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Business Growth Seminar
April 2005

DLIB has developed a comprehensive Business Growth Seminar. The seminar is aimed at helping your business and senior personnel to understand the many options available that assist business growth and market share.

The DLIB Business Growth Seminar will be presented by world leading companies such as KPMG, Baker Tilly, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Grant Thornton. The focus of the seminar presentations is to help trading businesses maximise their potential and ambition.

Expected Seminar Results

Provide the regions SME sector with the BEST private sector consultancy and deliver knowledge transfer in the key areas of business growth.

Help companies realise their potential growth and raise ambitions.

Help companies put together business growth plans for expansion.

Raise the understanding of ‘serious’ private and public sector finance investment opportunities.

Provide legal and financial information on key issues surrounding business growth.

Interesting Facts

DLIB has completed a research and interview campaign in relation to second phase business growth and private investment within the regions SME sector. Some of the results are below:

• 52% of companies only had a business plan for their start-up and have not reviewed it since.
  
  
• 69% of companies did not have a strategic business plan or strategy to expand their company.
  
  
• 66% of companies said they believed they were not maximising their business growth opportunities.
  
  
• 72% of companies said professional guidance would help them realise their ambitions.
  
  
• 89% of companies said the public sector was not doing enough to develop established SME’s.
  
  
• 54% of companies said they didn’t fully understand debt finance.
  
  
• 76% of companies said they have no factual knowledge of the advantages or disadvantages of Private Equity Finance, Business Angel investment or Venture Capital Investment.
  

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