We are a men's fashion brand combining original, community-inspired design with advanced data analytics.
Business overview
Location | Guildford, United Kingdom |
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Social media | |
Website | www.blakemill.co.uk |
Sectors | Clothing & Accessories Mixed Digital/Non-Digital B2C |
Company number | 06686612 |
Incorporation date | 2 Sep 2008 |
Investment summary
Business highlights
- Annual gross revenues over £1.1m August 2022 YTD*
- Over 20,000 customers to date
- 40% returning customer rate
- Since Jul 22 50%+ of new designs registered with UK IP Office
Key features
Idea
Introduction
Blake Mill delivers community inspired fashion.
We are a men’s fashion brand focused on unique design. We create all sorts of designs – bold and brash to subdued and subtle. Some will appeal to a large community, others to a specific niche. Before we launch any new Blake Mill product though, we ask “Do you like this?”. The result is fashion that our customers become engaged with – garments into which they have invested time and energy helping to choose.
*Revenue information from management accounts

Substantial accomplishments to date
2015
· Steve and Ross launched the original business as a wholesale shirt manufacturer in a 19th century converted textile mill in Bollington, UK learning everything there is to know about making excellent quality shirts.
2017
· Ken joined Ross and Steve to re-engineer the business from wholesale to direct to consumer
· Outsourced production to manufactures after careful process of selection by Blake Mill management
· By mid-year Ken and Steve had jointly splashed out over £1 million to help finance development of the business

2018
· Our online store, www.blakemill.co.uk was launched in April
· Monthly online revenues* climbed from under £2,000 to over £58,000 from Aug. to Nov. 2018
2019
· Moved head office to central Manchester from Bollington
· Outsourced all warehousing and fulfilment
2020
· Launched short sleeve shirt range

· Set up dedicated customer support function
· Began development of statistical analysis tools for inventory and advertising management optimisation
2021
· Began community collaborations for new design selections
· Launched button down collar range

2022
· Launched Lux Jersey range & Limited edition range of long and short sleeve shirts

· Restarted sales to the US and select EU countries
· Hired UK Lead Buyer
· Engaged over 35 influencers with an aggregate of over 15 million followers since February
· Began formal registration of designs with UK IP Office
Monetisation strategy
We currently generate revenue from customers buying from our website www.blakemill.co.uk. We have numerous other Blake Mill URL’s that point to our UK website including www.blakemill.com and www.blakemill.de. The majority of our customers are in the UK. We plan to expand sales into the US and continental Europe via our online platform in 2023.
A small portion of our revenue is generated by a few UK retailers who pay for our product in advance of receiving it. By expanding our retail network we will strive to enhance revenue and brand recognition.
All of our marketing is online including paid advertising, influencer marketing and email marketing. Our average customer lifetime value is £143 from Apr 2021 to Mar 2022. This is almost 3.5 times our customer acquisition cost from 2020 to 2021 of £42 per unit.

Use of proceeds
Your investment will help us to fuel 4 drivers of growth:
1) Marketing: We plan to further invest in impactful digital assets (video and imagery) to broadcast across a growing (and changing) landscape of paid & social channels.
2) Product Range Expansion: This funding will help us expand our product range across the wardrobe, leveraging broader market appeal and increased incentive for repeat customers in order to rapidly grow revenue.
3) Geographical Expansion: Leveraging efficient global distribution capability from our UK facilities we will target logistics and marketing spend to the US and Europe.
4) Technology/R&D: Using existing technologies we have begun digitally prototyping new garments. We plan to uniquely label every garment facilitating traceability of raw materials used and establishing a base for a resale market for our proprietary designs. Technology will facilitate expansion of our community driven design process with anticipated projects in 3D printed garment components and in Web 3.0.
Key Information
Debt
The company has the following outstanding loans:
Warp Global, Inc (an Ontario, Canada Limited company 100% owned by Ken Price who is Director, CEO and shareholder in Blake Mill) has an outstanding unsecured, interest-free loan with the Company amounting to £156,061. This loan does not have a maturity date.
Radhka Seth (a shareholder in Blake Mill) has an outstanding unsecured loan at 7% interest with the Company amounting to £25,000. This loan does not have a maturity date.
The Company has taken out an unsecured Bounce Back Loan at 2.5% interest with HSBC amounting to £50,000 on 10th May 2020, with £46,647.00 outstanding. The maturity date for this loan is 8th November 2027.
The Company has taken out an unsecured loan at 11.80% interest through the Recovery Loan Scheme with the Funding Circle amounting to £210,000 on 12th May 2022, with £196,818 outstanding. The maturity date for this loan is 12th June 2027.
A Director has an outstanding unsecured, interest-free loan with the Company amounting to £320,835.08. This loan does not have a maturity date.
A Director has an outstanding unsecured, interest-free loan with the Company amounting to £158,613.81. This loan does not have a maturity date.
A former Director (Jane French, the wife of Stephen French who is Director, COO and shareholder in Blake Mill) has an outstanding unsecured, interest-free loan with the Company amounting to £571,685.60. This loan does not have a maturity date.
Funds from this round will not be used to repay these loans.
Share Classes
The company has the following Share Classes:
1) Preference Shares
■ 1x participating preference on liquidation and exit. Preference shareholders will receive their initial investment amount first before the remaining proceeds are distributed between all shareholders pro rata. The value of the preference totals £49,996.25.
■ No voting rights.
2) Ordinary Shares
■ Voting Rights
■ No exit or liquidation preference
Investors in this round will receive Ordinary Shares.
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