West Sussex-headquartered cycling e-retailer The Rider Firm has put the wheels in motion to grow its business in the UK and US. The Rider Firm designs, engineers and e-retails premium bicycle components including carbon and alloy wheels, bikes and cycling accessories. Its wheel brand, Hunt, is its top seller. It also sells Privateer mountain bikes […]
Harmony Energy Income Trust plc, an externally managed company that invests in energy storage assets in Great Britain, has successfully agreed a debt facility of £60m with NatWest plc (the “Facility”) through a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The Facility comprises a five-year £60m facility with an initial margin of 300bps over SONIA, rising […]
Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co, has announced the sale of Greenhill Park Residential Care Home in Evesham, Worcestershire. Greenhill Park Residential Care Home is registered for 34 service users. Its primary aim is that “residents live in a clean, comfortable and safe environment, and are treated with respect and sensitivity to their individual […]
Lanarkshire’s first centre dedicated to bouldering and climbing has launched after the business owner received specialist support, advice, and signposting to funding worth £8,000 from Business Gateway. Officially launched in early 2021, Hang On Climbing Centre provides over 180 routes of bouldering, a type of rock climbing performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls. Leaving behind […]
Croft Communications is set for another strong year following impressive organic growth and a string of strategic acquisitions, most recently announcing the purchases of Active Voice and Data and Cloud9 to add to the other 9 completed over the past 2 years. The Hertfordshire based business, led by an award-winning team and accredited on the […]
Santander UK has supported the financial completion of creative communications agency Emperor’s move to employee ownership. Emperor established an employee ownership trust in 2020 and now Santander UK has provided it with a £7m funding package to support the financial completion. Grant Thornton UK LLP advised Emperor on the establishment of the employee ownership trust and […]
Aldermore has provided a £6.061m development finance loan to Whiteburn Viewforth Development Limited for phase one of a housing development in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The development is a joint venture between Whiteburn Group and the Housing Growth Partnership (HGP). The site is the grounds of the former Viewforth High School located in the east of […]
Bridging lender Kuflink, has announced that its P2P platform has just passed the £200m mark as new investment levels continue to accelerate. The lender which launched its P2P platform in 2016 as the principal funding source for its bridging and development finance, took nearly five years to reach its first £100m in investment in January […]
The UK’s largest woollen yarn spinner, Lawton Yarns Limited, has returned to private ownership following a £13.4m total facility from Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance. The facility funded the recent management buyout and will provide additional working capital and growth support to the business. Headquartered in Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, Lawton Yarns supplies woollen yarn to […]
Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co, has announced the sale of a site with the benefit of a full planning consent in the market town of Downham Market, Norfolk. Aspire LPP identified that the catchment had a significant undersupply of market standard care beds, and subsequently achieved planning consent within a six-month timeframe for the demolition […]
