2012 Buyout Track 100
Rank: 43 Jack Wills
Main shareholders: Inflexion Private Equity (27%), management (73%)
Named after Jack Williams, grandfather of co-founder and chief executive Peter, this company attributes its growth to an appetite for Britishness. Selling casual, preppy clothes to 18- to 21-year-olds through the Jack Wills brand, and reaching a more mature market through Aubin & Wills, the company now has 73 stores, concessions and outlets in affluent towns across the UK, two in Ireland and 11 on the northeast coast of America. In 2007 Inflexion bought a 27% stake in the London-based retailer for an undisclosed sum, and profits have grown 44% a year, from £7.8m in 2009 to £16.1m in 2011.
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Named after Jack Williams, grandfather of co-founder and chief executive Peter, this company attributes its growth to an appetite for Britishness. Selling casual, preppy clothes to 18- to 21-year-olds through the Jack Wills brand, and reaching a more mature market through Aubin & Wills, the company now has 73 stores, concessions and outlets in affluent towns across the UK, two in Ireland and 11 on the northeast coast of America. In 2007 Inflexion bought a 27% stake in the London-based retailer for an undisclosed sum, and profits have grown 44% a year, from £7.8m in 2009 to £16.1m in 2011.
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Company facts
Jack Wills
Fashion retailer
Company website
| Profit growth | 44.21% pa |
| 2011 profit | £16.1m |
| 2009 profit | £7.8m |
| 2011 sales | £92.2m |
| 2011 staff | 1,870 |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Location of HQ | Northwest London |
| * annualised figure | |
