USC - Designer Clothing for Men and Women. Today, there are 40 USC stores throughout the UK and Ireland stretching from Inverness in the North to Brighton in the South with many more in the pipeline for 2005.

Travelodge, the UK’s only low-cost hotel chain, an excellently run business was added to the West Coast Capital Portfolio with a sale and leaseback of 135 of its properties. This project is another joint venture with Prestbury Investments Holdings Ltd.

Office shoes are a high street shoe retailer serving the smart fashion market. Office have stores across the UK and continue to expand. Offspring the Pioneering sneaker store and winner of best footwear store in the world 1997 is included within the Office business.

Catalyst Capital and Bank of Scotland have a Joint Venture with WCC. The Joint Venture has £340 million worth of shopping centre property.

Acquired a portfolio of 220 pubs along with Prestbury Investment Holdings Ltd and Bank of Scotland in spring 2004 for £500 million from the Spirit Group on a lease back deal. Other partners on the deal were Reuben Brothers.