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Shearings Group

Shearings Group

Investment type Buyouts
Region UK
Status Current investment

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Shearings Group offers holidays throughout the UK and Europe, and enjoys unrivalled customer loyalty and an enviable reputation for quality and reliability.

Its product range comprises: 50 Shearings owned and operated resort hotels (which accommodate customers travelling by Shearings coaches or their own transport); a budget coach tour product to third party UK resort hotels; and a range of escorted tour products to a variety of European locations.

Shearings Group is a modern diversified holiday company employing over 3,000 staff throughout the group. It has a customer base of around three million people who are predominantly in the over-50 age group. Approximately one million passengers travel with the company each year.

The company has a large share in the growing market of holidays for over-50s and, with its three million strong customer database, is in an excellent position to extend its products into other areas that are specifically targeted at the expanding and increasingly affluent over-50s market.

Shearings Group may consider further acquisitions, particularly of hotels or small hotel portfolios, to extend or enhance the products it offers and to reach new geographic areas.

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