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County Durham streetwear clothing brand secures £97.5k investment

I Sunk Your Battleship (ISYB), a County Durham-based clothing brand, has received an investment totalling £97,500.

The streetwear brand received the majority of the investment (£80,000) from Northstar Ventures, Finance for Business, Proof of Concept Fund.

The funding will be used to enable the company to ramp-up its production and marketing efforts.

Ross McPhie, managing director of ISYB, said: “With Northstar’s involvement and belief in our brand, we have been able to develop more ambitious collections and products than before. We are excited about the future of our brand and where our journey might take us.”

The clothing products are all designed in-house by ISYB, and currently manufactured and printed in the UK with many of the products created from start to finish in the North East.

The brand is stocked across a number of different shops, including regional outlets Capology in Newcastle and Hotspur1364 in Alnwick.

James Foster, investment manager at Northstar Ventures, added: “ISYB is an interesting company to work with and it has some unique designs which make it stand out from competitors.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .