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Business Finance Case Studies Examples 2008
BUSINESS TYPE:LABOUR SUPPLY COMPANY
LOCATION:EAST MIDLANDS
NEW CAPITAL:3000000
We were approached via our website by a Derby based company who supply labour to the rail industry. Their turnover was £10 million plus but they had encountered difficulty with their Invoice Discount supplier (a major bank), who were no longer willing to cover the ID ledger (some £1.5m), due to credit re-insurance problems with the rail industry client.
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BUSINESS TYPE:PROPERTY DEVELOPER
LOCATION:NORTH WEST
NEW CAPITAL:410000
Our client is a property developer is based in the North West, who over 5 years has successfully developed 89 properties with a gross value of £10.7 million. A recent development encountered significant technical difficulties which caused material time and cost overruns.
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BUSINESS TYPE:EDUCATIONAL MARKETING AND PUBLISHING
LOCATION:LONDON
TOTAL NEW INVESTMENT:£150,000
As a result of an introduction through a financial consultancy known to us, we met with the MD of this company at the beginning of 2007. Beer & Young Ltd were engaged by them to seek urgent investment in order to provide working capital for the company, which is in the educational marketing and publishing business, it having been starved of resources for 3 years due to changes in the market.
We fairly quickly were able to produce an investor from a similar field who offered to merge the marketing side of our client with theirs, but were not interested in the publishing business, which led to us being engaged to dispose of this side of the business to facilitate the marketing merger and provide much needed funds...
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BUSINESS TYPE:FOOD SAFETY AND WEIGHT CHECKING TECHNOLOGY
LOCATION:NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
INVESTMENT ON COMPLETION:£20,000
Every food processing line must, by law, have a system for detecting ‘alien’ presences in the finished packages. Our client, who has been in the industry for over 20 years, spotted an opportunity to provide replacement detector units at far lower prices than the OEM’s.
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BUSINESS TYPE:LEISURE CLUB
LOCATION:MIDLANDS
RESTRUCTURING:CVA SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
The directors of this leisure club engaged us as they were very concerned by the major cash flow pressure affecting their business. They had invested heavily in the company and initiated a robust new business plan to develop the club. However, they inherited significant historic liabilities that had built up prior to their involvement and this was putting pressure on cash resources. We reviewed the various options with them...
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BUSINESS TYPE:GLASS CONVERTORS
LOCATION:MERSEYSIDE
RESTRUCTURING:SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
We were engaged by this client in the autumn of 2007 with cash flow problems following a complete restructuring of the business earlier in the year. We were able to introduce the client to 3 potential investors. Although, in principle, terms were discussed with one of these, the directors, with our support, felt that the proposals would not be in their interest to pursue. So...
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BUSINESS TYPE:PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN
LOCATION:DONCASTER
RESTRUCTURING:SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
Our clients are specialists in the design and manufacture of bespoke timber framed buildings for the home, business and leisure markets. The company was urgently seeking further investment in order to re-position the company as a niche provider of bespoke premium holiday lodge accommodation to the holiday park and hotels (“resorts”) sector of the leisure market.
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BUSINESS TYPE:MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY
LOCATION:CENTRAL LONDON
REFINANCING:750000
This consultancy business had experienced a period of rapid growth. However, it suffered from a significant bad debt and was also ‘overtrading’, which combined caused significant cash flow pressure.
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