Chickens come home to roost in Redditch for new business owners

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Nicky Godding

A family of successful retailers have turned their sights to poultry farming after buying a Redditch farm.

The Ghafar Family, have purchased Moorefield Farm, Redditch thanks to Central Business Finance, a Midlands-based, independent FCA approved finance broker, who secured over a million pound funding package to purchase the farm and create five new jobs.

Moorefield Farm is the first agricultural business for The Ghafar Family.

Larry Ghafar, Farm Manager at Moorefield Farm says says: “Opening our first poultry farm here in Alvechurch is a dream come true. We have always wanted to swap sides from retailer to producer and thanks to the team at Central Finance we can now commence our new journey.

“Opening and managing a poultry farm is no easy task and that in itself has been challenging, but rewarding. Understanding business finance and accessing the right funding package was crucial to purchasing the Moorefield Farm. Accessing finance for entrepreneurs and small businesses isn’t easy, but Central Business Finance came recommended and has a strong record of supporting small and growing businesses like ours, and I was keen to get them on board.”

Chris Brown, Director, Central Business Finance, adds; “Seeing Moorefield Farm open and ready for business under the proud owners Mr & Mrs Ghafar and their two sons is a great accomplishment. Supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses achieve growth across the Midlands and seeing Moorefield Farm hatch from concept to completion is a privilege - not to mention see the creation of 5 new jobs for the area!”

Larry added: “Central Business Finance took the time to understand our goals and objectives, our ideas, our desire to provide wholesome poultry produce, invest in the agricultural sector and our growth plans; and more importantly how we can achieve them. Their ability to understand and navigate complex funding options has ultimately taken away many late nights of form filling and more importantly gave us the time to dedicate our approach to farming, meet new customers and start recruiting.”

Central Business Finance, has already supported over 500 businesses in 2019 with commercial finance and has raised over £10 million in grant funding, driving significant growth for their respective clients.

Their clever mix of banking professionals, funding experts, accountants and other financial professionals including asset finance, provide clients with peace of mind their businesses, their finance and their future is in the right hands.

Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe. After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts. She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.