Elevate - for business leaders
Friday, July 29, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: finance,
research,
report,
survey,
growth,
strategy,
CEO,
data,
FD,
CFO,
analysis,
banking,
funding,
financing,
mid-market,
financial crisis,
refinancing,
David Ascott,
Jon Herbert
We spoke with Jon Herbert who is the Head of Acquisitions Finance at Lloyds Banking Group about the current financing environment. He shares his views from the banking perspective
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Friday, July 29, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: finance,
research,
report,
survey,
growth,
strategy,
CEO,
data,
FD,
CFO,
analysis,
banking,
funding,
financing,
FDs,
mid-market,
financial crisis,
refinancing,
David Ascott,
Stephen Welton
We spoke with Stephen Welton who is the Chief Executive of the Business Growth Fund about the role of Business Growth Fund and the current financing environment.
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Friday, July 29, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: finance,
research,
report,
survey,
growth,
strategy,
CEO,
data,
FD,
CFO,
analysis,
banking,
funding,
financing,
FDs,
mid-market,
financial crisis,
refinancing,
David Ascott
David Ascott discusses our latest research into the
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Friday, July 29, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: finance,
research,
report,
survey,
growth,
strategy,
CEO,
data,
FD,
CFO,
analysis,
banking,
funding,
financing,
FDs,
mid-market,
financial crisis,
refinancing,
David Ascott
Our latest survey looked at the
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Thursday, June 30, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: report,
recruitment,
banking,
funding,
financing,
public sector,
outsourcing,
Private Equity,
mid-market,
support services,
refinancing,
David Ascott,
facilities management,
Alex Worters
Sentiment in the support services sector is slowly and cautiously turning positive, led by some strongly performing niches, but there are areas within support services that are still feeling the pinch.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: finance,
research,
report,
survey,
growth,
strategy,
CEO,
data,
FD,
CFO,
analysis,
banking,
funding,
financing,
FDs,
mid-market,
financial crisis,
refinancing,
David Ascott
The engine room of the UK economy is gearing up to pump again with more than half of our surveyed CEOs and FDs expecting it to become easier to finance their business activities in the next 12 months. But with the funding taps mostly being turned on for larger, blue-chip companies, many are facing another year of frustration and/or creative growth strategies. Grant Thornton’s latest survey maps the financing needs and wants of the UK mid-market.
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Friday, January 14, 2011 | Posted by: Alex Connock
Categories:
Media sector,
Technology sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
media,
finance,
technology,
digital,
business models,
Ten Alps,
trends,
funding,
TV,
ITV,
rights,
Apple,
software,
apps,
App Store
The world is mutating into one enormous and non-hierarchical content supermarket, says the CEO of Ten Alps, Alex Connock. And that is having a transformational effect on TV business models and funding channels.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector,
Technology sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
recession,
media,
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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Thursday, May 13, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
finance,
economy,
research,
survey,
growth,
strategy,
international,
M&A,
data,
debt,
analysis,
funding,
recovery,
mid-market,
financial crisis,
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, December 17, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
tax,
media,
investment,
government,
Ten Alps,
AIM,
tax relief,
PBR,
funding,
EIS,
Pre-Budget Report,
advertising,
television,
policy,
Peter Mandelson,
X Factor,
film,
subsidies
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