Springfield Homecare Services, part of Springfield Healthcare Group, has completed the acquisition of Positive Life Choices, a domiciliary care business based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Springfield Homecare is a provider of domiciliary care in Yorkshire and Humberside and is backed by Business Growth Fund.

UK-based Business Growth Fund has invested 6.25 million pounds ($10 million) of growth capital for a minority stake in London-based Peyton and Byrne. The restaurant group is a retail bakery and events business.

UK-based Business Growth Fund has appointed John Swarbrick as head of portfolio. He will be joining immediately to play a key role in overseeing BGF’s rapidly growing portfolio of high growth entrepreneurial businesses. Business Growth Fund was set up to help Britain’s smaller and medium sized businesses

Wear Inns, a company focused on acquiring and managing a chain of community pubs across the North of England, has acquired a further two premises from the Orchid Pub Group. The company acquired nine pubs from TCG Bars in July 2012, so has completed a total of 11 acquisitions only five months after receiving a £10 million funding package from NVM Private Equity and Business Growth Fund. This will bring Wear Inns’ managed pub estate to a total of 26 premises.

Business Growth Fund has invested 5.4 million pounds ($8.8 million) growth capital in Swanbridge Hire and Sales, a provider of industrial scaffolding services, based in Barry, South Wales. This is the fourth investment to be led by BGF’s regional team for the South West of England and South Wales.

UK-based Business Growth Fund has invested 3 million pounds ($4.8 million) of growth capital in Shuropody, a UK-based specialist footcare provider. Midlands-based Shuropody has local branches in Birmingham, Coventry, Leamington Spa and Stratford-Upon-Avon. PRESS RELEASE Business Growth Fund (BGF), established to help the UK’s fast growing smaller and medium sized businesses, today announced that is [...]

Wear Inns, a company focused on acquiring and managing a chain of community pubs across the North of England, has purchased nine pubs from TCG Bars. This will bring Wear Inns’ managed pub estate to a total of 24 premises, with plans to acquire more in the near future. The acquisition comes two months after [...]

UK investors Business Growth Fund and NVM Private Equity have committed a combined 10 million pounds ($16.1 million) of growth capital in acquisitive Northern pub chain, Wear Inns. BGF has invested 8 million pounds and NVM has invested a further 2 million pounds in the business, which it has backed since start-up in 2006. BGF [...]

UK-based investor Business Growth Fund has committed 3.85 million pounds ($6.2 million) of growth capital in Glasgow based technology business M Squared Lasers. BGF will take a minority stake in the business and will join the existing board. PRESS RELEASE Business Growth Fund (BGF), established to help the UK’s fast growing smaller and medium sized [...]

Business Growth Fund, established to help fund UK small and medium sized businesses, has made its first investment in the North West, with a 3.25 million pounds ($5.21 million) investment in Mexican street food chain, Barburrito. Founded in 2005 by Manchester- based entrepreneurs, Morgan Davies and Paul Kilpatrick, Barburrito is a chain of fast-casual Mexican [...]