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British Business Investments – Annual Report 2023
Key highlights include:
- 19 new portfolio commitments to new and existing partners at a total value of £386m
- In its ninth year of operation, British Business Investments' cumulative commitments now exceeds £3.8bn
- At 6.4% five year adjusted return on average captial employed, delivering pre-tax profit of £38.1m in 2022/2023
- Support for more than 18,000 smaller businesses across the UK, more than 84% of which are outside London
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British Business Investments – Annual Report 2022
Key highlights include:
- A record number of commitments to new and existing delivery partners – 20 in total, at a value of £350m
- In its eighth year of operation, British Business Investments’ cumulative commitments reach almost £3.4bn
- A strong returns performance, delivering pre-tax profit of £189.4m
- Support for more than 24,000 smaller businesses across the UK, 85% of which are outside of London
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British Business Investments – Annual Report 2021
Key highlights include:
- A record number of 18 commitments to new and existing delivery partners, totalling £473m
- In its seventh year of operation, cumulative commitments are up 19% year-on-year to over £3bn
- Support for almost 30,000 smaller businesses across the UK, 85% of which are outside of London
- A strong returns performance, delivering pre-tax profit of £107.4m
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British Business Investments – Annual Report 2020
Key highlights include:
- A record year of 15 commitments totalling £547m, including to nine new delivery partners
- In its sixth year of operation, cumulative commitments are up 26% year-on-year to over £2.5bn
- British Business Investments is supporting more than 37,000 small and medium sized businesses across the UK, an increase of nearly 9% year-on-year
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British Business Investments Annual Report 2019
Key highlights for 2018/19 include:
- A gross annual income of £82m generated, delivering a pre-tax profit of £71m– an increase of 4.4% on 2017/18
- A gross return on average capital employed for the year of 6.5%, or 5.6% net of costs, ahead of benchmarks of 5.6% and 5.0% respectively
- Supporting over 34,000 small and medium sized business (SMEs) across the UK as at 31 March 2019, an increase of 28% on 31 March 2018
- At 31 March 2019, British Business Investments had invested £1.1bn through 46 portfolio investments.
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British Business Investments Annual Report 2018
Key highlights for 2017-18 include:
- A gross annual income of £76.2m generated, delivering a pre-tax profit of £67.9m – an increase of 23% on 2016/17
- A gross return on average capital employed for the year of 7.0%, or 6.2% net of costs, both ahead of benchmarks of 5.6% and 5.0% respectively
- Supporting nearly 27,000 business across the UK as at 31 March 2018, an increase of 51% on 31 March 2017
- British Business Investments currently has £1.2bn invested, alongside £9.1bn of private sector capital, across 58 investment partners