UV completions of flavour models and large theta_{13}

The ultraviolet completion of flavour models can strongly improve the predictivity of the respective effective models. We consider $A_4$ models, existing minimal UV completions and construct several next-to-minimal UV complete models. We compare the results of these possibilities to the experimental data including $\theta_{13}$. Through the predictive power of the UV completions, we are able to either rule out or constrain several minimal and next-to-minimal alternatives.