Over the past five years, the number of people employed worldwide by UK companies that have been backed by private equity grew by 8% a year - faster than in FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies. Over 90% of companies in which private equity has invested say that without private equity their businesses would not exist or would have grown far less rapidly.
Over the last 5 years, sales in private equity-backed companies rose by 8% a year (compared to 6% in FTSE 100 companies and 5% in FTSE 250 companies). Over the same period, exports in companies backed by private equity increased by 10% a year, compared with a national growth rate of 4%.
Companies backed by private equity invest more than the national average. In the five years to 2006/7 investment in private equity-backed companies rose by 11% compared with a national increase of 3%.
Private equity-backed companies invest in R&D. In the five years to 2006/07, spending by private equity funded companies increased by 14% a year, compared with a national growth rate of 1%.
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