Family Business Scale-Ups: Breaking Barriers to Growth

Family Business Scale-ups: Breaking Barriers to Growth

Contents Foreword

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Acknowledgments Executive summary

Definitions and methods

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Introduction

The UK family business landscape

Mid-market family businesses: True regional powerhouses

Mid-market family businesses industries

Mid-market firm size

Age of mid-market family businesses

Investment dynamics in mid-market family businesses

Summary

Scaling family businesses

Scaling family businesses – Industries

Scaling firm size

Age of scaling family businesses

Investment dynamics in scaling family businesses

Summary

The challenges to growing and scaling family businesses

Access to markets

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Access to talent and leadership capacity Accessing finance and growth capital

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Tax

Access to innovation

Summary

Insight piece: Family businesses: At the heart of the UK economy

Policy implications

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