£25,000
Completed transaction · Fashion retailer
£175,000 to buy Christmas stock before the Christmas sales.
Retail stock has to be bought months before peak trading pays for it. We arranged funding for the gap.
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- Amount
- £175,000
- Sector
- Fashion retailer
- Structure
- Revenue-based finance
- Outcome
- Completed
In short
The retailer needed funding for seasonal stock, especially ahead of Christmas, so it could build inventory before peak trading. We arranged £175,000. The £175,000 facility completed and the retailer could stock up ahead of its busiest season.
Retail cash flow is a balance between stock, suppliers and the takings that pay for them, and it moves with the seasons.
This fashion retailer wanted funding that would sit comfortably alongside that cycle.
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The requirement
The retailer needed funding for seasonal stock, especially ahead of Christmas, so it could build inventory before peak trading.
We arranged £175,000.
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The challenge
Stock has to be paid for long before the Christmas takings arrive. Funding it from cash would have left the business short through the build-up.
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The structure
We arranged revenue-based finance matched to the retailer's trading cycle, so repayments followed sales rather than landing as fixed payments before the peak.
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The result
The £175,000 facility completed and the retailer could stock up ahead of its busiest season.
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How do lenders look at a retail business?
They look at trading history, how stock is bought and sold, and how cash moves through the year. Funding that fits the stock cycle usually works better than a facility that fights it. See retail business loans.
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