30 Jun 2025
Private investment firm Hyperion Equity Partners has marked its successful ongoing investment in Ranger Fire and Security, announcing the Ranger Group’s 10th acquisition since launching last year – a significant milestone in its rapid growth journey.
In the first half of 2025, and as part of Hyperion’s successful buy-and-build strategy, Ranger Fire and Security has added a further three high-performing businesses based across the UK and Ireland to its portfolio, furthering the Group’s mission to become the leading one-stop-shop for all fire and security (F&S) service needs.
There is increasing demand from clients in both the UK and Ireland for the services of F&S providers. However, while the sectors in both markets are highly skilled they are also highly fragmented, making it harder for businesses to scale and grow. Instead, many focus on providing a handful of services to a high standard, resulting in clients often needing to contract with multiple providers for their needs.
Hyperion identified an opportunity to overcome this challenge. Through launching Ranger, it is bringing together best-in-class F&S businesses across multiple regions and markets to offer the fullest range of services, as well as increasing collaboration and cross-selling opportunities between businesses in the Group.
In just over a year, Ranger has significantly expanded its footprint across the UK and Ireland, acquiring businesses while preserving the local leadership, expertise and brand recognition that they have built their reputation and customer trust on.
The 2025 additions to the Ranger Group include:
McGoff & Vickers Fire & Security Systems, a North-West based F&S business that specialises in providing fire protection services to customers across both the public and private sector including hospitals, councils and educational institutions – meeting their intruder, CCTV and fire safety needs.
IRN Security, a Inverness-based maintenance specialist in CCTV, alarm systems and integrated security solutions, and Ranger’s second acquisition in Scotland, with a customer reach that stretches from Aberdeen to Glasgow
Aqua Fire Prevention, a Dublin-based business and Ranger’s most recent acquisition, specialising fire extinguisher maintenance, servicing and training with 35 years’ experience and a significant customer base across Ireland. This marks Ranger’s second acquisition in Ireland, following last year’s acquisition of KSS Fire Suppression.
In recognition of this momentum, Hyperion Equity Partners was recently awarded the 2025 Actum Buy & Build Value Creation Award, recognising the success of its approach to investing in and growing the Ranger Group, alongside its positive impact on the F&S sector.
Paul Mahon, Partner, Hyperion Equity Partners, said: “These acquisitions underline the success of Hyperion’s strategy to grow and expand Ranger’s presence across the UK and Irish markets, while meeting the wide-ranging needs of both existing and new clients.”
"Our vision for Ranger has always been to create a platform that solves for the challenges facing the sector, bringing successful businesses together to collaborate and cross-sell, while fully leveraging the leadership and brand recognition of these businesses.”
“Growing the Ranger Group so rapidly in such a short space of time is a testament to the hard work of both the Hyperion and Ranger teams, and the strength of our partnership. We look forward to the rest of 2025, with plans for more acquisitions in the pipeline.”