LOCAL AREA SUMARY:

Sheffield 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

Converse Pharma Group
Converse Pharma Group is a wholesaler for pharmaceutical products, including over-the-counter products, generic drugs, and dressings.

Riverside Motors
Riverside Motors operates a car dealership.

CF Booth
CF Booth recycles scrap metals and manufactures copper alloys.

Benchmark Holdings
Benchmark Holdings runs a number of companies including FAI Farms and FAI Agriculture, specialising in manufacturing and researching technologies for the food production industry.

Horbury Group
Horbury Group is an interiors subcontractor specialising in drylining and partitioning, suspended ceilings, raised-access flooring, joinery and decoration among others.

Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Turnover Growth

Converse Pharma Group
Converse Pharma Group is a wholesaler for pharmaceutical products, including over-the-counter products, generic drugs, and dressings.

Horbury Group
Horbury Group is an interiors subcontractor specialising in drylining and partitioning, suspended ceilings, raised-access flooring, joinery and decoration among others.

Underwood
Underwood produces and supplies a range of meats to restaurants and caterers.

Spear & Jackson
Spear & Jackson manufactures tools, including spades, axes and measuring tapes, among others.

Riverside Motors
Riverside Motors operates a car dealership.

LOCAL LEP SCALEUP PROGRAMMES

Business Sheffield has recognised the need for tailored provision to support the needs of its burgeoning tech sector – an industry it had not previously focussed on. Tech Scale Up Advisors who have each run their own successful tech businesses, have been appointed to provide tailored support to tech sector founders. They offer 1:1 support and mentoring across a full range of business challenges from validation through to investment (and beyond). Each relationship differs in its subject and intensity, but broadly speaking the themes covered include a mix of NED and mentor type support including hard and soft skills and knowledge development, linking founders to high level contacts, opportunities and networks and providing input to strategy and direction.

A major focus of the programme is on accessing finance and the Advisors play a critical role in building relationships with investors and advising on investment deals as well as providing feedback on investment readiness work such as business plans, cashflow forecasts and pitch decks.

Scaleup Views

The key barriers to growth are Talent, Markets in the UK, Infrastructure and Leadership development. They are looking for support through local or national government, public sector funding for innovation/R&D, DIT, Innovate UK and LEPs/Growth Hubs.

Top barriers to growth

  • Talent
  • Markets in the UK
  • Infrastructure
  • Leadership development

want TO SEE more of:

  • Local or national government
  • Public sector funding for innovation/R&D
  • DIT
  • Innovate UK
  • LEPs/Growth Hubs

Look out for our developing scaleup plans in 2021