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Leslie was made Editor for Growth Company Investor magazine in 2000, then headed up the launch of Business XL magazine, and then became Editorial Director in 2007 for the online and print publication portfolio of Vitesse Media (until 2012). Among the titles of this group were: What Investment, Information Age, Growth Company Investor, Growthbusiness.co.uk, and smallbusiness.co.uk.

Financial Management

Business comebacks and turnarounds

Bringing a business back from the brink is a black art that requires ingenuity, guile, commercial courage and nerves of steel. GrowthBusiness highlights four of the best British business fightbacks of the past year.

Entrepreneurs

UK Manufacturing companies with exciting global prospects

Britain might not be the manufacturing behemoth it once was, but what it lacks in scale it certainly makes up for in expertise and innovation.

Entrepreneurs

Paul Swinney keeps things clean at Tristel

Paul Swinney took the radical decision to leave behind the safe waters of banking and dive into a disinfection products business. GrowthBusiness finds out why the charismatic CEO of Tristel is glad he took the plunge.

News

Betex in £7m AIM move

Online football betting specialist Betex, now raising £3 million on OFEX, plans to join AIM to attract another £7 million of investment and has already appointed broker Numis to assist.

Entrepreneurs

We asked entrepreneurs what they would do with £100,000

Most entrepreneurs are far too focused on their own businesses to contemplate what they’d like to do in the future. Undeterred, GrowthBusiness decided to ask a simple question: ‘What would you do with £100,000?’

News

Librarians look to AIM

If its £8.3 million fundraising goes according to plan, software venture Ex Libris will become the latest in an increasingly long line of Israeli ventures to launch onto AIM – although it is likely to be the only company on the market founded by librarians.

News

Pelikon raises £5m

Pelikon, a Cambridge-based company seeking to commercialise a range of plastic display technologies, has raised £5 million from a series of backers and will use the cash to prepare for an AIM launch anticipated some time next year.

News

£27m fund prepares for Liverpool launch

Alliance Fund Managers, operator of regional investor the Merseyside Special Investment Fund, is poised to launch a new £27 million investment vehicle on Tuesday 27 September.

News

Close backs IDIS MBO

IDIS, a Surrey-based importer and distributor of unlicensed pharmaceuticals to named patients, has completed a £22 million management buyout with the backing of Close Brothers Private Equity.

Entrepreneurs

Rory Stear: Power for good

Rory Stear regularly rubs shoulders with famous names and world leaders, but it's not for fun - he's on an energy-saving environmental crusade.

News

Persistent LG sets Polypipe free

US private equity house Castle Harlan has completed the £293 million acquisition of Doncaster-based plastic pipes manufacturer Polypipe in a deal facilitated by corporate finance boutique Livingstone Guarantee.

News

Carlyle secures Britax Childcare

Warwick-based specialised manufacturer Britax International has agreed to sell its childcare division to US private equity giant The Carlyle Group in a £230 million transaction.