For small or mid-sized business owners, is there anything as satisfying (and even a little daunting) as creating a growth plan and hitting set milestones along the way? Growing your business not only takes strategy, but also money to fund executing that strategy, which probably involves acquiring more business equipment.
Those funds can come in the form of reinvesting profit back into your business, taking on equity partners, depleting cash reserves and using financing to obtain essential business equipment. Reinvesting profit back in the business is a common way to support growth; however, this approach can take a lot of time. Raising equity can quickly infuse your business with cash, but cash gained means a loss of ownership. Spending cash reserves can leave your business vulnerable without a safety net should an opportunity arise or an emergency occurs. Equipment financing gives you the funds you need to take your business to the next level without waiting or giving up control.
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Use Equipment Financing to Get a New Location Up and Running
If your business growth strategy includes opening additional locations, then those locations will need to be furnished with equipment. You will incur a lot of additional expenses when expanding your company’s footprint, but buying or leasing equipment out of pocket need not be one of them.
Financing your equipment purchase or lease allows you to equip your new location(s) and pay over time. Ideally, the additional revenue generated from the new business will more than cover the monthly financing payment.
Examples include:
- Restaurants that open new locations
- Medical offices that open satellite facilities
Use Equipment Financing to Expand Your Services or Product Offerings
Whether it’s to meet demand, fill a void in the marketplace or to keep up with your competitors’ offerings, financing an equipment purchase or lease can expand your services or product offerings.
Examples include:
- Medical practices that finance new technology to keep patients in office versus referring them to others for procedures and tests
- Construction companies that finance equipment that enables them to keep more projects in house rather than subbing to contractors
Use Financing to Replace Old Equipment or Upgrade to New Technology
Financing new or used equipment to replace old and outdated technology can give your business a competitive edge. Outdated equipment slows down a business and decreases efficiency, which impacts your ability to compete with other companies and your bottom line.
Examples include:
- Printing companies that finance faster, better, more advanced presses to offer clients more options
- Manufacturing companies that finance equipment to increase production speed, eliminate inefficiency or limit manual tasks
Choose an Equipment Financing Provider Who Understands Your Business and Industry
Global Financial & Leasing Services (GFLS) finances equipment leases and purchases for business owners in a variety of industries, including:
- Automotive
- Cannabis
- Construction
- Forestry/Logging
- Healthcare/Medical
- Machinery/Manufacturing
- Recycling/Waste
- Restaurant
- Titled Vehicles
- Transportation Equipment
We help business owners, like you, find a financing solution that works for you and your budget. Imperfect credit doesn’t mean an automation rejection; you tell us your story, and we listen. We are one of the few equipment financing companies who will advocate for you.
When you choose GFLS, you can:
- Typically get 100% financing with no down payment
- Maintain working capital for use in other areas of your business, such as expansion or hiring more employees
- Benefit from tax considerations associated with purchase financing
- Refer to Section 179
- Include additional costs such as sales tax, delivery and installation
- Build your Business Credit profile
Let our team create a financing solution that can help take your business to the next level. Contact us today to get started!



From being in the startup phase to pushing through a growth stage or rising like a phoenix from the ashes of a downturn, there are times when you need to finance essential business equipment. Doing so isn’t cut and dry for many business owners, but rather presents a series of hurdles to overcome in order to obtain the equipment financing they need to start, grow or rebuild the company.
As of this writing, 48 states have legalized cannabis in some form, recreationally, medically or both. But, until cannabis is no longer a Schedule I controlled substance on the federal level, those seeking cannabis equipment financing will have a difficult time getting traditional bank funding. Big banks are prohibited from lending money to businesses that profit from controlled substance sales. Even though non-traditional and private lenders are stepping in to fund cannabis equipment financing, startups and those with credit blemishes have a hard time finding solutions.
In November of 2021, the House of Representatives passed the Senate version of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and President Biden signed it in to law. Not only does IIJA’s passage mark the biggest investment in the U.S.’s infrastructure since the New Deal, it also triggers a starting gun for companies that will contract with the government directly or government contractors on projects, ranging from transportation and water to energy, broadband, and rehabilitating our country’s natural resources. Overall, the bill represents approximately $1.2 trillion, which is about $550 billion in new spending with over half of that focused on transportation—an area that requires heavy equipment.


From startups to global corporations and from cash-flush to cash-strapped companies, they all take advantage of and benefit from vendor financing. In fact, the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (
For small business owners, your personal credit history plays a role in obtaining essential use business equipment financing. However, lenders also draw a correlation between your personal credit history and your business credit report—the belief being that people tend to treat their business accounts much like they do their personal accounts. If you’re a new small business owner, your personal credit history will take precedence over any business credit history you’ve yet to build. But, if your business is established, your business credit report pulls more weight on an equipment financing application.
Our team at Global Financial & Leasing Services (GFLS) has heard some pretty scary stories about the process for applying for equipment financing with other lenders, not to mention awaiting credit decisions. The stories range from applicants filling out pages upon pages of tedious financial information to lenders stringing them along only to deny credit. In the end, applicants are left without the equipment they need for their business or starting the entire process over again with a different lender in hopes of a different result. Either way, time and frustration can be avoided if you have a clear understanding of the application process and work with a lender willing to work with you.
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