The Growth Company acquires ‘Winning Moves’
- Wednesday, April 5, 2023
- Posted By The Growth Company
Our consulting arm, GC Insight, has acquired ‘Winning Moves’ - one of the UK’s leading business support and research firms.
Winning Moves’ trusted team of research and evaluation experts create actionable insight using a broad range of research and experimentation methodologies tailored to their customers’ needs.
They partner with national and local government agencies, non-profit organisations and private entities to help changemakers make better decisions.
The acquisition bolsters our growing consulting offer, our wider business support offer and our mission to enable growth, create jobs and improve lives. It will also help to strengthen our infrastructure and growth across the UK.
Founded in 1995, Winning Moves offers two core services:
Mainly working for government, their client base includes domestic national departments (Department for Culture Media & Sport, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), local government (West Midlands Combined Authority, North East Local Enterprise Partnership), publicly funded organisations (Energy Saving Trust, Waste and Resources Action programme) as well as international organisations (the Australian government, the United Nations, and Enterprise Ireland).
The Growth Company established its consulting arm in 2021 following the acquisition of research and consulting company ekosgen.
Winning Moves and ekosgen will continue to trade both independently and, together with the Growth Company, under a new brand ‘GC Insight’ - offering clients their combined breadth of services from its pool of 40-plus consultants for research and advisory work.
The latest acquisition means ‘GC Insight’ will shortly have four office sites in Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and London.
Winning Moves CEO Adrian Davies has departed the company to pursue other business interests and Chief Operating Officer Debs Secker has been promoted to Managing Director.
Winning Move’s experienced team of 23, will be working closely with us to harness shared potential and unlock growth in research and analysis for clients engaged in economic development initiatives and performance improvement services for small-medium sized enterprises. Working together we’ll also be able to support businesses through the use of Winning Moves’ diagnostics.
Simon Hooton is Managing Director of GC Insight and will be co-ordinating the team’s growth and diversification. He joined the Growth Company in early 2022 after previously being a senior director at Regeneris Consulting.
Managing Director of GC Insight, Simon Hooton, said:
“This is the culmination of many months of work and builds on the Growth Company’s commitment to create a compelling commercial consulting offer with purpose.
“Winning Moves has a really strong reputation in its core markets and a very capable team of researchers and advisors, which we want to grow. The Growth Company is committed to supporting the Winning Moves team to realise its potential in our social enterprise model alongside the rest of our GC Insight team.
“Together, the Growth Company, ekosgen and Winning Moves aim to be a market leading team that helps economic development organisations and businesses improve their impact and more effectively demonstrate the benefits they generate.
“This investment allows us to deliver creative thinking on new solutions, service design for efficient delivery, technical help to secure approvals, advice on operational performance, and impact evaluation to measure value for money.”
Managing Director at Winning Moves, Debs Secker, said:
“We’re excited for the next chapter at Winning Moves. With a strong history of working collaboratively with the Growth Company, we’re confident that together we will be greater than the sum of our parts.”
For more information about Winning Moves, visit their website.
For more information about the newly created Growth Company brand - ‘GC Insight’, visit the website.