Capital-hungry route - Tom Cobleigh: some investors have been slow to recognise that the key to a successful start-up more often than not lies with the entrepreneur involved and the nature of the idea, rather than the precise way the finance is structured

Article Abstract:

Indepenedent pub groups that were set up following the brewing industry's deregulation in the late 1980s have had mixed financial results, with only a few making good development capital investments. Tom Cobleigh, set up by Derek Mapp, is one of the best and was developed based on the concept of high profit, food orientated managed pubs, built from scratch or major refurbishments. A typical outlet involves investment of 800,000 pounds sterling or more, and the company now has 78 pubs. Some of the pubs acquired from Whitbread and Devenish are gradually being sold or converted, and the company's balance sheet projection includes 30 millio ponds sterling of fixed assets and 11 million pounds sterling of net assets.

Management, Venture capital, Tom Cobleigh

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Inward investment: London's attractions as a location for foreign investors are many, but elsewhere the trends are mixed

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The office market in London attracts overseas investors as there is more information than on any other City in the world. Therefore the city has seen a consistent stream of inward investment in offices and shops with about half coming from overseas buyers in 1993. However there are some who suggest that interest of overseas relocators for sites in the regions is falling.

Business relocation

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