Investment for business growth: Building out new products

ATM crime: BGF's investment has allowed Cennox to build an anti-theft product

ATM crime: BGF's investment has allowed Cennox to build an anti-theft product

The Business Growth Fund has now been around for two years. To find out how it is helping companies grow, we've been given exclusive access to four portfolio companies.

Corporate inertia in a challenging economy

Crunch time: Company boards will have some big decisions to make in 2013

Jon Hughes, head of Ernst & Young’s transaction advisory service practice, outlines how businesses can avoid the trap of ‘corporate inertia’.

Keeping control of your cash flow

Ian Lomas, head of sales at Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance, looks at how businesses should tackle the important issue of cash flow over Christmas.

Video: How Liverpool is empowering entrepreneurs and helping SMEs

City focus: The Royal Liver Building on the Pierhead in Liverpool

Nick Small, cabinet member for employment, enterprise and skills in Liverpool, on how the northern city is putting in place infrastructure to aid SMEs and business builders.

Overcoming obstacles to exporting

Exporting can open a business up to a wealth of new opportunities, but the obstacles to entry can seem great. Jennie Rich, operations manager for Open to Export at UK Trade & Investment, looks at what needs to be tackled to make it a success.

Video: British businesses on display at Dublin Web Summit 2012

Pitching time: UK firm The Currency Cloud makes its presentation

With some 250 start-up and early stage businesses exhibiting at the Dublin Web Summit, GrowthBusiness meets the UK contingent to find out what they are doing.

Industry reaction to George Osborne's shares for rights scheme

George Osborne's new business boosting initiative is giving workers the chance to become stakeholders in their employers. We speak to business leaders and advisors to find out their reaction to the legislation.

The importance of SMEs

David Cameron: 'I want to encourage businesses to create and innovate'

Simon Blagden, non-executive chairman at Fujitsu UK & Ireland, believes SMEs are vital for the future growth of the UK economy and explains why. 

Video: Company sale planning

With ever more company sales falling before the final hurdle, James Caan and Paul Herman look at what can be done to avoid the pitfalls.

The counter-intuitive approach

Kate Tojeiro, founder of leadership consultancy Xfusion

The obvious strategy to survive any downturn is consolidation. Kate Tojeiro, founder of leadership consultancy Xfusion, explains why taking a more progressive approach could be more lucrative.

Partnering with China

George Lossius, CEO of AIM-listed UK software and services business Publishing Technology, looks back at the company's expansion into China back in 2011 and explains how best to tackle the move.

The golden age of start-ups

Richard Prime, founder of Sonovate, looks at how barriers to entry have dropped for today's entrepreneurs and why simpler times were not necessarily better.

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Light touch regulation: Friend or foe? 

Business Regulations

Sophia Harrison, director of financial and professional services at Grayling, looks at how a new exchange platform out of Sweden could strike the right chord of regulation for SMEs.

Corporate leaks: How to prevent and investigate if they occur

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.

Vitesse Events

New Energy and Cleantech Awards 2013

Date: March 21, 2013
Venue: Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London

M&A Awards 2013

Date: June 27, 2013

Location: Millennium Mayfair, London

2013 Investor AllStars

Date: September 25, 2013

Location: The Natural History Museum, London

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Technology aimed at increasing fuel efficiency receives follow-on investment from Midven

Midven has invested in Warwickshire-based Aeristech for the second time in three years.

The Entrepreneur

Quality not quantity: David Barker was careful not to get clients from one sector

Diversifying the client base at launch and learning to say ‘No’ 

David Barker reflects on resisting the temptation to say 'Yes' to the first offer when he opened his data centre, and how choosing instead to diversify his client base at launch has enabled 4D Data Centres to maintain rapid growth in a recession.

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Research

Source of growth: There are 64 UK-listed cash shells holding £237.9 million

The rise of cash shells

New research from GrowthBusiness shows that the number of UK cash shells is climbing. We speak to new entrants to the market and those that have recently closed deals to find out what’s driving shells’ increasing popularity.