Just weeks after announcing the purchase of Cambridge Vending, Montagu Group has completed another major acquisition. Montagu has bought the trade and assets of three businesses from AIM listed Uvenco UK PLC; namely Uvenco vending, Snack-in-the-Box and Drinkmaster.
Montagu director, Paul Allen, said: “When we recently announced the acquisition of Cambridge Vending, we were already working on this deal as we see vending and “consumption on the go” as a key area of expansion for us. This purchase brings us another 12,000 points of sale, giving us a total of more than 25,000 across the group. It also broadens our geographical reach as the company has offices in London, Newport, Blackburn, Coventry and Liskeard and franchisees across the UK. We are delighted with the addition of almost 200 employees to our Group and a further £15m of turnover. Our added scale and geographic growth now places us as the largest British owned vending company.
“Snack-in-the-Box and Drinkmaster add new complementary areas for us. Snack-in-the-Box is a UK wide franchise operation, run through local franchisees which provide “honesty-boxes” and vending machines. Drinkmaster manufactures and supplies sealed “in-cup” drinks such as coffee, tea, hot chocolate and soups, the sort of thing you often see on aeroplanes. All of these businesses have shown a real flair for innovation and pushing technological boundaries and that’s something we see as essential to our continued growth in the vending market. We look forward to meeting all of our new customers and building on the existing relationships they already had.”
Fast-growing, specialist vending-solutions company, Montagu Group Limited, is owned by the Hutchinson family. The Group has completed a number of major acquisitions since its inception in 2017 and now turns over nearly £50 million per annum and employs nearly 600 people.