Elevate - for business leaders
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
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, December 22, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
links,
blog,
best,
Elevate,
2011,
reads
Another chance to see our most popular business-related posts of 2011…
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Thursday, December 15, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
Grant Thornton,
magazine,
advice,
insight,
comment,
subscribe,
business leaders,
elevate,
Elevate magazine,
features
Grant Thornton’s Elevate magazine comes out but twice a year, and that’s why it’s packed with the latest thinking for and from UK business leaders. Here’s what you’ll find inside the latest issue and how to join our mailing list.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
links,
entrepreneur,
David Cameron,
my big decision,
podcasts,
EU,
interviews,
vodcasts,
veto,
My Big Decision, podcasts, business, decision, interviews, David Cameron, EU
In the week that Prime Minister David Cameron made the historic decision to veto a new European Union treaty, we review our blog interview series on the life-changing decisions made by world-famous leaders in business…
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Friday, September 16, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
Grant Thornton,
Manchester,
sponsor,
Luke Johnson,
conference,
fob,
event,
speech,
entrepreneurship,
Telegraph,
Festival of Business,
start-ups
Highlights from entrepreneur Luke Johnson’s afternoon address on entrepreneurship at the Telegraph’s Festival of Business today. Grant Thornton is a partner of the event – more coverage to follow…
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Thursday, July 07, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
Grant Thornton,
magazine,
advice,
insight,
comment,
subscribe,
business leaders,
Elevate,
publications,
interviews,
Elevate magazine
You’ve read the blog, now read the magazine. Grant Thornton’s summer issue of Elevate magazine for UK business leaders is here at last, featuring stories on empire building and succession, finance flow and China, as well as interviews with leading, innovative business thinkers. For a full preview of what’s inside and details of how to get hold of a copy, read on…
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: innovation,
business,
entrepreneurs,
women in business,
business models,
magazine,
management,
car industry,
franchise,
marketing,
advertising,
automotive,
elevate,
Elevate magazine,
psychology,
business drivers
Elevate magazine interviewed three business leaders who are using fresh approaches to drive their business forward – from measuring emotions and optimising serendipity to implementing a return to human switchboards.
Our next issue of Elevate, Grant Thornton’s magazine for business leaders is out shortly. Read on to register for your free copy.
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Thursday, April 07, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Technology sector
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
technology,
women in business,
marketing,
presentations,
tech,
negotiation,
e-marketing,
gamification,
SXSW,
games,
links, games, gamification, SXSW, entrepreneurs, tech, women in business, e-marketing, marketing, negotiation, presentation
What are the new trends that could benefit your business? We’ve picked up on a few on our internet travels and added them into our regular mix of business and entrepreneur-related must-reads.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
statistics,
research,
women in business,
CEO,
women,
IBR,
success,
boardroom,
board,
gender,
management,
equality,
database,
international business report,
senior management,
PHBs
Today marks the 100th International Women’s Day but it seems there’s still much to strive for when it comes to equality in business, as new Grant Thornton figures reveal the proportion of women in senior management has fallen back to 2004 levels.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Financing ,
Technology sector
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
capital gains tax,
technology,
CGT,
video,
financing,
internet,
mobile,
deal,
startups,
storage,
scale
Technology is getting exciting again. Oscar Jazdowski, UK Head of Origination for Silicon Valley Bank, reviews the sector that is becoming both essential to and pervasive in modern life.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Tax
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
capital gains tax,
CGT,
buying a company,
loan notes,
QCBs,
corporate bonds,
deferred payment,
non-QCBs,
entrepreneurs' relief
With cash in scarce supply, loan notes provided an excellent method of deferring the cost of buying a company. But recent changes in tax laws mean that they are now less appealing and holders of existing loan notes are likely to be in for a nasty surprise, says Senior Tax Manager Nadine Elliott.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Tax
| Tags: tax,
entrepreneurs,
investment,
capital gains tax,
CGT,
relief,
wealth,
EIS,
partnership,
Craig Kemsley,
creation,
Enterprise Investment Scheme,
ER,
Entrepreneurs’ Relief
A summary of recent tax changes affecting UK entrepreneurs – and the opportunities they afford for wealth creation –
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
links,
blog,
best,
2010,
Elevate
Our top 10 posts of the year, reflecting the interests and concerns of the entrepreneurs and business leaders in the UK mid-market.
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Monday, December 06, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
risk,
retail,
Luke Johnson,
My Big Decision,
food,
franchise,
Pizza Express,
takeover,
restaurant
Like many serial entrepreneurs, Luke Johnson believes in getting off your behind, facing down the risks and rising to a challenge. Never more so than in 1992, when he was living on an overdraft in order to help finance a reverse takeover of Pizza Express. It was a transformational moment, which he relives here as the latest subject of Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision series.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
My big decision,
Economy
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
networks,
Luke Johnson,
My Big Decision,
mentors,
forums,
startups,
community,
Pizza Express,
groups,
clubs,
support
Here on Elevate blog, we write for and about those dynamic entrepreneurs and business leaders who have already ‘made it’ and are heading up successful companies, many in the corporate mid-market. But our next My Big Decision interviewee has got us thinking about how these CEOs started out and how a new wave of entrepreneur clubs and support networks is supporting British enterprise.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
BBC,
Glasgow,
Manchester,
Media City,
Pacific Quay,
TV formats,
Monkey Tennis
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Thursday, July 15, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
My Big Decision,
marketing,
customers,
crisis,
Seth Godin,
clients,
fired
Seth Godin has the top-ranked
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision
| Tags: innovation,
entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
My Big Decision,
marketing,
brand,
Seth Godin,
action figure,
purple cow,
doll
We’re pleased to announce that our next My Big Decision interviewee will be the world-famous marketer and blogger, Seth Godin – coming shortly on Elevate. Interspersed with him talking about a critical decision he has made, however, are glimpses of the Kewpie Doll and figures collection he keeps in his office - ending on shot of a Seth Godin ‘Mini-Me’. Yes, it seems the man has his own action figure! Here’s the story of the doll…
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
links,
CEO,
blog,
list,
Enterprise 2.0,
chief executive,
blogging
Bosses who blog are few and far between, but do it well and it can reap the rewards for your business. So for the toe-dippers out there, we’ll be looking at 10 chief executives who blog and look at their different approaches …
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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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