Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Economy
| Tags: Top Track 250,
interviews,
CEOs
Where is UK growth coming from? How have some businesses managed to beat the market and thrive in the downturn? We asked four successful CEOs and MDs from Top Track 250 companies for their insights.
Tuesday, February 05, 2013 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Economy
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
Grant Thornton,
economy,
growth,
UK,
CEO,
insight,
video,
Top Track 250,
interviews
The movies may have proved economically resilient during previous recessions but this one feels a little different, says Tim Richards, founder and CEO of Vue Entertainment.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
Grant Thornton,
growth,
UK,
CEO,
Top Track 250,
interviews,
CEOs,
Insight,
Video
Achieving growth in a recession isn’t easy, especially when your business is aligned with the public sector. We asked Thomas Martin, Joint MD of Arco, a supplier safety clothing, workwear, safety boots and safety equipment, how he navigates the bumpy economic terrain.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: growth,
interview,
Top Track 250,
interviews
How do you buck the economic downturn to achieve growth? We asked Simon Sherrard, Non-Executive Chairman of Liverpool-based Bibby Line Group, how he has steered a shipping company – a volatile industry at the best of times – through the stormy economic waters.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
CEO,
insight,
advice,
video,
interview,
leadership,
Jo Fairley,
Green & Black's,
ethical
Jo Fairley co-founded a chocolate empire. Here she talks about what she learnt from launching Green & Blacks Organic Chocolate and growing it into a global ethical brand. We’ve also pulled out 10 tips based on her experience and insights.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: business,
links,
UK,
sponsor,
conference,
review,
mid-market,
Festival of Business,
Telegraph,
high-growth,
high-growth companies
Catch up on last week’s Telegraph Festival of Business event for UK business leaders and entrepreneurs in our summary of quick links, plus some of the key points from our Grant Thornton panellists.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
CEO,
insight,
advice,
interview,
leadership,
Jo Fairley,
Green & Black's,
ethical,
organic
Chocoholic entrepreneur Josephine Fairley talks about how she co-founded Green & Black’s organic chocolate during the 1991 recession, built it into a global ethical brand and helped pioneer the modern concept of ethical business. “Which,” she says, “only goes to show there are opportunities as well as challenges for businesses in difficult times like these…”
Friday, September 21, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: business,
UK,
sponsor,
conference,
mid-market,
Festival of Business,
Telegraph,
high-growth,
high-growth companies
Demand will be high and places limited so make sure you’re on the attendee list for next month’s Telegraph Festival of Business, which is free to qualifying business delegates. Here’s a preview of the one-day event and details of how to register.
Friday, September 07, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Property & Construction
| Tags: growth,
acquisitions,
Story of the Deal,
buying a business,
management buy-out,
case study,
buying a company,
facilities management,
FSG,
MBO,
Facilities Services Group,
David Simons
A management buyout (MBO) is similar to any other acquisition, but while the owners and the managers may know each other, there can still be unforeseen obstacles. As part of our occasional ‘Story of the deal’ series, we go behind the steps of how Facilities Services Group achieved its management buyout on the path to growth, and offer some advice for others going through the process.
Tuesday, September 04, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: tax,
UK,
advice,
expansion,
webinar,
CFC,
controlled foreign company,
overseas,
multinationals,
foreign finance company
Changes to the UK controlled foreign company (CFC) regime could affect every multinational group. Join us for a free September webinar in which our international tax experts will walk you through the new CFC rules and explain how companies can benefit from the changes. If your group has overseas subsidiaries, or is considering expanding abroad, this webinar is a must. Read on for details and how to attend…
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Media sector,
Technology sector,
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneur,
digital,
CEO,
insight,
advice,
video,
interview,
online,
social media,
marketing,
advertising,
leadership,
internet,
Elevate magazine,
YouTube,
social business,
viral,
Sarah Wood,
web
Sarah Wood started her first business aged 13; now 38, she is the Winner of the 2011 Fast Growth Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award. But you’ll know her better from her social media work, turning brand campaigns such as Compare the Market/Meerkat and Evian’s Roller Babies into viral hits. In true tech entrepreneur style, she sent her interview answers in via smartphone from the middle of a Cambridge conference…
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
Grant Thornton,
growth,
insight,
advice,
magazine,
comment,
subscribe,
interviews,
business leaders,
publications,
Elevate,
Elevate magazine
Growth – and innovative ways to find it – is a main theme in Grant Thornton’s latest edition of Elevate magazine. Here’s what you’ll find inside our ideas-packed summer 2012 issue, and details of how to join our mailing list.
