Growth
South West Businesses: Building Optimism and Unlocking Growth
The Southwest has always been a region full of creativity, resilience and ambition. From its rugged coastlines and rural heartlands to its thriving towns and cities, it is a place where enterprise takes many forms — family-owned firms passed down through generations, innovative start-ups making their mark, growing companies eager to explore new horizons, and large companies leading the world in aerospace engineering and nuclear power generation.
Sustainable Growth - Why a Clear Growth Strategy Matters More Than Ever
In uncertain political and economic times, having a clear and deliberate growth strategy is crucial for business success. This strategy should be regularly reassessed, clearly communicated, and supported by aligned culture and processes to ensure sustainable growth.
Unlocking Growth: How Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Can Fuel the UK’s Productivity
Whatever the Chancellor announces in the budget, one of the biggest challenges for the UK economy is growth, and for business that often means productivity. In recent years, UK business has had to deal with many challenges related to a series of significant socio-economic events impacting costs, productivity and growth. In a turbulent and uncertain market, how can small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) not only survive, but also thrive?
The UK business environment: easy to start, hard to scale
The Entrepreneurs Network (TEN) survey of 236 UK founders, conducted in May/June 2025, made for some difficult reading. Whilst most respondents thought the UK was an easy place to start a business, many thought it had become difficult to scale. Getting funding, regulation and Government attitudes to entrepreneurs were all cited as reasons. Ambitious business owners can still build big, but it needs discipline, boldness, planning, resourcing and resilience.
Growth potential - to realise the exit that you want, it is vital that you invest in developing your leadership and management capability
Small businesses are the backbone of the UK economy, accounting for 99.9% of the business population and over half of private sector employment. Yet despite their vital role, many small firms are struggling to scale. While access to finance, regulation, and infrastructure are frequently cited barriers, one of the most under-recognised factors limiting small business growth is the underinvestment in people - particularly in leadership and management capability.
Building to Sell Requires Business Owners to be Proactive, Ambitious and to Take Risks
For many small business owners, selling their company may not be top of mind in the early days. The focus tends to be on survival, then sustainability, and eventually growth. But those who build with the end in mind from the earliest stages, position themselves to create businesses that are not only successful, but also valuable, transferable assets when the time comes to exit.
Opportunities for growth - problems can drive innovative solutions
At the end of July, the UK Government released ‘Backing your Business: Our Plan for Small and Medium Sized Business’. Key to this plan is the understanding that SMEs are the UK economy’s “engine room” and that “accelerating SME growth by just 1% a year could deliver £320 billion to the UK economy by 2030”.
Growth Challenges: Six Evergreen Challenges All Businesses Should Prepare For
No matter how successful your business is today, change is inevitable. Businesses grow, stall, change direction, or sometimes fail—not just because of external forces, but often because of internal transitions they are unprepared for. Understanding these transitions is crucial to long-term success.
Sustainable Business Practices to Help Increase Your Exit Valuation
Sustainable practices are not just about the environment, they make good business sense too, especially if you are thinking about the value of your business in preparation for your exit.
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