- CEO
- Anthony Michael Coombs
- Full Time Employees
- 210
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Finance/Rental/Leasing
- Address
- 2 Stratford Court Birmingham WMD United Kingdom B90 4QT
- IPO Date
- Jan 4, 1983
- Business
- S&U plc provides specialist motor finance and property bridging loans in the United Kingdom through its principal subsidiaries, Advantage Finance Limited and Aspen Bridging Limited; Advantage Finance offers hire purchase financing for new and used cars, vans, motorbikes, and caravans primarily in the non-prime lending sector to over 80,000 customers via motor dealers nationwide; Aspen Bridging delivers short-term secured loans for residential and commercial properties, including products for refinancing, capital raising, auction purchases, and refurbishments, with loan sizes up to more than 15 million pounds and an average of around 1 million pounds for individual and business borrowers. The company, founded in 1938 and headquartered at 2 Stratford Court, Cranmore Boulevard, Shirley, Solihull, England, operates exclusively in the UK financial services industry, focusing on credit services within the motor and property bridging segments. In recent developments, Aspen Bridging achieves a record annual profit before tax of 7.2 million pounds in 2025 through enhanced lending and repayment volumes; the group maintains steady operations following the 2015 divestiture of its former home credit business and continues to leverage in-house systems and introducer networks established post-2011 credit crunch recovery.