Elevate - for business leaders
Wednesday, July 07, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
CEO,
blog,
David Cameron,
risks,
marketing,
leadership,
chief executive,
blogging,
Enterprise 2.0,
With entrepreneurship firmly back on the agenda, according to Prime Minister David Cameron, and Enterprise 2.0 seeing companies turning to social software to boost business, we ask: is it time to revisit the CEO blog?
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Environment
| Tags: business,
links,
India,
property,
China,
emerging markets,
magazine,
non-executive director,
social media,
yachts,
fund management,
Elevate,
rethink
Hot off the press and with a theme of The Big Rethink is Elevate Issue 3. We’ll be picking out some of the features here on the Elevate blog, but why wait – you can
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Monday, June 28, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy,
Tax
| Tags: media,
property,
capital gains tax,
technology,
CGT,
VAT,
reaction,
George Osborne,
Budget,
public sector,
construction,
IR35,
local government,
capital investment,
bank levy,
Budget2010
Pain today, profit tomorrow? That seemed to be the overall aim of George Osborne’s first Budget. But find out what Grant Thornton’s experts really thought as we round up the partners’ responses on Budget changes and how they affect the construction, technology, property, media and other sectors…
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Thursday, June 17, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy,
Tax
| Tags: Francesca Lagerberg,
advice,
analysis,
George Osborne,
Budget,
Stephen Gifford,
webinar,
Clive Fathers,
Rebecca Pritchard,
Emergency Budget
We’re inviting you to a special live and interactive Budget webinar on Thursday 24 June at 4pm to find out what the new Government’s first Budget means for you.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector,
Technology sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
recession,
economy,
BBC,
George Osborne,
trends,
funding,
public sector,
future,
creative industries,
Tina Brown,
freelance,
profit analysis,
gigonomics
In a recession, everyone, and every company, has to become a freelance hustler, says Alex Connock, chief executive of
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Infographic,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
recession,
finance,
research,
infographic,
strategy,
business models,
success,
competition,
Economist,
new business models,
benchmark
Want to benchmark your likely business success post-recession? Grant Thornton’s latest infographic is a complacency-busting chart of the six different types of business model behaviour shown by UK companies in the past 18 months.
See which are positive and negative behaviours, and discover if your company is stuck in a recession rut or positioning itself well for the upturn.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy,
Tax
| Tags: tax planning,
capital gains tax,
CGT,
pensions,
VAT,
budget,
NIC,
tax avoidance,
corporation tax,
National Insurance Contribution
Should companies be preparing for the worst this Tuesday (22 June 2010)? Here’s what Francesca Lagerberg, Grant Thornton’s Head of Tax, thinks Chancellor George Osborne has in store in the emergency Budget…
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
finance,
strategy,
video
Watch our interviews with seven UK business leaders and finance specialists sharing their views on how the new government can help midmarket businesses finance their growth strategies. You can find out more about Grant Thornton’s viewpoint on our
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
| Tags: innovation,
links,
international,
growth,
business models,
expansion,
free,
employment,
productivity,
cool,
freemium
This month’s pick of the web for business leaders and entrepreneurs – with a focus on new business models and driving growth.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Financing
| Tags: finance,
awards,
M&A,
AIM,
corporate finance,
Simon Davies,
Stephen Baker,
Healthcare,
Takeover Code,
Rutland Partners,
AMTECH,
Housing 21,
Geoff Davies,
Primary Capital,
CeDo,
Katie Derham
Grant Thornton has added two more awards to its growing trophy cabinet: Accountancy Firm of the Year at the M&A Awards on 20 May 2010 and Accountant of the Year at the HealthInvestor Awards ceremony on 27 May 2010.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
economy,
finance,
research,
survey,
international,
strategy,
growth,
M&A,
data,
debt,
analysis,
funding,
recovery,
financial crisis,
mid-market,
cost-cutting,
lending
Grant Thornton’s latest research in conjunction with Mergermarket surveyed 150 CEOs and CFOs in the first quarter of 2010 on how and where the UK’s mid-market businesses are looking to fund present and future growth. The Financing Your Strategy report, released this week gives a broad overview of trends as well as data from specific sectors. We’ve highlighted the key findings here…
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Women in business
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
CEO,
My Big Decision,
Sahar Hashemi,
founder,
Coffee Republic
She’s the woman who plugged the caffeine cravings of a nation when, together with her brother, Bobby, she founded Coffee Republic in 1995. Now in Grant Thornton’s
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Financing ,
Retail sector
| Tags: business,
finance,
due diligence,
corporate finance,
Simon Davies,
hobbies,
disposal,
sale,
lead advisory,
deal,
entrepreneurship,
Warren Haskins,
HobbyCraft,
art and crafts,
Bridgepoint Capital
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Monday, May 10, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Women in business
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
tips,
corporate,
My Big Decision,
customers,
Bobby Hashemi,
Sahar Hashemi,
Pret a Manger,
Coffee Republic
Sahar Hashemi is the co-founder of Coffee Republic, one of the most powerful women in British business and author of new book for entrepreneurs, Switched On . She’s also the subject of Grant Thornton’s next
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Friday, April 30, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
management,
creative industries,
ideas,
dreams,
House of Lords,
zeitgeist,
NESTA,
profitability,
blame,
David Puttnam
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Thursday, April 29, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
investment,
report,
M&A,
recovery,
outsourcing,
money,
support services
The second report in Grant Thornton’s series looking at where the smart money is going in business was released this week. This time the focus is on the support services sector, which has already seen a strong recovery in the value of private equity investments in 2010.
Continue reading to download the free report…
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Friday, April 16, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector,
Women in business
| Tags: links,
women in business,
Twitter,
boardroom,
energy,
social media,
Facebook,
LinkedIn,
CEOs,
demographics,
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Digg,
Ford,
carbon emissions
Which business stories are getting the most hits on the web this month? Read on and discover Elevate blog’s pick of the links for big business – from benchmarking your chief exec’s salary to the high cost of leaving company PCs switched on, and more…
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: innovation,
business,
entrepreneurs,
recession,
finance,
research,
technology,
strategy,
business models,
New Business Models,
competition,
Economist,
board,
distribution,
revenue,
change
Nearly two-thirds of UK businesses are hamstrung by their own business models and unprepared for the recovery of the market. In a new report on business models, Grant Thornton presents the lie of the land – from the latest research on UK business model behaviour during the recession to a list of questions you can to bring to the boardroom table…
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: innovation,
business,
entrepreneurs,
recession,
finance,
research,
strategy,
business models,
New Business Models,
competition,
Economist,
board,
CEOs
Recently, Grant Thornton commissioned The Economist Intelligence Unit to survey over 450 UK executives on their business models and if/how they are planning to adapt over the next 18 months - you can download the report for free below. Then ask yourself three key questions about your business model and discover some simple ways to answer them…
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Financing ,
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
investment,
entrepreneur,
technology,
digital,
women in business,
CEO,
financing,
My Big Decision,
Julie Meyer,
Ariadne Capital,
First Tuesday,
backing,
dot com,
Dragon’s Den
Setting up a technology-oriented investment firm just six months after the dot com bubble burst may sound like risky business. But as entrepreneur and BBC Dragon Julie Meyer explains, in Grant Thornton’s
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