Late spring saw Aberdeen company Downhole Products gobbled up by fast-growing Varel International for an undisclosed sum. What perhaps differentiates this deal from so many others is that Varel’s president is a Scot who led a management buy-in of the US firm in 1998 when it was about the same size as the latest target.

Martin Anderson is in a hurry, or at least one could be forgiven for thinking he is. For sure, Triton Group’s CEO is a man with a mission – to take the famous Perry Slingsby brand and really make something of it.

For Triton, it boils down to acquiring highly specialist businesses that have been set up by smart people but which may nonetheless be struggling to make headway, perhaps because of solid management skills.