Tavistock Group
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| Industry | Private Equity |
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| Founded | 1975 |
| Headquarters | Tavistock House Orange County, Florida |
| Key people | Joe Lewis,Christopher Anand, Shehan Dissanayake, Barry Goff, Mario Espinosa, Daniel Levy, Vivienne Lewis, Richard McGuire, Douglas McMahon, Rasesh Thakkar, Jefferson Voss, Tom Youth |
| Products | Investments |
| Website | www.tavistock.com |
Tavistock Group is an international private investment company founded by British businessperson Joe Lewis. The U.S. headquarters is located in Tavistock House in unincorporated Orange County, Florida.[1]
Across the globe, Tavistock Group provides creative capital structured for each investment opportunity and looks to deploy between $25 million to $1 billion behind established businesses which benefit from its capital, flexibility, management expertise and global network of resources.
With investments in 175 companies across 15 countries, Tavistock Group’s investment portfolio includes:
- Life sciences: Kalypsys, and Ambrx
- Sports teams: Tottenham Hotspur, and organises sporting events such as the Tavistock Cup and the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational
- Manufacturing and distribution: KangaROOS, and Gottex
- Oil, gas and energy: BayCorp, and Pampa Energia
- Financial services: Imperial Finance and Trading, LLC
- Restaurants: Freebirds World Burrito, Mitchells & Butlers plc, and Zed451
- Commercial properties: Tamar Capital, Bulgarian Property Development
- Private luxury residential properties: Isleworth Golf & Country Club, Lake Nona Golf & Country Club, Old Fort Bay
- Resort properties: Albany, New Providence, Harmony Cove Jamaica
And in addition, master-planned real estate developments such as Lake Nona, and the New Providence Development Company.
Private club communities include Isleworth Golf & Country Club and Lake Nona Golf & Country Club, both located in Orlando, Florida. Lake Nona forms a cornerstone holding to Tavistock Group's current innovative, 7,000-acre (28 km2) mixed-use development plan highlighted by a life sciences cluster becoming known as the Lake Nona Medical City. It includes the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and the Sanford Burnham Institute for Medical Research at Lake Nona. Construction is underway on Nemours Children’s Hospital, one of the nation's largest children's health systems, as well as the Orlando Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which will serve Central Florida’s 400,000 veterans. Both Lake Nona facilities are scheduled to open in 2012. In addition, the University of Florida announced its plans to build a Lake Nona academic and research center, which will house a Comprehensive Drug Development Center, the UF College of Pharmacy doctoral program and biomedical research laboratories.
Other luxury resort properties include Albany on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas. Tavistock Group, Tiger Woods and Ernie Els opened the luxury beach resort community in October 2010. Albany features a broad array of amenities, including an Els-designed 18-hole championship golf course and a 71-slip mega-yacht marina flanked by luxury residences designed by noted architects, including the late Charles Gwathmey, Robert A.M. Stern, Robert Siegel, Richard Sammons, Scott Merrill, Morris Adjmi and Geoffrey Mouen.[2]
Tavistock Group recently bought the St. Regis Atlanta, a 26-floor development with 151 guest rooms and suites and 53 residences located in Atlanta's Buckhead community.
The company has offices in Argentina, The Bahamas, China, European Union, Mexico, and the United States.
[edit] References
- ^ "Tavistock House." Tavistock Group. Retrieved on May 23, 2010.
- ^ "Albany Bahamas | a luxury resort community." Albany Bahamas. Retrieved on September 25, 2011.
[edit] External links
- Tavistock Group (company website)
- _r=1&scp=1&sq=breaking%20ground%20albany&st=cse New York Times article
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