And we would scale each of those digital services into growth businesses.

"Technology has been a growth business for 40 years," he said.

It is a growth business with plenty of room to grow.

Consulting - the job of telling others what to do, rather than doing it yourself - has been the big growth business for three decades.

Such litigation is a growth business these days, as more and more claims are brought.

In the mid-1980's, when energy was a growth business, this city close to oil fields and refineries expanded.

"As we've already told the financial community, the Internet is not an add-on; it's a major giant new growth business."

Over the last five or six years, the companies that have been added are leading firms in growth businesses.

They invest £30,000 to £500,000 into early stage high growth businesses run by outstanding entrepreneurs.

Perhaps most of all, bakeries are not a growth business.