Business Development Advisers Ltd. : Quality Delivery by Recognised Experts

Business Development Advisers Ltd is a private Scottish management consultancy firm. We provide specialist support aimed at helping businesses in Scotland in a variety of areas from strategic concerns to every day issues. 

BDA's Directors Ian Russell, Allan Blackley, Ronnie McLaren and Steven Smith have been involved in business development for both the public and private sectors gaining a huge amount of experience in the process. All of the directors have considerable experience of managing and growing businesses and are serial entrepreneurs who have provided assistance for a wide range of businesses.  Each member of the board is passionate about business.

Our team of business advisers are employed for their skills and experience aimed at providing relevant and practical support to BDA clients, in particular small to medium sized businesses in start-up or development phase. Advisers are recruited on the basis that they are currently running their own, successful, small business and that they have personal experience of starting one or more businesses.  This ensures that the advisers can empathise with clients’ situations and provide relevant, detailed advice based on their own experiences.

Our private sector work covers a wide range of industries and business areas. Take a look at our Commercial Services section for more information.

As well as private sector work, most of our activities are made up of our public sector contracts. We provide the Business Gateway service for Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire in partnership with the 6 local authorities in the area.

Various other public sector bodies that we work with include Job Centre Plus who we partner with in providing the Training for Work programme on behalf of Skills Development Scotland. We also work with Scottish Enterprise acting as middle ground for high growth clients.

Our Enterprise Services section has more detail on the various projects and schemes that we are involved in.