A £150,000 investment from the Finance For Business North East Growth Fund that NEL Fund Managers administers is helping a specialist North East importer/wholesaler put its plans to expand right across the UK into action.

Amitex LED Lighting Co Ltd supplies a growing range of green, energy-efficient LED lighting products to some of the biggest electrical wholesalers in the UK from its Hexham base, and it is now looking to capitalise on the back of an explosion in demand for its products over the last three years.