Welcome to Gloucestershire’s 50 Leading Entrepreneurs 2019
Between them, they have helped generate millions of pounds for Gloucestershire, created thousands of jobs, and we hope – through telling just a little of their stories here – inspired many. These are the business people we are calling Gloucestershire’s 50 Leading Entrepreneurs 2019. It is a list on which we hope everyone, no
people, and special thanks must go to Alex Lyttle, of Tayntons Solicitors, Kieran O'Donoghue of HR Champions, Sam Holliday of the Federation of Small Businesses and especially Simon Ford, of Allstone Group. Without their help, we would never have arrived where we did. In the end, those with the longest
careers generally won out, as did those who had put something back into the county, as their success along the way has allowed them to. Also factored in was the number of jobs they have created and what they began their careers with. In many cases, it was simply an idea. Capital came later. Judging by what ended up on the cutting room floor, Gloucestershire need not worry for the future – it has scores of fresh-faced entrepreneurs already making their mark. But they are for another list.
matter how familiar they are with the county’s business landscape, will find someone they have not heard of before. And we stress, while it is numbered, it is in no particular order. “This is not the definitive 50 – and we know we are bound to have missed some truly extraordinary stories out there still waiting to be told – but we think, as our first list of this kind, it stands up really quite well indeed,” said Mark Owen, the editor of Punchline-Gloucester.com and managing director of Moose Marketing and PR.
Special thanks must also go to GFirst LEP, which has helped thousands of companies big and small since its inception, and which gave us a list of exciting prospects. We should also mention accountants and business experts Randall & Payne. We hope you will join with us in acknowledging the diversity of talent featured on the following pages. All of us here at Punchline take our hats off to those chosen for this edition’s special feature (again, please please remember the list is in no particular order.) We are conscious of the need for still more diversity within the list and that is where you can help. Please send us your suggestions and comments as we are already working on the next showcase. Email andy@moosemarketingandpr.co.uk l
“What we wanted were names of the most entrepreneurial business people from the county, a list which showed the diversity of the sectors alive and well within Gloucestershire.” Punchline went first to business people and organisations and asked them to recommend those who have impressed them with their entrepreneurial abilities in business, and we compiled our own list. Then we merged the two together, and that’s when we found we had a problem. That ‘shortlist’ numbered more than 130 business people. So we enlisted the help of a panel of business
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