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Mechanical services - heating, ventilation and air conditioning. The company has seen rapid and profitable growth since 2009 and now typically handles mechanical packages of value between £50k and £600k. Based in Altrincham, Manchester the company is currently working on multiple projects with business value split roughly 50/50 between ventilation systems and heat recovery VRF air conditioning systems. A strong balance sheet and positive cash, strongly supported by RBS.

Bleachers, dyers and printers. Continuous wet processing - textiles. Bought company whilst in administration as part of Lamont Holdings Plc with cash deal. Company had lost approx £29m cumulative in preceding years. Turned company into a break even trading position within first year of ownership and traded until August 2005. The company was one of the largest textile printers in Europe with capacity to print and finish nearly one million metres of fabric each week through seven stork rotary printing machines, each capable of printing up to 20 colours and supported with a Brugman continuous bleaching range and ancillary equipment. In house design, laser engraving and ink jet sampling through to automated colour kitchens and production, all on a 9 acre 250,000 sq ft site in Rochdale town centre. Increasing import penetration diluted the market to such an extent that I decided the market could not support a volume manufacturer into the future and I took the decision to cease trading in 2005. The sale of plant, land and assets concluded in 2008.

Acted as non executive chairman for a number of SME's on behalf of 3I Plc and Singer & Friedlander.

UK based textile manufacturing group with subsidiaries and/branches in UK, Portugal, Belgium, France, Germany, South Africa and Romania. Over 700 staff of which around 90 UK based. Led management buyout backed by 3I group and Bank of Scotland from Lion Mark Holdings in 1994 taking 55% of the equity personally. Sold group in 2001 with cash exit for all shareholders and taking retirement at that time. Worked within the company since 1979 through sales and finance and was made managing director under the ownership of Lion Mark Holdings (Lion Foods) in 1991.