Phoenix Venture Holdings

Phoenix Venture Holdings Ltd
Company typeHolding Company
IndustryAutomobiles
Founded2000 (2000)
FateDissolved in 2006
HeadquartersLongbridge, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Key people
John Towers
Peter Beale
Nick Stephenson
and John Edwards
SubsidiariesMG Rover
Powertrain Ltd

Phoenix Venture Holdings (PVH), also known as the Phoenix Consortium, was a British company formed by four businessmen (John Towers, Peter Beale, Nick Stephenson and John Edwards). Following BMW's break-up of the Rover Group a financially complex deal involving a £500 million "dowry payment" from BMW, resulted in PVH purchasing the Rover marque in May 2000 for the notional sum of £10, relaunching the car company as MG Rover. MG Rover and related companies placed themselves in administration on 8 April 2005.