Monday, June 11, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: business,
growth,
video,
culture,
decision,
The Day Everything Changed,
podcast,
Procter & Gamble,
Jim Stengel,
P&G,
ideals
When a business achieves dynamic growth, can it be traced back to a specific moment or turning point? In our new video podcast series, ‘The Day Everything Changed’, we ask senior figures in business for their experiences of what catalysed their company’s growth.
First up is Jim Stengel, former global marketing officer at Procter & Gamble (P&G), whose sales doubled during his time there.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Technology sector
| Tags: business,
growth,
talent,
social media,
Facebook,
tech,
Mark Henshaw,
company culture,
international growth,
social network,
Quora,
tactics,
Facebook IPO
Just ahead of Facebook’s potentially record-breaking IPO, some fascinating insights into the company’s phenomenal growth emerged on internet question-and-answer site Quora this week, as a former member of Facebook’s ‘Growth team’ shared his experience of the social network’s growth strategies.
Friday, April 13, 2012 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: Grant Thornton,
growth,
UK,
CEO,
insight,
video,
Top Track 250,
interviews,
CEOs,
business, entrepreneurs
“What are the critical factors that will unlock growth in the UK and create a more resilient economy in the long term?” That was the question we asked four senior business leaders whose companies have beaten the market to achieve impressive growth during the downturn. Here are the factors they view as essential to growth.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Retail sector
| Tags: business,
CEO,
insight,
advice,
interview,
leadership,
Elevate magazine,
stress,
Will King,
King of Shaves,
entrepreneur,
He went from redundancy in 1993 to razor-sharp entrepreneur after developing a shaving oil in his kitchen and founding the King of Shaves company. CEO Will King talks to Nick Huber about his pivotal career moment, leadership style, stress tactics and his next big ambition.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 | Posted by: Graham Brearley
Categories:
Business advice,
Economy,
Tax
| Tags: HMRC,
VAT,
Graham Brearley,
exemptions,
EU,
cash flow,
VAT accounting,
VAT advice,
cash,
VAT reclaim,
zero-rated,
returns
Being a prudent Yorkshireman, I was reviewing my personal finances the other day and noticed the considerable hike in energy prices. After deciding to make sure that the Brearley household is sufficiently insulated and draught-proofed, I got to thinking about why businesses don’t apply some similar financial safeguarding to ensure their hard-earned cash doesn’t escape through the cracks. For example…
Tuesday, November 01, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Media sector,
Technology sector,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: media,
report,
digital,
Twitter,
social media,
Facebook,
guide,
risk management,
risks,
guidance,
crisis,
PR,
reputation,
Alan Joyce,
Qantas,
monitoring,
Internet Intelligence
Qantas has been the talk of negative social media once again this weekend after CEO Alan Joyce took the unprecedented step of grounding all Qantas jets. Can firms prepare for a social media backlash? Yes – but they need to introduce some risk management strategies that address the modern world first.
Friday, October 21, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: pensions,
video,
Private Equity,
buying a business,
Pension scheme buy-out,
buyout,
Darren Mason,
final salary,
de-risking,
pension scheme,
employee pension schemes,
roundtable
Should buyout teams risk buying companies with a final salary pension scheme? What are the pitfalls they might face – and what are some of the solutions? Find out in our webcast…
Monday, October 17, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Economy,
Financing
| Tags: business,
Grant Thornton,
economy,
list,
financing,
sponsor,
Top Track 250,
Sunday Times,
league table,
Fast Track,
midmarket
Find out which mid-market companies are leading the UK out of recession, with the release of the Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 250 list, sponsored by Grant Thornton.
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