Business Finance Case Studies 2009
| BUSINESS TYPE: | INNOVATIVE PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CONTRACTOR IN SPECIALISED MARKET |
| LOCATION: | NORTHERN HOME COUNTIES |
| INVESTMENT ON COMPLETION: |
£200,000 |
Our client provides any maintenance or refurbishment services for care homes, in particular for those for troubled children. Contracts are in place with a number of companies delivering provisions for the public sector. Whilst the profits were good the business has always been under-capitalised, and was being constrained in its growth by a severe shortage of cash.
Read More...| BUSINESS TYPE: | MANUFACTURER OF EXTRUDED PLASTIC PRODUCTS |
| LOCATION: | BASINGSTOKE |
| INVESTMENT ON COMPLETION: |
£220,000 |
Our client is a plastic extrusion moulding business founded in the 1950s. Under the second generation of family management, turnover had dropped to £2,000,000. Despite an Invoice Financing facility of £200,000 and the Managing Director having injected more than £600,000, the business faced acute problems
Read More...| BUSINESS TYPE: | MARKETING COMPANY |
| LOCATION: | LONDON |
| BUSINESS SALE WITH INVESTMENT: |
£750,000 |
Our client had been funded by shareholders since 2003 to develop its niche sector and had achieved a market dominating position by 2008 having invested a total of £9 million. It was projecting profitability in 2009, however one shareholder was no longer in a position to continue injecting capital and the remaining shareholder could not fund the business alone.
Read More...| BUSINESS TYPE: | TARGETED ADVERTISING IN SURGERIES AND HOSPITALS |
| LOCATION: | WILTSHIRE |
| NEW CAPITAL: |
£500,000 |
Our client is a very specialist media advertising company. Their aim being to locate large flat TV screens into Hospital and General Practitioner?s waiting rooms, all of which are centrally controlled content-wise from our clients HQ
Read More...| BUSINESS TYPE: | HIGH QUALITY EQUESTRIAN AND TWEED CLOTHING |
| LOCATION: | YORK |
| NEW CAPITAL: |
£300,000 |
Our client had worked for 20 years sourcing clothing when he decided to develop his own brands. The business designs and supplies high quality equestrian and country clothing to 250 retail outlets across the UK.
Read More...| BUSINESS TYPE: | GARDEN CENTRE AND NURSERY |
| LOCATION: | SURREY |
| RESTRUCTURING: |
CVA SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED |
In 2006 our clients acquired a run-down garden nursery with the intention of converting it into a fully fledged garden centre offering the public plants and shrubs from the Nursery plus a wide range of other products. This required substantial improvements to the site including construction of a shop and display areas as well as provision of mains services.
Read More...| BUSINESS TYPE: | PHARMACEUTICAL AUDIT SERVICES COMPANY |
| LOCATION: | KENT |
| BUSINESS SALE WITH INVESTMENT: |
£300,000 |
The principal director and shareholder of Pharma Audits approached us through our website late last year. The business had been equity funded by venture capitalists but they had just declined a further tranche of funding. Cash was running out quickly and without an urgent solution, the business would close.
Read More...| BUSINESS TYPE: | SPECIALIST CONSTRUCTION AND BUSINESS MAINTENANCE |
| LOCATION: | SURREY |
| RESTRUCTURING: |
CVA SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED |
Specialist Construction Ltd provides main contractor building services specialising in renovation, refurbishment and new build. Despite being historically profitable, serious issues had arisen resulting in weakened cash flow and financial pressure.
Read More...| BUSINESS TYPE: | BOUTIQUE HOTEL AND FINE DINING RESTAURANT |
| LOCATION: | YORKSHIRE |
| RESTRUCTURING: |
CVA SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED |
The directors of this hotel complex engaged us as they were very concerned by the major cash flow pressure affecting their business, which was caused by an extended period of illness (by the owners), which was caused by two serious aggravated burglaries, this absence led to a drop in management control and standards.
Read More...| BUSINESS TYPE: | WEBSITE DESIGN COMPANY |
| LOCATION: | YORKSHIRE |
| RESTRUCTURING: |
£40,000 |
The owners of WSD have been involved in web site design and associated services for many years. They had a previous business, which had failed for reasons mainly beyond their control. As a result their current business was set up with insufficient working capital from day one.
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