Your high street bank 'borrows' money from savers and lends to people who want to buy a house, or companies who want to build a factory.

However, plans to build the factory are on hold.

She would also have struggled to convince a bank to provide the capital needed to build a factory of the size and standard demanded by supermarkets, she added.

With his adventurous and entrepreneurial spirit, he purchased 300,000 square feet of reclaimed land to build a factory manufacturing plastic film and synthetic leather.

This was far from ideal and a commission was set up to look into purchasing the machinery and knowledge to build a factory.