Entrepreneurial Advisory

Our background as directors in mid-corporate businesses means that we have first-hand knowledge of the issues that face growing businesses. We offer hands-on commercial and strategic involvement to mid corporate businesses, working with management teams to deliver sustainable improvements and accelerate growth in enterprise value.

Our clients typically have turnovers of up to £150m, and may find themselves anywhere on the performance curve from experiencing exponential growth to finding themselves stalled in their trajectory. All of them have the challenge of ensuring that their business is structured and positioned to gain the best advantage.

We provide advice and solutions in the following areas: retained advisory roles at board level; financial advisory role; competitive advantage strategies; performance management and reward structures; brand and strategic marketing plans; exit planning; resolution of shareholder issues; and strategic project work.

Latest blog posts

• TV at a turning point in Edinburgh

  Alex Connock, CEO, Ten Alps: Edinburgh – it’s architecturally optimised for ghost stories. But last week there were fewer of the ghouls that traditionally lurk outside the city’s annual TV Festival – the economy, the supposed death of quality, lowest common denominator TV, the threat from YouTube and Google, and potential radical change to the BBC.  In fact, for the compulsively pessimistic TV industry – it almost felt upbeat.

• Weaknesses and opportunities in UK retail

  Retailers desperately need to review or renew the way they do business in order to survive profound changes in the market and the economy – that was the finding of our recent survey of UK retail business models. But how? Here we’re republishing some of the advice from three retail experts and business analysts in the report.