Growth Flag was created with a simple but powerful ambition: to help places make better decisions, faster, using the best possible insight.
For too long, those delivering business support and shaping economic interventions have relied on fragmented, historic data. This made it difficult to answer one of the most important questions in economic development: “Where should we focus next to have the greatest impact?”
Growth Flag changes that. It is a first-of-its-kind, real-time business intelligence platform designed to give policymakers, analysts and delivery teams a clearer, more proactive view of business growth, risk and opportunity.
Growth Flag has been developed by Red Flag Alert, a data intelligence platform, and GC Insight - part of the Growth Company, a social enterprise with 30+ years’ experience of delivering economic and business growth.
It brings together Red Flag Alert’s background in data insights, with the Growth Company’s expertise in delivering inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth of businesses.
Together, we bring over 60 years experience supporting businesses, people, and places. We built Growth Flag because we knew:
Our Journey
Growth Flag is designed to integrate multiple datasets and develop new metrics such as the Growth Score and RFA Rating. In 2023, Growth Flag launched at the 'Convention of the North' as a new, platform for policymakers, analysts and business support providers.
We launched the Growth Flag Annual Report (now known as Growth Outlook) bringing together insights on growth potential in the year ahead in every part of the UK.
Version 2 of our platform launches, bringing new analytical capabilities and access to even more data metrics.
Growth Flag+, our insights analysis service, is launched. Offering State of Growth Reports and additional sector and business insights, the service helps local and combined authorities, national governments, universities and more to understand more about their business base.
Growth Flag becomes part of GC Insight, a social enterprise research and evaluation consultancy within the Growth Company - enabling greater client support while continuing successful collaborations with Red Flag Alert.
Growth Flag becomes data partner to MC2 for the High Growth 50 - a publication spotlighting the most ambitious and growing mid-market businesses in the North of England. The report is launched at the London Stock Exchange in a special market close ceremony.
Growth Outlook (previously the Growth Flag Annual Report) is launched in Manchester, as well as a wider rebrand.
