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Success Stories

Hear how other UK businesses have used external finance to help reach their goals

Keep reading to hear from just a handful of the smaller businesses funded through our partners, with the support of British Business Investments’ programmes.

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Class 1 Vehicle Hire

Class 1 Vehicle Hire Ltd is an independent family vehicle and van hire company based in Larbert, near Falkirk, Scotland. It supplies vehicles on a daily, weekly, and monthly rental basis and has a fleet of nearly 300 vehicles.

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Yoto

Started in 2017, Yoto is an interactive audio player platform for kids. With big growth ambitions, it sought finance to scale its products, processes and systems and allow Yoto to expand internationally and to hire a world-class team.

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Complete Smiles

Complete Smiles is a start-up offering general, cosmetic and advanced dentistry. The business required finance from Kingsway to begin scaling up from an initial pilot, and to support growth. Started in 2021, it is in the process of opening a second dental practice to support current demand on services

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Laird London

In 2009, Alex and Zofia Torun-Shaw were looking for a creative, niche retail business to begin. It was a good time to get into retail; the financial crisis meant that you could get preferential terms and long leases at low prices. The idea of a hat shop was almost on a whim, but it fitted – so to speak.

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Shawbrook Bank

London-based Shawbrook Bank is a specialist savings and lending bank founded in 2011 to offer small and medium-sized businesses and consumer customers in the UK a range of lending and saving products.

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Wilton and Bain Group Limited

Wilton & Bain (W&B) provides executive search services in the professional services, digital services and legal sector in the UK, Europe and USA. It also provides interim management executives to the corporate and digital services sectors in the UK.