By Nick Travis, partner at Smith & Williamson This article was originally published in Smith & Williamson’s Enterprise magazine, a thought leadership publication for entrepreneurs and growth companies. You can download this issue of Enterprise here. Fleeing Idi Amin’s reign of terror and being tied up as a suspected looter at just nine years old […]
Posted on 23rd July 2020 .
By Nick Travis, partner at Smith & Williamson This article was originally published in Smith & Williamson’s Enterprise magazine, a thought leadership publication for entrepreneurs and growth companies. You can download this issue of Enterprise here. The gaming industry is vast: bigger than the music and film industries combined, more popular than Instagram and Twitter. Yet the […]
Posted on 21st July 2020 .
By Nick Travis, partner at Smith & Williamson This article was originally published in Smith & Williamson’s Enterprise magazine, a thought leadership publication for entrepreneurs and growth companies. You can download this issue of Enterprise here. Peter Bance’s ‘lightbulb’ moment came after he had already set up and advised several energy businesses. He saw that leading investors […]
Posted on 16th July 2020 .
By Nick Murphy, head of charities investment management at Smith & Williamson This article was originally published in Smith & Williamson’s Enterprise magazine, a thought leadership publication for entrepreneurs and growth companies. You can download this issue of Enterprise here. There has been a subtle, but insistent shift in the way our investment clients look to allocate […]
Posted on 14th July 2020 .
By Nick Travis, partner at Smith & Williamson This article was originally published in Smith & Williamson’s Enterprise magazine, a thought leadership publication for entrepreneurs and growth companies. You can download this issue of Enterprise here. Mental health problems are a global epidemic. The American Psychiatric Association reports that 17m American adults had at least […]
Posted on 13th July 2020 .
By Nick Travis, partner at Smith & Williamson This article was originally published in Smith & Williamson’s Enterprise magazine, a thought leadership publication for entrepreneurs and growth companies. You can download this issue of Enterprise here. Jay Richards’ career as an entrepreneur began when an observant business studies teacher felt that his talent for trading computer parts […]
Posted on 13th July 2020 .
By Nick Travis, partner at Smith & Williamson This article was originally published in Smith & Williamson’s Enterprise magazine, a thought leadership publication for entrepreneurs and growth companies. You can download this issue of Enterprise here. The world has a food waste problem: up to half of the food produced globally is never eaten, equivalent to over […]
Posted on 13th July 2020 .
By Nick Travis, partner at Smith & Williamson This article was originally published in Smith & Williamson’s Enterprise magazine, a thought leadership publication for entrepreneurs and growth companies. You can download this issue of Enterprise here. Alex Stephany had emerged from a high-pressure technology start-up and was searching for a new project. Inspiration came from […]
Posted on 13th July 2020 .
Private equity and venture capital fundraising hit €109 billion, up 6% in 2019, and the highest total over a decade, according to new data from Invest Europe. In parallel, the total equity amount invested in European companies increased 10% year-on-year to €94 billion in 2019, the highest level on investment ever recorded. Invest Europe, the […]
Posted on 18th May 2020 .
In the first application for Hikrobot in the UK, global fashion brand, Superdry, is leveraging the flexibility of intelligent mini-robot carriers to transform order picking and put-away at its UK hub – just part of a phased roll-out of goods-to-person robotics that will boost productivity across its international network of multi-channel fulfilment centres. Superdry is […]
Posted on 18th May 2020 .
In the first edition of the High-Growth in London report, published back by Beauhurst in March of 2019, they noted the extent to which ‘London-based companies dominate the UKs high-growth scene’. Back then, 30% of ambitious UK companies had grown in the Capital, and had collectively secured 54% of all UK equity fundraising since 2011. […]
Posted on 18th May 2020 .
37 per cent of companies have made members of their IT staff redundant or placed them on furlough schemes, according to global research commissioned by Leonne International, the private equity firm. Out of 1,116 business decision makers from the UK, US, France and Germany surveyed by independent polling agency Censuswide, 418 admitted to removing IT staff since […]
Posted on 11th May 2020 .
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