LOCAL AREA SUMARY:

Tees Valley

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

Cleveland Cable Company
Cleveland Cable Company supplies a wide range of cables and cable-related accessories.

BMSL Group
BMSL Group provides recruitment services to businesses and employers in the construction, rail, building and engineering sectors.

JT Atkinson
JT Atkinson sells building materials including timber, roofing slates and heating equipment.

Camerons Brewery
Camerons Brewery operates a brewery.

Nifco UK
Nifco UK designs, manufactures and supplies industrial plastic fasteners, dampers and grab handles for automotive and electronic applications.

Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Turnover Growth

Lemon
Lemon operates a call centre designed to provide outsourced customer support services for its clients.Niramax
Niramax provides waste management services, specialising in disposing and recycling commercial, industrial and consumer waste.

BMSL Group
BMSL Group provides recruitment services to businesses and employers in the construction, rail, building and engineering sectors.

Applied Graphene Materials
Applied Graphene Materials, formerly trading as Durham Graphene Science, specialises in the synthesis of graphene. The company uses a scalable bottom-up approach to prepare graphene that is protected by a patent application.

Alexanders Motor Group
Alexanders Motor Group operates a number of car dealerships which sell new and used vehicles and offer maintenance and repair services.

Local LEP ScaleUp Programmes

A number of initiatives exist to support Tees Valley scaleups. Tees Valley Business is a one-stop shop for all business growth support and funding, including its own Growth Fund grant programmes which offer up 55% in support of eligible projects. It works with a range of local partners that offer support across a broad spectrum of areas from scale-up, start-up and funding and finance through to technical assistance with product development and innovation. It has also partnered with Digital Boost to help companies digitise their business. Teeside University has pioneered a Grow Tees Valley which starts with advisers working with ambitious businesses on a detailed business diagnostic and then sign-posting them to targeted support or referring them to a network of business support providers. A Growth Spark voucher scheme supports up to 50% of the cost If businesses come with a project in mind the advisers will assess its potential and draw up an action plan with the entrepreneur. Scaling businesses also have access to the Growth Associate Programme which lets them tap into the University’s graduates to deliver a pre-set work plan. They also have the added benefit of support from an industry expert or an academic from Teesside University for half a day per week and support of up to 50% of the project’s costs.

Scaleup Views

The key barriers to growth are Markets in the UK, Procurement/Supply chains and Markets internationally. They are looking for support through public sector funding for innovation/R&D, procurement contracts, Innovate UK, DIT and LEPs/Growth Hubs.

Top barriers to growth

  • Markets in the UK
  • Procurement/Supply chains
  • Markets internationally

want TO SEE more of:

  • Public sector funding for innovation/R&D
  • Procurement contracts
  • Innovate UK
  • DIT
  • LEPs/Growth Hubs

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