Company overview

Cattles has three businesses - Welcome Finance, Shopacheck and The Lewis Group.

Until December 2009, Welcome Finance provided unsecured and secured personal loans and hire purchase for cars to individuals with non-standard credit profiles. Welcome Finance is now closed to new business. 

Welcome Finance has 400,000 customers whose accounts are managed by a network of branches across the United Kingdom. 

Shopacheck, the second largest player in its market ('home collected'), provides small ticket loans to customers with non-standard credit profiles. Local agents visit customers at home to collect customer repayments. 

The Lewis Group is a UK leader in debt recovery and investigation services, serving both external clients (e.g. banks, catalogue retailers, utility companies) as well as Welcome Finance.