Business Growth, Advice for Small Sized Business, How to Sell Your Business, Tips to Grow Your Business: Pembridge Partners

Commercialising Ideas ... Not

When someone flies you to speak at a conference, there's nothing like trashing the theme of the event in your first slide to help you win friends and influence people. Sensitive soul that I am, I took that risk this week in Auckland, when I told an audience that the whole concept of Commercialising Ideas is back to front, writes Hugh Mason.

FRONTLINE: M&A - the serial entrepreneur's story

"Merger is like a marriage. Honesty is all," says Sue Charles, veteran of five business start-ups and now Managing Partner at College Hill Life Sciences.

Pembridge Asia sold in management buy-out

Singapore - Pembridge Partners today announced that it had agreed the sale of its shares in Pembridge Asia Pte Ltd to that company's founder, Graham Lean. The business will trade independently of Pembridge under a new name: Media Development Asia Pte Ltd.

Following his relocation full time to Singapore in January, Pembridge Partner Hugh Mason continues to represent Pembridge Partners' growing interests across the South East Asia region.

Reading the tea leaves at WPP

When I read Sir Martin's latest announcement, I began to wonder if he'd lost his crystal balls. WPP's earnings are down 6.1%, not the 2% he predicted just a few months back, and he's not the only one to have missed the mark he set for himself. Publicis has also just reported worse-than-predicted results. What does it mean for the rest of us? asks Rose Lewis.

Oops – I'm a boss! The art of following through ...

Getting stuck into running a business, not sitting around talking about it, is part of the essence of entrepreneurship. But what about the folk who follow through on the Big Ideas to make them real, or those who never set out to lead in the first place? Pembridge is backing two new programmes that aim to consolidate the experience of “Accidental Leaders” and “Accidental Managers,” writes Hugh Mason.