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News Release from: Cranfield School of Management
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 September 2005
Better growth for business through
programme
Following a record 2005, the Business Growth and Development Programme at Cranfield School of Management is on the hunt for more ambitious owner-managers keen to grow their business.
Following a record 2005, the Business Growth and Development Programme at Cranfield School of Management is on the hunt for more ambitious owner-managers keen to grow their business and develop themselves in 2006 "In 2005 we doubled the number of participants on BGP to just under ninety," says BGP Director Gerard Burke
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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SME confidence reflected in course attendance
Confidence among SME owner-managers is high, with almost 50 joining Cranfield School of Management's Business Growth and Development Programme during September 2006.
"Businesses who take part grow faster than their peers and grow faster after the programme than they did before." Some 700 talented owner-managers have passed through BGP since 1988.
Some of their businesses are becoming household names and there are strong connections to the local area.
Award-winning Cobra Beer, whose boss Karan Bilimoria attended BGP in 1998, is brewed in Bedford.
Hotel Chocolat, the UK's biggest chocolate gifts specialist, recently opened its newest outlet in central Milton Keynes.
And Bedford-based Pacific Direct hit the headlines at the start of the year when founder Lara Morgan took her entire staff to Barbados, to celebrate passing the £1m profit mark! Pacific Direct has more than trebled sales and profits since Lara attended BGP in 1999.
Says Lara of BGP: "The programme was worth every penny and I'm no longer flying by the seat of my pants!" "We want to bring BGP to the attention of all ambitious owner-managers who are based locally," explains Gerard Burke.
"This is the UK's biggest, most successful and longest-running programme dedicated to growing small businesses, it's on their doorstep and it works! Recent economic projections predict that this area will be the fastest-growing region of the UK in the next ten years, and we need even more local champions who are ready to step up to the challenge." The next Business Growth Programme begins in January 2006.
Right now you can register to attend a free breakfast event at Cranfield, on either 6th October or 8th November, to learn more about the programme and meet past participants like Lara.
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