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Family Business Scale-Ups: Breaking Barriers to Growth

This first-of-its-kind analysis from Family Business UK and the ScaleUp Institute shines a light on the critical importance of Britain's fast-growing, mid-sized family firms. It identifies their economic value, regional dispersal, their experience in accessing talent and finance and the challenges they face in growing to becoming businesses of scale.

Foreword		4
Acknowledgements		6
Executive summary		7
Definitions and methods		12
Introduction		14
The UK family business landscape		16
Mid-market family businesses		22
Industries		24
Firm size		26
Age		27
Investment dynamics		28
Summary		30
Scaling family businesses		32
Industries		34
Firm size		35
Age		36
Investment dynamics		37
Summary		39
Challenges to growing and scaling family businesses		40
Access to markets		46
Access to talent		51
Access to finance		58
Tax		60
Access to innovation		61
Summary		63
Insight: family businesses at the heart of the UK economy		64
Policy implications		72

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