Businesses Seeking Loan

Business: Moroccan sweets, wedding cakes and catering bakery operating online in Abu Dhabi. - Headline offering: Traditional Moroccan sweets, handmade cookies, all types of wedding cakes and event catering. - Sales channels: Direct online orders via Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat enquiries; no physical storefront sales yet. - Customers: Day-to-day customer base of 20–30 orders, serving private customers, brides/couples, and small event clients. - Location & footprint: Kitchen and planned coffee shop within the same 200-metre space in Abu Dhabi; currently a home/production kitchen transitioning to a coffee shop setup. - Team: 9 employees total 3 main chefs, 3 helpers, plus 3 supporting staff (admin/delivery/operations). - Financials: Current annual revenue approximately AED 200,000 from online bakery and catering sales. - Growth plan: Expanding into an on-site coffee shop/coffee bar to capture walk-in customers and increase bakery retail sales. - Revenue model: Earns money by selling baked goods (cookies, sweets), custom wedding cakes, and catering packages; direct payments via social-media-driven orders. - Competitive strengths: Handmade artisanal products, niche Moroccan sweets specialization, strong social-media presence and direct customer engagement (Instagram marketing, WhatsApp ordering).

The company is in a pre-revenue phase. - It plans to generate sales through swimwear with sewn-in foam aids that combine safety and style. - The products are designed for adults and children, including those with disabilities. - The company is registered as a private limited entity.

The company specializes in manufacturing and supplying school uniforms. - The top-selling products include tracksuit sets, coats, jackets, shirts, and pants. - Our main customers are schools, which refer parents to our shop to purchase the required uniforms. - We currently serve more than 200 schools across Nepal. - Our revenue model is based on bulk orders from schools along with direct retail sales to parents and organizations. - Our machinery has the capacity to produce 200 tracksuit sets per day, and we utilize around half of this capacity daily. - In addition to school uniforms, we also manufacture custom t-shirts, tracksuits, ties, belts, sports jerseys, and uniforms for companies, hotels, hospitals, and other organizations. - The company is registered as a private limited entity.

Business: photocopier reseller and service provider located in Gampaha, specializing in multi-brand used office copiers and multifunction printers (3-in-1, 4-in-1). - Products: refurbished multi-brand office copiers, multifunction printers (print/scan/copy/fax), and replacement parts for office printing equipment. - Services: installation, on-site servicing, preventative maintenance, and technical support for corporate and government offices. - Customers: serves ~100 active clients including corporate offices, factories, government offices, and reseller wholesalers. - Sales volume: sells 25–30 machines per month, generating recurring revenue from consumables, maintenance contracts, and spare parts. - Distribution & wholesale: supplies machines both direct-to-end-user and via wholesale channels to other dealers, supporting B2B sales and inventory turnover. - Owner/operator: single-employee operation run by a promoter-technician with 20 years’ experience in copier repair, maintenance, and sales. - Licensing: holds an import license and a telecommunications license enabling legal importation of used copiers and compliant connectivity/telemetry installations. - Competitive strengths: deep technical expertise, local market presence in Gampaha, fast turnaround on repairs, and cost-competitive refurbished equipment for budget-conscious offices.

Men’s fashion wholesale business based in Bogotá selling apparel to retailers across Colombia. - Ready-to-wear men’s clothing lines produced via outsourced manufacturing partners, with in-house branding and design. - Current scalable manufacturing capacity is 500–1,000 units per month depending on agreements with production partners; capacity can be expanded with additional outsourcing. - There are 15 active wholesale clients currently, concentrated in the Putumayo department, with the ability to grow to 30–50 retail clients through expanded production and targeted marketing. - Revenue is generated through wholesale sales to retailers with invoice payment terms averaging 20–25 days, generating recurring B2B cash flow from bulk orders and reorders. - Operating as a registered business in the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce with tax registration, enabling formal invoicing, legal contracts, and wholesale distribution across Colombian markets.

Business located in Seremban, a paddy farming enterprise with SSM and agriculture registrations. - Currently non-operational since 5 years due to COVID-19; planning to restart cultivation and processing operations. - Core activity is paddy cultivation using high-technology farming methods (precision agriculture and mechanized planting) to increase yield and reduce labor costs. - Vertical integration plan to move from selling paddy to rice mills toward acquiring rice mill and performing in-house rice milling and processing. - Product line includes harvested paddy, milled rice (white/specialty grades after processing), and potential by-products (rice bran and husk) for added revenue streams. - Customers primarily were government buyers and institutional buyers (public procurement contracts), plus wholesale distribution channels for processed rice. - All machinery is procured from Japan, ensuring advanced technology, high efficiency, and reliable farming and processing operations. - When operational, historical quarterly revenue ranged between MYR 500,000 and MYR 1.2 million depending on harvest cycles and seasonality. - Planned revenue model is to sell milled rice through distribution and government tenders, plus possible contract farming and bulk supply agreements; additional income from value-added rice products and by-product sales. - Competitive advantages are tech-enabled paddy planting for higher yields, existing regulatory registrations, and established government buyer relationships.