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
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.
Showbusiness faces the same issues as real business, but with products you’ve heard of and characters you couldn’t make up. Alex Connock, CEO of TV and education producer Ten Alps, says that makes it a good place to learn universal business lessons, and picks out some rules to rule by.
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.
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.
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 …
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?
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
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
How many women made the C-Suite last year? Which countries are currently topping the list for employing female senior-level female executives? Find out in
Grant Thornton’s latest infographic, which maps figures from 24 countries. On a shocking note, neither the UK nor the US even makes the top 20…
What are the most popular stories in business this month? From the London entrepreneurs who are stripping for charity to a mission to find the UK’s next big business, here’s what the Elevate team has been reading about this month…
How does the boss deal with knockbacks, big wins or the daily grind? In Grant Thornton’s Entrepreneur’s Diary series, we’ll be getting inside the heads of two chief execs. Last week, we heard from
