When trying to find out the best way to fund your businesses expansion it can be difficult to work out the best way to get funding, often articles and reports can be contradictory and confusing. Even though headlines are saying that more money is being offered to SMEs through traditional banks, it can still be difficult to get quick and reasonable funding options.
Keeping ahead of your competition often means responding quickly to customer changes and making sure you have the most up-to-date equipment or changing your business décor. A quicker, simpler and more personal experience can be had from choosing a leasing option with Johnson Reed.

For over 15 years Johnson Reed have been helping our suppliers to grow and do more business. We are not content with just simply processing finance; we want to actively help them secure their orders.
Through our “Just Lease It” business plan we support our suppliers with dedicated account managers for each sector. We also offer a single point of contact from the initial enquiry to final payout, which increases the speed of acceptance and provides a smooth, easy transaction.

We all know a business needs to make sales to survive; securing a client purchase is key. You can offer them discounts, extra help, free fitting or specific knowledge on the subject but if the buyers cash flow isn’t there you will run into issues.
But don’t worry, that’s where Johnson Reed can help you. Vendors who use financing as a tool can not only successfully gain a sale, but it can increase the amount of equipment purchased and even lead to repeat sales.

Miller Metcalfe, are the people’s choice for Property Services in the North West.  And with their network of branches across prominent locations and specialist departments such as Auctions, Commercial and Property Surveys – it’s no wonder why. The team’s dynamic approach to buying, selling or letting has been fundamental to the company’s success.
By changing the face of traditional estate agency, Miller Metcalfe have become a property services retailer, implementing multi-channel marketing programmes and embracing the very latest digital technology to reach out to their existing and prospective customers.

The Samlesbury Hotel is a high-quality 4-star hotel based near Preston, in Lancashire. Originally starting life as the Swallow Hotel, the 2-star hotel was purchased by Squire Hotels (owners of the 4-str Etrop Grange hotel in Manchester) in April 2013 and has since been renamed, refurbished, and now rewarded with its own 4-star rating.
Since being taken over by Squire, the experienced management company undertook a rigorous schedule of modernisation at the hotel, with ambitious plans to make it a high-end destination for guests looking for a place to stay, business people looking for meeting and conference venues, diners looking for a great meal, and even couples looking to get married.

The Beach Hut, Great Harwood, Lancs, is a brand new play centre that provides activities for children of all ages. Owner Mel had the dream of opening a play centre in her local area for many years and spent this time saving and learning the requirements of running such a site.
When developing the centre, Mel wanted to offer a full range of exciting activities for children of all ages in a purpose-built building that offers a multi-level soft play frame for ages 3-11, which features wavy slides, obstacle climber, sports pitch, and creepy climber.

Team Karting is a brand new indoor go-karting centre based in Rochdale. They offer thrill rides for individuals or teams of ten or more on a 325-metre track that features 12 bends. The state of the art SODI 200cc Karts are suitable for ages 15 and up and the smaller 125cc cadets Karts are available for children aged 8-15.
Customers can arrive and drive with groups of 8 or less or come in groups of 8 or more for Iron Man endurance races, corporate packages, grand prix style events and go-karting leagues and championships. To make this whole indoor centre possible they needed to raise the funds for all the equipment.

Brand new, on-the-go desert brand My Cookie Dough has opened its first site at St. David’s shopping centre in Cardiff. The business offers their freshly baked cookie dough with a choice of toppings that are made order, along with fresh milkshakes made with ice cream and much more.
Their open plan layout means the customers can watch their products being made and have the unique option to collect loyalty points by the use of the fingerprint scanner.

Carlisle based Nortech are a company that helps other businesses run smoothly by offering them total telecommunications solutions. Whether it is mobilising a work force, adding a new phone lines or finding a two-way radio solutions, they will make their communications packages fit around the customer.
For over thirty years Nortech have been at the forefront of technology when it comes to connecting people for business and event management. They even offer complementary services such a car kit repair, tracker installations and mobile phone repair.

Active4Less is a group of 9 established gyms that are situated throughout the UK. With a combined number of 15,000 members, they believe their success is based on a truly unique set up. They strive to get as much member input as possible and use that to shape how the facilities work best.
With business going strong they decided to expand by opening up a 10th gym in Luton, fitted it with all new equipment provided by Startrac, Physical Company, Wolverson, and Boditrax.