Elevate - for business leaders
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,
pension scheme,
final salary,
de-risking,
employee pension schemes,
roundtable | Total Views: 1229
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…
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Friday, July 29, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: finance,
research,
survey,
report,
strategy,
growth,
data,
CEO,
FD,
CFO,
analysis,
funding,
banking,
financing,
FDs,
financial crisis,
mid-market,
refinancing,
David Ascott | Total Views: 1216
Our latest survey looked at the
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Thursday, December 01, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: economy,
AIM,
LSE,
FTSE,
London,
Philip Secrett,
investors,
UK economy,
capital markets,
stock market,
fund managers,
equity markets,
small caps,
smaller listed,
UK equities | Total Views: 1191
Starved of capital, the small company sector is facing a crisis that may have severe knock-on effects for the future health of the UK economy. A Grant Thornton survey of 50 leading UK fund managers and institutional investors, who between them control funds valued at £43 billion, highlighted the concerns in a new report released this week.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: business,
UK,
sponsor,
conference,
mid-market,
Telegraph,
Festival of Business,
high-growth companies | Total Views: 1157
The Telegraph’s Festival of Business takes place in Manchester this Friday (16 September) with Grant Thornton as corporate partner. Join us in celebrating 1,000 fast-growing, dynamic UK businesses and take advantage of an excellent range of business panels, discussions, keynotes and networking opportunities. Places are free but limited so be quick – details on how to register are at the end of this article.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
links,
blog,
best,
Elevate,
2011,
reads | Total Views: 1131
Another chance to see our most popular business-related posts of 2011…
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Thursday, January 05, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
tax,
international,
report,
growth,
financial,
trends,
Christmas,
guide,
expansion,
sustainability,
publications,
local government,
global economy,
capital markets,
gifts,
corporate governance,
FATCA | Total Views: 1024
Happy new year! As the UK returns to work, why not catch up on the news you missed? These recently released tax, financial and business reports cover everything from FATCA to food, global trends to tax on Christmas gifts.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
statistics,
report,
CEO,
IBR,
work-life balance,
international business report,
CEOs,
executive,
stress,
workplace,
holidays,
targets,
work-related | Total Views: 970
That’s the finding of Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR) , which surveyed 6,000 business leaders across the globe in the final quarter of 2011 to compare workplace stress levels, holidays taken and stress-busting solutions.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 | Posted by: Francesca Lagerberg
Categories:
Economy,
Tax
| Tags: business,
tax,
investment,
tax planning,
Francesca Lagerberg,
UK,
budget,
tax avoidance,
predictions,
GAAR,
patent box,
CFC,
competitive,
UK economy,
non-doms,
budget2012 | Total Views: 871
What will Chancellor George Osborne’s 21 March Budget hold for large corporates, privately held businesses (PHBs) and entrepreneurs? “A whole raft of measures around competitive UK,” says Francesca Lagerberg, Head of Tax at Grant Thornton. Here are five Budget predictions on how companies are likely to be affected.
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Friday, April 13, 2012 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: Grant Thornton,
growth,
UK,
CEO,
video,
insight,
Top Track 250,
interviews,
CEOs,
business, entrepreneurs | Total Views: 807
“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.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Economy
| Tags: business,
tax,
recession,
investment,
economy,
growth,
CEO,
budget,
Scott Barnes,
recovery,
Michael Izza,
economic growth,
BCM,
Business confidence monitor | Total Views: 656
A notable improvement in UK business confidence in the last three months suggests that the economy will come out of recession and return to growth in Q2 2012, according to the latest ICAEW/Grant Thornton UK Business Confidence Monitor (BCM) out today.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Retail sector
| Tags: business,
CEO,
advice,
insight,
interview,
leadership,
Elevate magazine,
stress,
Will King,
King of Shaves,
entrepreneur, | Total Views: 631
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.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
statistics,
investment,
research,
report,
growth,
M&A,
acquisitions,
financing,
food,
Private Equity,
beverage,
drink,
consolidation,
consumer,
F&B,
NPD,
growth drivers,
PE,
corporates | Total Views: 353
Where will growth come from over the next 12 months in F&B? Our survey of private equity houses and companies currently investing in the sector revealed three main areas…
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Media sector,
Technology sector
| Tags: Grant Thornton,
technology,
survey,
report,
video,
insight,
interview,
analysis,
trends,
tech,
voxpops,
ICT,
Phil Smith,
Martin Balaam,
TMC,
Tony Henderson | Total Views: 339
What does the future hold? We asked three technology business experts: if given £20 million to invest in keeping ahead of the tech market, where would they place their bets?
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Thursday, May 03, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Technology sector
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
Grant Thornton,
technology,
growth,
UK,
CEO,
insight,
tech,
defence,
MIRA,
The Times,
diversification | Total Views: 338
Forget the double-dip recession, take inspiration from these dynamos of British business. In conjunction with The Times, we’re profiling the market-defying growth stories of five of our most dynamic, mid-market clients. First up is Midlands engineering company, MIRA, which has diversified from motor industry beginnings into new markets in technology, defence and overseas.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Technology sector
| Tags: business,
growth,
talent,
social media,
Facebook,
tech,
Mark Henshaw,
Quora,
Facebook IPO,
social network,
company culture,
international growth,
tactics | Total Views: 328
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.
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Thursday, April 12, 2012 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Tax
| Tags: tax,
economy,
UK,
budget,
R&D,
Budget 2012,
Research & Development,
Tax Relief,
ATL,
Above the line | Total Views: 315
The knowledge economy is seen by many as vital to the UK and its recovery from difficult economic times, but what is being done by the government to stimulate investment in this important sector? As a member of the Treasury Consultative Committee, Chris Harrison takes a look at proposed changes to the schemes that provide tax relief to companies that undertake R&D.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: statistics,
investment,
research,
report,
growth,
M&A,
acquisitions,
financing,
food,
Private Equity,
transactions,
beverage,
drink,
consolidation,
consumer,
F&B,
NPD,
PE,
corporates | Total Views: 300
We asked senior representatives from private equity houses and companies currently investing in the food and beverage sector across the UK and Ireland for their views on where the smart money is going in F&B. Read the sector investment snapshot or download the full report below.
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Friday, March 23, 2012 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Economy,
Tax,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: budget,
budget2012,
summary,
tax, links | Total Views: 165
Get a fuller picture of Budget 2012 – or just cut to the relevant news affecting you – with our quick links.
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