Our aims? - to be different and to make a difference (Published April 2007)

Since 1991 we have provided complicated transaction finance, using methods that were innovative at the time. We pioneered the funding of focused sales ledgers, and restarts, and construction industry debt finance, each at the time when others were shy. Now all that is normal, so we look elsewhere for innovation in funding our clients.

Straw panels before the lime applicationAs our insurable covenant, now over £1m, and reputation has grown we can do new things. We buy goods on normal credit for our clients from all over the world with our economical supplier undertaking. It is used by new starts and restarts buying in the UK, and by both importers and exporters. It assists any business that cannot get supplier credit, such as those in a CVA or bought from an administrator, including manufacturers. But this is not news if you have read our earlier adverts

The Fairfax Food Group plc is new. By putting our food clients in one group they all get the benefits of scale, the supplier and customer contacts of our other clients, and they all own shares in their listed company. Maybe there are some prospective food clients who want to join this?

"Our growing group of environmental clients have some brilliant and unique products"

How about the Fairfax Environmental Group plc? Our growing group of environmental clients have some brilliant and unique products. It is premature to collate these clients in a listed group at the moment, but we do promote their products worldwide. For example:

How about HiRAD plc? High Rate Anaerobic Digestion of organic waste, a new continuous process, saves landfill and provides zero-carbon power in the UK and the EU within 24 hours. It creates jobs and power in Africa and Asia. It resulted from us putting two of our clients together.

Many major retailers in the UK are seeking to reduce their carbon footprint; every local authority has to reduce landfill. HiRAD is the technology to enable both of them, and it has world-scale potential. Exciting times; exciting clients. Food for thought, as well as anaerobic digestion

We are a proud small company of 15 souls with a mission to be different, and to make a difference - to our country - to our world. With your help, we do...


Written by David Ross Director

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