{"id":41636,"date":"2018-05-22T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=41636"},"modified":"2018-05-22T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:30:28","slug":"report-reveals-construction-scale-ups-are-optimistic-about-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/report-reveals-construction-scale-ups-are-optimistic-about-brexit\/41636\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction &#038; Real Estate scale-ups optimistic about Brexit, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Almost half (42%) of the scale-up businesses in construction and real estate believe that the Government\u2019s approach to Brexit and international trade will benefit them, while 40% say it will have no impact at all, according to a new report<\/h2>\n<p>The new report titled <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/NMqwtN\">Dream bigger: The scale-up moment<\/a>, was created by <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/aNeH8h\">Smith &amp; Williamson<\/a>, the accountancy, tax and investment management group.<\/p>\n<p>Scale-ups drive significant economic growth, create a huge number of jobs and have been acknowledged as a potential solution to the UK\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/uk-could-save-15bn-every-year-by-lifting-construction-productivity\/40397\/\">productivity challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Relatively few businesses experience the scale-up moment \u2013 less than one in 40.\u00a0 To address this, Smith &amp; Williamson undertook the largest ever sentiment study of this crucial business community, interviewing 500 scale-ups and over 500 firms yet to achieve their scale-up moment, charting the secrets of their success to enable more SMEs to find their own route to growth.<\/p>\n<p>Just ten months before the UK is due to leave the EU, the findings suggest high growth businesses in construction and real estate are in a bullish mood with seven out of ten (69%) of those questioned planning to take on new staff to keep pace with growth. In addition, more than half (52%) report improved financial health among their trading partners.<\/p>\n<p>Scale-up businesses in construction and real estate are also optimistic about other areas of government policy agenda, with almost half (48%) believing they stand to benefit from the current<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-sector-gains-250m-under-industrial-strategy\/36739\/\"> infrastructure strategy<\/a> and 56% believing they will be positively impacted by the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/bmf-reports-apprenticeship-levy-success\/39262\/\">Apprenticeship Levy<\/a>, as opposed to mature real estate businesses who have largely seen it as a negative.<\/p>\n<h3>What sets UK scale-up businesses and their founders apart?<\/h3>\n<p>The study also considered what traits scale-up businesses and their founders share UK-wide. One key conclusion is that their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-today-articles\/why-technology-is-the-key-to-inspiring-the-industrys-next-generation\/41201\/\">attitude towards tech and innovation<\/a> is giving them an edge. This could explain why younger entrepreneurs, raised in a digital era, are flourishing, with 42% of scale-up founders aged 34 and under.<\/p>\n<p>Half (50%) of high-growth companies say technological advances have been critical to their growth, compared to just 18% of slower-growth firms.\u00a0 More than a third (34%) also believed that having an innovative business plan has been key to their success. This falls to a quarter (27%) among non-scale-ups, and to 21% among micro-companies, employing ten or fewer people.<\/p>\n<h3>Competitive, hungry, ready: the scale-up mindset<\/h3>\n<p>The research also shows that scale-ups display a greater sense of urgency than other businesses. Almost one in three (32%) reach their high-growth status in just three years, while eight in ten (84%) join the club within a decade of launching. After this, the chances of a business achieving consistent high growth fall significantly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/ECTBJb\">Jackie Oakes<\/a>, scale-up lead in the Real Estate group at Smith &amp; Williamson, said: \u201cIt\u2019s been fascinating to gain insight into how such successful companies think and feel. We have uncovered considerable differences between scale-ups and the rest of the business community, in both mentality and approach. But, 91% of businesses want to grow further, and I am convinced almost any of them can emulate scale-up business success &#8211; provided they have the right growth toolkit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolicy-makers must also play their part, by doing all they can to accommodate scale-ups and encourage their continued rate of high growth. 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