ABOUT US
Saville House Holdings Ltd. is the family company of Richard and Ailsa Harris, through which Richard Harris partnered with the Senft family and Tricor Pacific Capital Inc. in 2014 to create Founders Group of Food Companies Inc.
Starting in 2020, Saville has formed new partnerships to broaden the scope of its activities, as well as started making passive investments beyond its core focus on mature food and beverage companies. These new partnerships and passive investments sit alongside Saville's significant partnership with Tricor in Founders Group of Food Companies, which remains an important opportunity for value creation.
Richard Harris can be contacted at richard.harris@savillehouse.com
PARTNERSHIPS
In 2014, Founders Group of Food Companies was created to invest the capital of Saville House Holdings (Harris family) and Tricor Pacific Capital (Senft family). The origin of the Harris / Senft partnership came from an investment in Golden Boy Foods where Richard Harris served as President & CEO and Rod Senft served as Chairman. After ten years, Founders’ shareholders consider the Founders portfolio mature, and their focus is on growing and realizing value from existing companies and real estate holdings.
Starting in 2020, Saville added new partnerships and strategies to broaden the scope of its activities. After five years of working together, Saville is partnering with Falcon Investment Advisors in a new fund, Peregrine Bay Partners, targeting control investments in US food and beverage with EBITDA of $3-10M.
TRACK RECORD
Prior to forming Saville House Holdings in 2014, Richard Harris had a long career as an executive in public and private companies including The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Drikker, and Golden Boy Foods. Ailsa Harris enjoyed a successful career as a functional leader in buying, marketing, and category management at companies including M&M Mars, Frito-Lay, Coca-Cola and Safeway.
In 2014, Founders Group of Food Companies was created to invest the capital of Saville House Holdings (Harris family) and Tricor Pacific Capital (Senft family). The origin of their partnership came from an investment in private-equity-backed Golden Boy Foods where Richard Harris served as President & CEO and Rod Senft served as Chairman, and through which management and shareholders created $300M+ of equity value in five years, increasing EBITDA 12X.
Founders’ shareholders consider the Founders portfolio mature, and their focus is on growing and realizing value from existing companies and real estate holdings.
Starting in 2020, Saville added new partnerships and strategies to broaden the scope of its activities. After five years of working together, Saville is partnering with Falcon Investment Advisors in a new fund, Peregrine Bay Partners, targeting control investments in US food and beverage with EBITDA of $3-10M.
PORTFOLIO
The origin of Saville’s partnership with the Senft family and Tricor Pacific Capital came from an investment in private-equity-backed Golden Boy Foods where Richard Harris served as President & CEO and Rod Senft served as Chairman, and through which management and shareholders created $300M+ of equity value in five years, increasing EBITDA 12X.
Founders’ shareholders consider the Founders portfolio mature, and their focus is on growing and realizing value from existing companies and real estate holdings.
As part of its investment strategy outside Founders, Saville is actively seeking new investments in food / beverage operating businesses and related real estate, as well as making select passive investments beyond its core focus.
