LOCAL AREA SUMARY:

Coventry and Warwickshire

Total number of scaleups

No. by employee growth

No. by turnover growth

No. by employee and turnover growth

Total employees

Total turnover

Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Employee Growth

Granemore Group
Granemore Group provides a range of civil engineering and project management services.

Stepnell
Stepnell provides building and civil engineering services for a wide range of sectors such as commercial, residential, solar and health.

The Cotswolds Distillery
The Cotswolds Distillery manufactures artisanal spirits.

Helping Hands
Helping Hands provides live in care services for clients with a variety of needs, including those with dementia, neurological conditions and learning disabilities.

Gallagher Finance
Gallagher Finance provides loans and financial services for SME’s.

Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Turnover Growth

Bespoke Facilities Management
Bespoke Facilities Management provides facilities and property management services, including maintenance, cleaning, and security.

Stepnell
Stepnell provides building and civil engineering services for a wide range of sectors such as commercial, residential, solar and health.

Vivarail
Vivarail designs and manufactures trains which can be converted from diesel to electric, or run as a hybrid on longer journeys on non-electrified tracks.

Kwalee
Kwalee develops and sells mobile and social network games.

Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance
Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance operates as a community of GP practices and professionals with a range of patient services.

Local LEP ScaleUp Programmes

The Growth Hub uses an account management approach to support businesses with the ambition, capability, capacity and opportunity to scale and works with them to overcome barriers to growth. The FinditinCW Portal helps scaleups to develop and realise business opportunities, including major regional infrastructure projects and HS2 as well as B2B opportunities through its Meet the Buyer events. In the past year opportunities worth more than £20 billion have been available to scaleups.
Coventry & Warwickshire has a well-developed system of peer-to-peer networks that includes experienced business mentors and leadership programmes. In addition, Made Smarter West Midlands, delivered in collaboration with Warwick Manufacturing Group and the Manufacturing Technology Centre, is supporting manufacturing businesses with digital tech adoption, including leadership and management training for cultural change necessary to scale.

Scaleup Views

The key barriers to growth are UK Markets & International Markets, Access to the talent you can hire and Debt & Equity Finance. They are looking for support through Funding/support for innovation and R&D and Support to access procurement contracts and want easier access to Banks and other financial suppliers.

Top barriers to growth

  1. UK Markets & International Markets
  2. Access to the talent you can hire
  3. Debt & Equity Finance

want TO SEE more of:

  • Funding/support for innovation and R&D
  • Support to access procurement contracts
  • Banks and other financial suppliers

The Growth Hub plans further support to help scaleups meet net zero targets. It is working in partnership with Coventry University and the University of Warwick to develop the region’s talent pipeline and to drive R&D, innovation and productivity and to develop further tailored support to the region’s scaleups.