Investment for business growth: Springfield Healthcare Group
Growth targets: Graeme Lee and Springfield are using acquisitions to expand
Care home operator Springfield Healthcare Group has already begun to use its Business Growth Fund cash to get acquisitive. We find out how progress has been since the investment as part of an exclusive portfolio roundtable.
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Making the most of networking and exploiting customers contacts
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As part of a restructure, law firm Howard Kennedy has appointed partner Dov Katz as head of AIM within the firm’s capital markets group.
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Back in June 2012, ATM services business Cennox became the Business Growth Fund's (BGF) 10th investment – at which point the company had already developed technology which was being used by the London cycle scheme to prevent card skimming.
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Planet X Bikes plots expansion course ahead of 2014 Tour de France UK visit
As the UK is increasingly swept up in Bradley Wiggins mania, Sheffield-based Planet X Bikes is gearing up for rapid growth on the back of a new funding package.
Future funds: Cleantech has had to weather a number of different storms
Making money out of cleantech the venture capital way
Getting a healthy return from a cleantech investment has often been hard work – but for David Mott and his Oxford Capital Partners firm, it’s made them award winners.
Simon Clark: Striving for easier fundraising and greater Euro engagement
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GrowthBusiness talks to companies including Abundance Generation and Ecology Building Society about being recognised at the New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013.
Top gong: James McKenzie picks up his prize alongside award host Oliver Heath
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Photo gallery: New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013
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Future innovation: Human impact will necessitate cleantech development
Innovation, progress and leadership in new energy and cleantech
Alex Blackburne, editor of sustainable investment magazine Blue & Green Tomorrow, looks back at the New Energy & Cleantech Awards and forward to the future of sustainability.
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Comment & Analysis
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Research
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