Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Employee Growth

2 Sisters Food Group
2 Sisters Food Group produces and supplies supermarkets with a variety of meat and poultry, ready meals, biscuits and frozen food products.

Busy Bees Childcare
Busy Bees Childcare operates a number of nurseries.

The Best Connection
The Best Connection provides personnel supply services to the driving, logistics, retail and industrial sectors under it’s own umbrella SWS , which operates a number of recruitment and training companies.

MV Kelly
MV Kelly offers civil engineering and building services, specialising in groundworks and infrastructure.

GO Outdoors
GO Outdoors sells camping outdoor wear and equipment, both online and in-store.

Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Turnover Growth

Talis
Talis develops software for education providers, including Talis Aspire, a tool allowing academics to locate and manage learning resources.

DESIblitz
DESIblitz is an online British Asian lifestyle magazine.

SKAN
SKAN manufactures a wide range of glass and ceramic materials.

Aston Manor
Aston Manor operates a number of orchards and cider press facilities, that produce a variety of cider brands.

Furness Holdings
Furness Holdings operates as a holding company for several garage door manufacturers and retailers, including Wessex Doors and Chamberlain Doors .

Local LEP ScaleUp Programmes

In February 2021, the Aston Programme for Small Business Growth’s eighth cohort began, engaging more than 20 local businesses. It aims to help SMEs to grow by increasing turnover and creating jobs. It offers a combination of workshops and one-to-one support to help tackle business challenges along with networking with other business owners from the Midlands. The programme also supports participants to explore growth opportunities and to pitch growth strategies to finance experts.
In September, the new Aston Business Mentoring Programme launched. Designed in partnership with Aston Centre for Growth it aims to improve productivity and growth through peer-led mentoring. This replaces Mentoring for Growth which ended in May and helped a further 17 regional businesses this year, a total of 74 since its launch in 2018.The Creative ScaleUp Programme is currently due to finish in March 2022 with 94 companies having completed the business support element.