LOCAL AREA SUMARY:
Dorset
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
Charles Trent
Charles Trent provides vehicle recycling services.
Mploy
Mploy operates a recruitment agency that specialises in temporary roles.
Clipper Contracting
Clipper Contracting provides financial and accountancy services to temporary workers, including payroll and expense management.
Ford Civil Engineering
Ford Civil Engineering provides a range of civil engineering services for the residential sector such as foundation installation and drainage.
The Bowmill Group
The Bowmill Group operates a number of companies which offer aerospace engineering, metal treating and precision grinding services.
Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Turnover Growth
Richmond Group
Richmond Group lends to businesses, and builds proptech, edtech and fintech companies such as Amigo , which provides guarantor loans to customers previously turned away by conventional banks based on their credit scores.
Holton Homes
Holton Homes operates a property development company that specialises in building houses for first time buyers.
ADS
ADS supplies and distributes spare parts for the aviation industry, for both civil and military applications.
EIMS Global
EIMS Global operates a marketing agency and develops a range of marketing and sales software.
Ford Civil Engineering
Ford Civil Engineering provides a range of civil engineering services for the residential sector such as foundation installation and drainage.
Local LEP ScaleUp Programmes
Dorset Gateway provides an informed and bespoke service, free to any Dorset based businesses looking for help to source appropriate solutions to aid their growth and development. A newly launched One Health Accelerator (OHA) will also be working with a range of businesses and agencies to find commercial solutions aligned with challenges linked to the interrelation between human, animal and environmental health.
The Gateway also offers high potential/high growth businesses a fully-funded specialist bid writing support service. The service is primarily aimed at supporting organisations looking to apply for funding that will help to meet the priorities set-out in Dorset’s emerging Local Industrial Strategy and the UK’s Industrial Strategy Grand Challenge areas.
Scaleup Views
The key barriers to growth are access to talent, access to UK markets and access to infrastructure/premises and broadband. The key forms of support sought are funding for innovation and R&D, general business support and banks and other financial suppliers.
Top barriers to growth
- Access to talent
- Access to UK markets
- Access to infrastructure/premises and broadband
want TO SEE more of:
- Banks and other financial suppliers
- General business support from government
- British Business Bank
- Public sector funding for innovation and R&D
