Building businesses
that last.
A private, family-owned British industrial group. We invest in strong, independently run companies and give their leaders the freedom to grow.
A private, family-owned British industrial group. Thirteen businesses. One shared vision. Every company we acquire keeps its name, its leadership, and its identity.
We help feed, light,
build and defend the UK.
Agricultural packaging & timber solutions through HK Timbers
Crompton Lamps, Sycamore Lighting & Lightbulbs Direct
Stackright, Thurston Group & Newspace modular construction
ADM Pressings & Dent Steel supplying UK defence & industry
A different kind of
industrial group.
GCH Corporation Ltd is a privately owned British industrial group, founded in 2010. We acquire and grow established businesses across manufacturing, distribution, and specialist services — and we are sector agnostic by design. That natural balance across industries is one of our greatest strengths.
We are not a traditional fund. We don't trade businesses, strip them, or sell them on. We are a generational business — financially stable, debt-free, and built to last. Profit is the fuel for our future, reinvested back into the businesses we own.
“We don’t run the businesses for them. We back the people who do.”
Four principles.
One consistent approach.
Every decision we make — every acquisition, every investment, every conversation with an owner or a leader — is guided by the same four principles.
Long-Term Ownership
Generational, not transactional.
True Decentralisation
Empowering leaders to lead.
Capital Stability
Debt-free and built to last.
Industrial Stewardship
Protecting jobs and expertise.
One Group.
Thirteen Businesses… And Growing!
Steel Processing
Dent Steel Holdings
Steel Stockholding. A specialist steel stockholder and processor supplying high-quality steel to the construction, engineering and manufacturing industries.
Modular Buildings
Stackright Ltd
Modular Buildings. Design, manufacture and installation of portable and modular buildings for construction, industry and the public sector across the UK.
Lighting
Crompton Lamps
Heritage Lighting. One of Britain's most iconic lamp brands, manufacturing quality lighting products since 1878 and still going strong.
Precision Metal Pressings
ADM Pressings
Precision Engineering. High-quality metal pressings, fabrications and assemblies for the automotive and industrial sectors, produced with precision and care.
Window and Door Fabricator
Whiteline Manufacturing
Window and Door Fabricator. Premium PVCu and aluminium windows, doors and roof systems for retail showrooms across the South of England and beyond.
Trade Window & Door Supplier
Team Frames
Trade Supply. The South East's go-to trade supplier of PVCu and aluminium windows, doors and roof products, with 9 branches and lead times from just 5 days.
Lighting
Sycamore Lighting
Specialist LED Lighting. A specialist in high-performance LED lighting solutions for residential, commercial and hospitality environments across the UK.
Modular Buildings
Thurston Group
Modular Building Manufacturer. One of the UK's most established modular building manufacturers, delivering high-quality portable and permanent structures for over 50 years.
Timber & Agricultural
HK Timbers
Industrial Timber Manufacturing. A long-established manufacturer of timber packaging and pallets, supplying the food production, horticultural and industrial sectors.
Lighting
Lightbulbs Direct
Online Lighting Retail. One of the UK's most established online lighting retailers, offering thousands of products to trade and consumer customers nationwide.
Modular Buildings
Newspace
Container Solutions. Specialists in the sale, hire and conversion of shipping containers and portable cabins for construction, events and commercial use across the UK.
Automotive
Unitruck
Designs, engineers, manufactures, and distributes aftermarket commercial vehicle components.
Mezzanine & Storage
Storplan
Industrial Storage Solutions. Specialists in mezzanine floors, pallet racking and bespoke storage systems — helping businesses make the most of their space since 1999.
Your business.
Your strategy.
Your own P&L. Your own team. Your own strategy. Capital when you need it. Expertise when you want it. A peer group of MDs who have done the same thing. And a group that measures success in decades, not quarters. If you think like an owner, GCH is built for you.
Find out moreSelling is personal.
We start from there.
You have spent years — perhaps decades — building something that matters. When you sell to GCH, the name stays. The team stays. The culture that made it worth buying stays. We bring capital and a long-term commitment. We do not bring a restructuring plan.
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We don't buy to flip.
We buy to build.
When we founded GCH in 2010, the original seed was always the same: a long-term family business, financially stable, with no exit strategy, that reinvests in the businesses it owns. That vision has never changed — what has changed is our ability to execute it with greater clarity, greater scale, and greater confidence than ever before.
Sixteen years and twelve acquisitions later, not one of those businesses has lost its name. Not one has been sold on, stripped, or closed. Every company we have acquired is still trading, still investing, and still growing. That is not a policy. It is just how we think.
Decades of combined heritage.
One group. Thirteen businesses. Centuries of combined expertise.