York Test

About

YorkTest is a leading health and wellness company with over 40 years of expertise in food intolerance and allergy testing in the home-to-laboratory test market. The company’s aim is to empower individuals to take control of their nutrition, health and wellbeing using a range of tests covering food intolerance, allergies and health.

It is a customer centric business with consumers at the heart of the business model, the post-test aftercare, validation of tests and commitment to customer satisfaction is a number one priority.
The business has a 92% customer satisfaction rate and their offer includes personalised nutritional aftercare with every full test to ensure consumers are not left in the dark on how to put results into action. These 30-minute phone consultations look at health and current diet to help consumers replace any trigger foods with other nutritious alternatives.

As part of the transaction Richard Millman joined the Board as Non-Executive Chair. Richard is the former Managing Director of a PC World group business, part of the Dixon’s Retail Group and the former CEO of Total Fitness, the PE backed gym chain.

The Market

The UK home health diagnostic market continues to grow at speed (12- 15% growth p.a.) with an increased awareness of health, nutrition and wellbeing amongst the population. The investment from NVM is to be used to capitalise on this growth in consumer demand for at home health testing and build continued scale around YorkTest’s in-house laboratory, the most advanced tests in the market