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Black Sheep Coffee raises £11.5m of liquidity

The coffee chain has raised this through a mixture of debt and equity to ‘ensure the group has sufficient liquidity to continue to trade while executing its growth strategy’. It also reported turnover of £32.41m and 38.2% growth in corporate store sales.

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