Hg Acquires Focus Group from Bowmark Capital

Focus Group Acquires Chalkline

May 1, 2026

IT Services

Focus Group has acquired Hertfordshire-based Chalkline, a UK technology provider delivering IT managed services to SME customers, particularly around London. The deal is intended to accelerate and expand Focus Group’s IT managed services offering by combining Chalkline’s Microsoft-first expertise and automated delivery model (built on HaloPSA) with Focus Group’s national reach.

Bowmark Reinvests in Focus Group as Hg Joins as Investor

October 14, 2024

IT Services

Bowmark Capital has reinvested in Focus Group alongside new investor Hg to fund the next stage of the company's growth. Focus Group, founded in 2003, provides digital workplace and managed IT solutions to approximately 30,000 SME customers, with revenues in excess of £250 million and over 900 staff; the investment will support further product, service and geographic expansion across the UK.

Focus Group (Bowmark-backed) Acquires &Partners, Boxx Communications and RPM Communications

January 16, 2024

IT Services

Bowmark-backed Focus Group completed three add-on acquisitions—&Partners, Boxx Communications and RPM Communications—during the last six months to broaden its cloud, cybersecurity and communications capabilities and expand its UK footprint. The deals strengthen Focus Group’s specialist healthcare communications capability (RPM) and enhance cloud and Microsoft/cybersecurity services (&Partners), while extending regional connectivity and unified-communications coverage (Boxx).

Focus Group (Bowmark-backed) Makes Strategic Investment in Zest4

January 26, 2023

Telecommunications

Bowmark-backed Focus Group has made a strategic investment in Zest4, a UK channel-focused unified communications wholesale provider. The investment is intended to accelerate Focus Group's regional expansion, strengthen its channel offering and create new growth opportunities while allowing Zest4 to scale alongside Focus Group's existing direct business.

Health Management Associates Acquires The Focus Group

October 4, 2022

Healthcare Services

Health Management Associates (HMA) has merged with The Focus Group; The Focus Group will continue to operate as The Focus Group, an HMA Company, with founders David Kulick and Alex Rich remaining as managing directors. Terms were not disclosed. The Focus Group, founded in 2014 and based in New Orleans, provides market intelligence, strategy, business transformation, and go-to-market services for healthcare clients; HMA is a national healthcare policy and consulting firm founded in 1985.

Bowmark Capital Invests in Focus Group

March 9, 2020

IT Services

Bowmark Capital has acquired a significant minority stake in Focus Group, a UK provider of communications and IT managed services, and is providing more than £150 million of additional funding to accelerate Focus Group’s acquisition-led growth strategy. Focus Group delivers hosted voice, cloud applications, mobile, connectivity and IT services to over 15,000 businesses, with revenues above £80 million and roughly 300 employees.