs climbing in every direction — the hits keep coming, and they land harder when you’re taking them alone.

At the same time, a generation of owners who’ve built something good are starting to think about what comes next, often without an obvious successor in place.

We think the answer to both is the same one. When good businesses — similar enough to belong together — are brought into a single group, they get stronger. They share expertise, resources and commercial weight. They’re better protected from the pressures that wear smaller operators down. And they keep their own identity, their own customers and their own reputation — they simply stop standing alone.

The whole ends up worth more than the sum of its parts. That’s not clever financial theory. It’s common sense.

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What we look for

We back the businesses industry can’t do without.

We back good businesses that supply something essential — the companies other businesses quietly depend on. If yours is well run, well regarded, and the kind of operation industry can’t do without, we’d like to hear from you.

We’re especially active in heating and ventilation (HVAC), managed IT services, home improvement products, facilities management, and B2B supply more broadly — merchants, manufacturers, and the suppliers that keep industry moving.

  • £200k–£5m EBITDA
  • UK based
  • B2B
  • Recurring or repeat revenue
  • A strong team who want to stay
  • An owner ready to step back — or to grow first

Not every box has to be ticked. This is the shape of what fits, not a checklist.

The process

What it’s like to talk to us.

  1. 01

    A first conversation

    Confidential, no advisers in the room, no obligation. Just a straight chat about your business and where you’re at.

  2. 02

    We get to know it properly

    The numbers matter, but so do the people and what actually makes the place tick. We take the time.

  3. 03

    An honest, early steer

    If there’s a fit, you’ll hear a clear view quickly. If there isn’t, we’ll tell you why — no stringing along.

  4. 04

    Diligence, done with you

    Structured so there are no surprises at the end. We know what we’re looking for and we won’t waste your time.

  5. 05

    A careful handover

    Paced around you, and built to protect your name, your team and your standards.

Afterwards

And afterwards?

For you

A proper new beginning

The time and freedom to finally do the things you always said you would: read the books, cook the food, open the wine, see the places. What you built carries on in safe hands.

For the business

It gets stronger

Inside a bigger group, with more resources and sharper support behind it, but still recognisably itself — run by people who respect what it already does well.

Ready to talk?

Let’s have a conversation.

No pitch, no pressure, no obligation — and nothing leaves the room. Whether you’re ready to move now or just want to understand your options, the best time to start the conversation is before you need to.