Business Growth Programme (BGP) Brochure

A track record of success

Here is just a small list of companies we have helped to realise their dream.

Hotel Chocolat Angus Thirlwell, CEO, attended BGP with his company, known then as Chocolate Express. It now has over 100 stores in the UK and Ireland, four in United States and 22 in Japan. Soben Since 2017, Scott Smyth has grown Soben from a one man operation to a global organisation, working on some of the largest construction projects in the world. Soben now employs 250 people worldwide and is on course to reach 1000 by 2028.

Go Ape Since attending BGP, Tristram and Rebecca

Vox Group Brian Leach, CEO, has grown the business five-fold since attending BGP, to over £25 million revenue in 2022. Vox Group has been now acquired by Communisis parent company OSG. Courteenhall Since Johnny Wake attended BGP there has been a strong increase in revenue due to the expansion of the business. BGP helped define what sustainability meant to them, leading to industry-first soil carbon projects and a countryside stewardship programme with Natural England.

Mayhew have grown their business from just five sites in the UK in 2004 to 35 UK sites and a dozen more in the US today. It is now an employee-owned business. Adoptionplus As a res ult of BGP, Joanne Alper and seven business leaders and peers set up a funding circle to support Adoptionplus called Holding Hope, bringing in fund raising for the first time ever. They have also recruited their first finance manager.

Previous companies also include:

Thatchers Cider, JBW Group, Cobra Beer, Pooch & Mutt, Scudamores Punting - Cambridge, Usborne, Hugh Lowe Farms,

Livity, Aerospace 2000, Wisdon Hall, Copas Turkey, Magic Words, Ravensden plc, Fifosys

Cool Milk Trust, Foundocean, Novacroft, Sheild Medicare, Riviera Travel, ICS Communications, Foundocean.

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