Corporate leaks: How to prevent and investigate if they occur

Drip, drip: Leaks within the corporate world can be costly on many fronts

Drip, drip: Leaks within the corporate world can be costly on many fronts

Business Tools

Bob Mecrate-Butcher, partner at Charles Russell, looks at how corporate leaks can first be prevented and then plugged when they do occur.

How to hire your first country manager

Human Resources

Peter Linas, international managing director of recruitment software provider Bullhorn, advises how to find and hire a successful country manager.

Securing business: Procurement can be a tricky but vital issue in growth

Securing business: Procurement can be a tricky but vital issue in growth

Procurement: do you sell around them, or with them?

Business Tools

David Freedman, associate director at behavioural change consultancy Huthwaite International, looks at how best to approach to issue of procurement – and the people that pull the strings.

How the skills of Manchester United's Alex Ferguson can be used to construct a winning business team

Leadership & Mentors

By looking at the skills and leadership qualities of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Simon Swan, co-founder of Hiring-Hub.com, looks at how this can be applied to the business world and the success of growth companies.

New digs: Fairline has completed a one year manufacturing change programme

New digs: Fairline has completed a one year manufacturing change programme

Fairline Boats plots course for calmer seas as Better Capital support brings return to profit

Business Finance

Despite being located in land-locked Northamptonshire, Fairline Boats is making steady progress and has used its turnaround investment from Better Capital to launch a new manufacturing facility. GrowthBusiness visits the yacht builder to find out more.

Investment for business growth video: Deciding when and how to take on backing

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Knowing the right time to take on an external investor was the question posed to four companies already backed by the Business Growth Fund.

Acquisition activity: Business Growth Fund firms now have the cash to start buying

Acquisition activity: Business Growth Fund firms now have the cash to start buying

Investment for business growth video: How acquisitions can accelerate growth

Merger & Acquisition

As part of an exclusive roundtable hosted by GrowthBusiness, we speak to four Business Growth Fund investments to see how M&A is working now capital is on the table.

The Business Growth Fund: Two years of operation in numbers

Business Finance

With two years having passed since the Business Growth Fund was backed by four of the UK's biggest high street banks, GrowthBusiness looks at what the firm has achieved.

Brand exposure: Broadbandchoices.co.uk has used its funding for TV advertising

Brand exposure: Broadbandchoices.co.uk has used its funding for TV advertising

Investment for business growth: Marketing and new hires for companies after backing

Marketing Strategies & Research

Getting the right message out to the market, and finding the right people to do this with, is a crucial step for business success. Having investment firepower is helping Business Growth Fund portfolio companies to do this, we find out more.

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