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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Britain lacks 'high-growth hero firms’, report finds

The United Kingdom is failing to generate the fast growth small businesses that could turbocharge the economy’s lacklustre level of productivity, a major new report claims today. 

According to the research from investment bank Goldman Sachs the UK has 400,000 more small companies than before the financial crash — a rise of around 50% — but fewer high growth “productivity hero” enterprises. 

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