Category: Private Equity, Pre-2008 Crash

  • The AA: Rescue or Wrong Turn? (BBC2)

    The AA: Rescue or Wrong Turn? (BBC2)

    The AA: Rescue or Wrong Turn?
    8 June 2007
    The Money Programme
    on BBC Two

    As private equity firms set their sights on bigger and bigger targets – including high-street favourites like Boots – the Money Programme looks at the City’s new whizz kids and one of the most controversial business practices of recent times. The film examines the buy-out of the Automobile Association (AA) and asks whether private equity investors are saving or savaging this national institution.

    Read an article about the programme here. The AA: Rescue or Wrong Turn? is an Old Street Films production for The Money Programme.

    Co-Producer: Adrian Gatton
    Producer/Director: Rob Lemkin
    Executive Producer: Clive Edwards