 In 1982 it was acquired by International Leisure Group (ILG) and continued to grow and prosper.In 1991, ILG collapsed and was taken over as a management buy-out backed by venture capitalists County NatWest Ventures, Grosvenor Capital and Causeway Capital, in a transaction valued at £167,000.After being briefly rebranded as "The Club" due to regulatory rules precluding the use of the name for 3 years, it reverted to the original name in 1994.