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Beer & Partners Completions
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| March - £150,000 Simon Heywood |
Statement Pending | |
NEW ANTIBIOTICS PLATFORM - EFFECTIVE AGAINST SUPERBUGS
| March - £270,000 Patrick Angier |
Statement Pending | |
| March - £125,000 Patrick Angier |
20 of our investors have invested a total of £815,000 into a rapidly growing utility company targeting the niche tenanted property sector. The investors provided funds as a mix of EIS qualifying equity and convertible in amounts from £5,000 to £100,000 per investor. | |
| March - £100,000 Tony Maynard |
After investing £1m as new capital, the investor introduced by Beer & Partners then agreed to buy out an existing shareholder for a further £100,000, bringing his investment in this company to £1.1m since November 2008. The company was then sold to a trade buyer, enabling the investor to double his investment held for an average of 12 months. | |
| February - £105,000 Dwight Makins |
First half of completion with second half in new tax year. This company is establishing a web-based database of tax-exempt waste sites for waste producers, who would not normally be aware of them and can thereby save £48 per ton of delivered waste. | |
| February - £100,000 Martin Atkinson |
Our client required a 12 month loan and offered security over a musical instrument valued at £300,000. We arranged a £100,000 loan from one of our investors secured against the instrument. | |
| February - £200,000 Angus Milne |
‘Quest for the Crown Jewels’ is an extension to Ripley’s ‘Believe It or Not!’. Because of the unique nature of this Piccadilly Circus tourist attraction, footfall and therefore revenues were always likely to be immediate and strong. A single investor was quick to grasp the opportunity; by investing £200,000, this enabled the fit-out to go ahead. | |
| January - £45,000 Patrick Angier |
Statement Pending | |
| March - £75,000 Simon Hunt & Mandy Hutchison |
Additional £75,000:- For a minimum subscription of £25,000, investors have access to a portfolio of early stage companies of high potential, chosen and managed by a team led by Simon Hunt, an experienced and professional private investor with proven track record who has invested his own funds in the scheme. The first closing of the scheme took place in March 2009 and the first two investments were made within the 2008/9 tax year. Subsequent closings are arranged to reflect the timing and amount of further subscriptions to suit investors. There is no shortage of high potential deal flow. Returns in excess of 20% pa are targeted within a 5-7 year timeframe, plus variable tax benefits, including income tax relief, CGT deferral and proceeds except from CGT and IHT. | |
| February - £500,000 Robin Hill, Quorus Limited |
The client is a market-leading Search Engine Optimisation, Lead Generation and Online Marketing business, providing a truly distinct offering to the largely untapped UK SME sector. The client came to Beer in late 2009 to raise capital to expand the company’s existing profitable growth. Beer & Partners found them two private investors with relevant expertise, one of whom has joined the Board. This combination of money and skills is what attracted the Founders of the company to these investors. | |
| February - £225,000 Mike O'Brien |
This concept has been developed over several years by the client, who had extensive negotiations with Cadbury plc. It is intended to be the first Chocolate Themed Café of its kind and unique to the High Street. The café will feature the ‘Cadbury’ and ‘Green & Blacks’ brands, will attract the chocolate loving shopper, and will include a ‘Chocolate Chef’ in every store, creating ‘Theatre’ from Chocolate, and an interactive ‘Kids’ Play Tray’ where the younger generation can create their own chocolate edible ‘masterpiece’ to take home and enjoy. The funds raised at this stage, from one Beer investor, were to enable the first of many intended units to be opened. | |
| January - £30,000 Andrew Wilson |
Statement Pending | |
| January - £200,000 Robin Hill, Quorus Limited |
The client is an emerging market leader in specialist food processing software, helping to reduce waste, cost and improve efficiency in large scale food production environments. The client came to Beer in early 2009 to raise capital to take the company to market. Beer & Partners found them a main strategic investment fund to help them grow the company, and this is the first tranche of a planned larger investment. The funders were also able to introduce meaningful match grant funding. This combination of money and other facilities is what attracted the founders of the company to these investors. | |
| January - £135,000 Patrick Angier |
This was a further round of funding to provide working capital for this rapidly growing business. There was an extremely high level of interest from our investors, particularly as the issue was in bonds and equity with high interest returns. A syndication of 14 investors supplied funds from £5,000 up to £150,000. The total raised for this client now approaches £700,000. | |
| January - £385,000 Simon Heywood & Richard Silberbauer |
This company has developed products to rapidly diagnose diseases in livestock, humans and vegetables. This was syndicated amongst ten investors; £335,000 investments were made from September to December and a further £50,000 in January this year. | |
| January - £200,000 Dwight Makins |
This company will build a large tyre recycling pyrolysis plant on Teesside. With grants and other money raised, this sum enables the company to reach the commencement of a turnkey building project in 2010. | |
| January - £130,000 Angus Milne |
Completing this third round of fund-raisings through the Beer Investor Fair brings the total raised from Beer Investors to nearly £900,000, on the back of which this company were able to raise a further £1m from four outsiders, to enable them to open the next series of outlets for their popular style of 'healthy fast food'. | |
| January - £100,000 David Rich |
Statement Pending | |