by Robert Johnson | Oct 12, 2023 | Insights
Written by James Bailey, Partner For many managers, acquisition is a route to future business growth. Although an acquisition should help achieve growth, the question you should also ask yourself is “Will the acquisition add long-term value to my business?”. In...
by Laurence Alexander | Nov 28, 2022 | Insights, Views
Written by James Bailey, Partner Acquisitions continue to shape the growth strategies of many businesses and can be a central route to new markets, products, resources or simply to grow profitability and turnover faster. Making a single acquisition can be a challenge...
by Robert Johnson | Nov 3, 2022 | Insights, Raising finance
Given the economic turmoil of the past few years, with a global pandemic, the war in Ukraine, inflation at a 30-year high, the energy crisis and the pound falling to a record low against the dollar, as a business owner, you would be forgiven for thinking that now may...
by Springboard CF | Jun 20, 2019 | Insights
There are many definitions of a non-executive director plenty of which are less than flattering… Having worked as a non-exec myself and sat alongside many serial non-exec chairmen and directors I struggle to see why any of these descriptions are anything other than...
by Springboard CF | Jun 8, 2019 | Insights
With over 4.8 million family businesses across the UK employing approximately 13.4 million people, their importance to the continued economic recovery and the UK’s long term growth prospects should not be underestimated. With this in mind, it’s concerning that over...
by Springboard CF | May 21, 2019 | Insights
This is a question we often find clients asking. For many business founders and entrepreneurs the step of recruiting a senior non customer facing individual represents a huge move. Our advice is almost always to get on; take the plunge and make that investment....
