Liverpool postal group secures £1.6m investment

Merseyside postal services firm Secured Mail has attracted a £1.6m investment from a leading private equity group.

Aquarius Equity Partners (AEP) is to make the investment in order to help Secured Mail achieve its ambitious growth plans.

Secured Mail uses a fleet of fully-tracked Mercedes Sprinter vans to deliver millions of items of post every month.

Managing director Mark Bigley said, "we are delighted with this investment. It will provide the springboard for our growth and we are really looking forward to working with Aquarius to develop our service offering even further as a significant player in the postal market."

Liverpool-based Vanguard Corporate Finance facilitated the introduction with AEP, which established a £20m investment fund in November 2007 to support small firms in Merseyside and across the Northwest.