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Marc was editor of GrowthBusiness from 2006 to 2010. He specialised in writing about entrepreneurs, private equity and venture capital, mid-market M&A, small caps and high-growth businesses.

Entrepreneurs

Peter Cullum: King of finance

Peter Cullum is shaking up the insurance sector by injecting a sense of fun, having boldly rejected the rituals of corporate life for the thrill of building his own business.

Exit Strategies

How to get rid of an investor

Many companies owe their success to the wisdom and cash injection of an outside investor, but what can you do if your shareholder is no longer the right backer for your business?

Banking

Business Banking Bonanza

Business banking is a fiercely competitive market these days, with financial institutions fighting it out for a share of the sector. As a result, high street banks now offer added-value services that were once the sole preserve of blue-chip clients to small and medium-sized enterprises.

Managing

Beware the boardroom divide – Has the Higgs report been counter-productive?

High-profile corporate scandals at the likes of Enron and Worldcom have led many non-executive directors to become increasingly focused on the policing of management teams to the detriment of strategic planning, according to new research from the Corporate Research Forum and the Performance and Reward Centre.

Growth Planning

Organising business travel

Is it best to tie up time and staff resources sorting out your own business travel, or call in the professionals? GrowthBusiness discovers out how to get the best deals within your budget.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Company Acquisitions made easy

Attractive company acquisition opportunities often appeal to ambitious growth businesses, but such deals need to be financed correctly. GrowthBusiness looks at various ways to get your sums right.

Entrepreneurs

the minimart: from Soho to SW11

When Tim Clyde and Ed Chilcott launched their own advertising business, they reckoned that success lay in rejecting everything they had learnt from some of the most successful agencies in the world. GrowthBusiness talks to two unlikely business rebels about their anti-advertising agency.

Human Resources

Watch out for thieving staff

The UK is one of the worst countries in Europe for stealing by employees, according to a report by the Centre for Retail Research. Among 25 European nations surveyed on employee theft, the UK came second behind Iceland.

Human Resources

Employ at your peril

UK and European legislation has ensured that the days of an entrepreneur or CEO being master of his own house with regard to employment issues has long gone.

Growth Planning

Can family businesses flourish?

The business world is littered with examples of relatives working together successfully, but how do family members avoid unfair favouritism while also preventing parental power struggles and keeping sibling rivalry out of the boardroom? GrowthBusiness talks to the leaders of growing family businesses to find out.

Entrepreneurs

Partnerships pay off for IFone

IFone, Morgan O’Rahilly’s mobile phone games developer and publisher, was recently crowned the second fastest-growing technology company in the UK.

PR and Marketing Strategy

Benefit from customer feedback

The customer is always right, apparently. So it follows that listening to your customers and finding out exactly what they want is a sure-fire way of improving your product or service and consequently boosting revenue. But sadly, it's not usually that simple.