Olympic bronze medal winner Steve Parry is behind Total Swimming Holdings and their successful Swim! chain.
His Elm Square based business has launched swim centres in Warrington, Oldham and Sheffield, with a further development in the pipeline to the south of Liverpool.
Parry was also instrumental in helping to get the temporary pool at Radcliffe off the ground, working with Bury Council.
Now TSH has been recommended for a £2m loan from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s investment framework programme.
Under the initative, the Whitefield company will put up £1m to fund future growth ambitions.
In a joint report by Cllr David Molyneux, the GMCA’s portfolio lead for investment and resources and Eamonn Boylan, the portfolio lead chief executive for investment, they outline why TSH was successful.