CORNWALL AND ISLES OF SCILLY (CIOS) LEP
KEY SECTORS 
TOP 5 VISIBLE SCALEUPS BY EMPLOYEE GROWTH
GOONVEAN
Goonvean acts as a holding company for a range of businesses, including a clay manufacturer, a producer of PAT test labels, and a producer of wristbands.
SEASALT
Seasalt designs and manufactures clothing that it sells in its stores.
FRED CHAMPION
Fred Champion operates a groundworks contracting business.
WESTCOUNTRY
WestCountry trades and supplies fresh produces to both private and public sector customers.
MJL CONTRACTORS
MJL Contractors provides groundworks services to the construction industry.
TOP 5 VISIBLE SCALEUPS BY TURNOVER GROWTH
GOONVEAN
Goonvean acts as a holding company for a range of businesses, including a clay manufacturer, a producer of PAT test labels, and a producer of wristbands.
AUDIOTONIX
Audiotonix (formerly named Allen & Heath) designs and manufactures audio mixing devices for live-sound events, such as concerts and theatres. Following the acquisition of Calrec and DiGiCo, Allen & Heath was renamed after the new enterprise Audiotonix.
SEASALT
Seasalt designs and manufactures clothing that it sells in its stores.
WESTCOUNTRY
WestCountry trades and supplies fresh produces to both private and public sector customers.
TEAGLE
Teagle manufactures and sells agricultural machinery.
LOCAL LEP SCALEUP PROGRAMMES
The LEP has worked closely with the CIOS Growth and Skills Hubs to develop a stronger focus on support for scaleup and high-growth businesses. The Growth Hub now offers a tiered approach to help target businesses with high growth aspirations as well as link partner business support programmes to high growth/ scaleup businesses.
The CIOS Skills Hub can also work with them to help develop the workforce. The CIOS Growth Hub developed a highly successful ‘Growth Fest’ in late 2018 which bought together 350 businesses, partners and stakeholders in a day to focus on growth.
SCALEUP VIEWS:
The key barriers are access to markets, access to talent and infrastructure. They are looking for support through peer to peer networks and public sector funding for R&D and to a lesser extent through local universities and Growth Hubs.
Analysis by BVA BDRC from the Scaleup Survey 2018
TOP BARRIERS TO GROWTH:
Access to the talent you can hire who can do the jobs you have available
Access to markets and customers in the UK
Access to infrastructure/premises and broadband
WANT TO SEE MORE OF:
- Peer to peer networks
- Public sector funding for innovation and R&D (e.g. tax credits)
- Local universities and business schools e.g. access to their talent, facilities and R&D
WHAT’S NEXT/FUTURE PLANS: The LEP is planning to build on its scaleup focus through: Championing success stories – managing and building CIOS-specific Scaleup Communications, Linking and working with national growth programmes as well as external programmes such as Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses UK, Innovate UK , Developing a programme of strong peer-to-peer networking for scaleup businesses
These are programmes offered by the LEP and do not represent all the programmes offered to scaleups in the local area. These have not been evaluated or endorsed by the ScaleUp Institute for their impact and effectiveness. Data utilised at the top of this page is taken from the IDBR 2016. The confidentiality of all data held on the IDBR is protected by the National Statistics Code of Practice and associated Protocols and by specific legislation. In accordance with these requirements, data presented is rounded to prevent disclosure. Differences may exist in totals across tables due to disclosure methods used.
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