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CELEBRATING THE COMPANIES & LEADERS THAT DRIVE EXCEPTIONAL GROWTH

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Unsurprisingly, here at Growth Index we talk about growth a lot. But growth isn’t just about profit- personal growth is key, too, and we’re always learning.  Here, we share with you what we’re learning each day about what works (and what doesn’t) in the UK business landscape, revealing insights from the experts at Growth Index.

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Interview

Activate Group: A hobby that very quickly grew and grew

Mark Wilcox lasted just two weeks in retirement before he got the idea for Activate, a technology-led vehicle insurance and accident management company that now employs 750 and has annual sales of almost £200m.
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Interview

Cycle Pharma: Developing treatments to suit everyday life

Unlike many other pharma companies that focus their efforts on launching new treatments, Cycle’s aim is to improve drugs that already exist.
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Mansoor Hamayun
Interview

Bboxx: Ending energy poverty and creating a fairer and cleaner future for everyone

Recent years have seen a rise in purpose-led businesses, with missions going beyond making a profit. One of these businesses is Bboxx, a solar energy firm dedicated to ending energy poverty.
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Interview

Storal Learning: Striving for improvement in early years education

Founded in 2016, Storal Learning is a community of day nurseries born from a belief in the power of early years education. The company is growing steadily through acquisition: with five new sites in the last 12 months, it has
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Interview

Paysend: Boosting financial inclusion is a key mission

“I’m always making mistakes. But it’s about what you learn from those mistakes and how you take a business forward that matters,” says Ronnie Miller, a serial tech entrepreneur who is currently on his sixth business, Paysend.
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Article

Do you need a degree to become a high-growth CEO?

There’s a clear correlation between education and career success, which is why the vast majority of FTSE CEOs have a degree. The proportion among GX leaders is notably less, with over three in ten attending the famed university of life.
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Women in Business
blog

Why Growth Index CEOs are more diverse than FTSE CEOs

Sex discrimination has been banned in the workplace since at least 1975, so it’s a matter of great disappointment that today barely 5% of the UK’s public companies are run by women.
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Interview

Sosandar: We can be one of the UK’s biggest women’s fashion brands

Ali Hall and Julie Lavington ran a magazine before launching online fashion brand Sosandar. Thanks to their flair for marketing and focus on careful planning in the face of rapid change, the AIM-listed business is now among the UK’s fastest
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Article

Which sectors grew during Covid?

Not all of our fastest growing companies were rooted in science and technology. The fastest-growing sector among Growth Index companies was in fact Arts & Media.
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Article

Good growth: Business with purpose

Purpose has assumed a central place in business thinking over the past five years. Gone, at least, are the days when CEOs could comfortably defend Milton Friedman’s famous position that their business exists only to make a profit for its
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blog

Why growth matters

It’s not always popular to say you believe in growth. Environmental and social activists have rightly called into question the desirability of pursuing economic growth at all costs, while others have pointed out that raising GDP is a poor policy
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When will we see levelling up?
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When will we see levelling up?

The premise behind the government’s levelling up agenda is that, for far too long, economic opportunity and prosperity have been concentrated in London and the South East, leaving other regions to languish.
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Anglo-Iranian entrepreneur Ali Parsa
Interview

Babylon Health: Scratching the surface of a $10tn industry

Babylon, which was founded in 2013 by Anglo-Iranian entrepreneur Ali Parsa, now has a presence in 15 countries. It helped a patient every six seconds in 2021, and is one of the world’s fastest-growing digital healthcare firms.
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Panni Morshedi, Beauty Pie’s chief operating officer.
Interview

Beauty Pie: The pandemic forced us to grow quickly

Beauty Pie, the online beauty membership service founded by the serial entrepreneur behind Soap & Glory and FitFlop, saw turnover increase 140% during the Covid-19 pandemic as Britons quickly adapted to shopping online for makeup and skin products.
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Methodology
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Methodology

Companies are ranked by compound annual growth of revenue over two years. To be included, companies must be registered in the UK – however, their ultimate holding company may be offshore.
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Interview

Interview – Jeremy Annis

The company, which helps governments and organisations automate the detection and investigation of threats from criminal activity such as money laundering, has been on a growth spurt since raising £28m in  September 2020 in a funding round led by US-based
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Conversation

A conversation with…​Susie Ma

What started as a tiny market stall business in 2004, when 15-year-old entrepreneur Susie Ma wanted to help her mum with the bills, has grown to become a multimillion-pound skincare brand.
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Profile

Winner Profile – The Ralph

Shailen Jasani's veterinary referral  hospital, The Ralph, focuses on three key elements - core values, culture and mission - which have helped propel it to become Britain's fastest-growing company over the past two years.
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Article

Why Growth Matters

For most businesses, ‘growth’ is a default part of their strategy. But what do we mean by ‘growth’, and how do we grow sustainably in a model rooted in enlightened self-interest which we can all believe in?
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Article

Growth Stories

Learning from the best is the fast-track to accelerated growth in your own business. We speak to the innovators and business leaders listed in Growth Index to hear how they achieved such rapid growth, and what lessons can be learned.
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Article

Good Growth

Business is no longer about simply making a profit for shareholders. We examine what the Growth Index reveals about the pursuit of deeper social or environmental missions reverberating across the business world, with people putting money where their mouth is.
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Article

Leadership Lessons

What do a veterinary hospital, cybersecurity specialist, brewer and building company have in common? You can find out in the leadership lessons breakdown, in which we highlight some of the best leadership success stories from Growth Index.
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