FTD feature on No Limits site

29th June 2010

Sportsglobal (UK) Ltd MD George Moss and Commercial Director John Booth

Sportsglobal (UK) Ltd, owners of www.footballtradedirectory.com, have featured on the No Limits website after receiving funding from Finance4Growth.

In the article Sportsglobal (UK) Ltd Managing Director George Moss and Commercial Director John Booth talk about the origins of www.footballtradedirectory.com and plans for the future.

Speaking about the idea for the Football Trade Directory, John told No Limits: “I was looking for a new kit supplier for Stoke. I couldn’t find a single source of information that collated together maybe 40 or 50 suppliers anywhere. That gave us the idea for creating a directory and we thought the internet was the logical way to progress things.”

MD George Moss added:  “We did a lot of research; we probably spent two years building the first version of the website. That was released in 2007. It was fairly basic but the reception was good.”

The funding from Finance4Growth will allow the company to expand further with plans to break into other sports.

“The business model that we’ve created is just as applicable in rugby, cricket and educational sport and, with the London Olympics coming up, the possibilities there are very exciting as well. We can move into a whole range of sporting activities and that’s where our business is aimed at over the next year to 18 months,” John explains in the story.

George added: “For every business it’s all down to finance. Everyone needs a source of capital – it just helps with the rate of growth. That’s where Finance4Growth have been so crucial for us both in the initial stages of the business and now going forward into our next phase.”

You can read the full article on the No Limits website here.