LOCAL AREA SUMARY:

Liverpool City Region

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

Bamboo Lettings
Bamboo Lettings provides estate agency services.

Castlerock Recruitment Group
Castlerock Recruitment Group is a healthcare recruitment business that provides permanent and temporary staff to clients that include the Ministry of Defence (MOD), NHS, HM Prisons and private sector companies.

Langtree Group
Langtree Group operates as a property development, investment, and management company.

Mast Group
Mast Group manufactures and supplies a range of diagnostic products.

Joloda Hyrdaroll
Joloda Hyrdaroll manufactures and installs manual and automatic truck-loading systems suitable for the air-cargo, newsprint and distribution industries.

Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Turnover Growth

Castlerock Recruitment Group
Castlerock Recruitment Group is a healthcare recruitment business that provides permanent and temporary staff to clients that include the Ministry of Defence (MOD), NHS, HM Prisons and private sector companies.

St Helens Pharmacy Group
St Helens Pharmacy Group operates a number of pharmacies.

Peter Gilding
Peter Gilding imports and sells fresh produce.

Allied Pharmacies
Allied Pharmacies provides management services to partner pharmacies aiming to improve operating costs.

APJ Solicitors
APJ Solicitors operates a law firm, specialising in financial loss claims and mis-selling.

Local LEP ScaleUp Programmes

MBA Business Scale Up – now in its fourth year – is the first MBA programme focused on scaleups delivered by Liverpool John Moores University. With the support of four account managers the LCR High Growth Programme works with business leaders and connects them with suitable growth support. As part of the programme, the High Growth Innovation Fund provided match-funded grants worth £25k – £75k to businesses with plans for growth. The suite support from Gather continues to offer dedicated strategic support to help businesses through their scaling journey, including high-performance coaching, peer-to-peer learning and a bespoke consultancy plan to help them unlock sustainable growth. Scaleups developing clean and green products, services and processes can access research expertise and facilities, free expert workshops and business resources and funding opportunities through the Clean Growth UK programme.

Scaleup Views

The key barriers to growth are UK Markets & International Markets, Debt & Equity Finance and Talent / Leadership devlp / External support / Tax breaks / Public sector support. They are looking for support through Funding/support for innovation and R&Dand want easier acces to Growth Hubs and LEPs.

Top barriers to growth

  1. UK Markets & International Markets
  2. Debt & Equity Finance
  3. Talent / Leadership devlp / External support / Tax breaks / Public sector support

want TO SEE more of:

  • Funding/support for innovation and R&D
  • Growth Hubs and LEPs

Liverpool City Region is currently seeking to develop a new local Angel Network. In addition, it is developing a new tech accelerator project and Liverpool City’s Export Plan aims to increase its current exports total of £8.5bn in goods and services to meet the UK Government’s target of £11.8bn by 2030.