New Winners For A Post- Brexit Britain
Management Today|December/January 2016-17

As businesses deal with the impact of the UK’s decision to leave the EU, it’s all change at the top of Britain’s Most Admired Companies league table, with ARM becoming the first tech firm to take the number one spot.

New Winners For A Post- Brexit Britain

It’s entirely apt that the 2016 Britain’s Most Admired Company award is won by a business that was created in the year of BMAC’s birth – 1990. ARM (Advanced RISC Machines Ltd as it was then) came into existence 26 years ago as a tripartite venture between Acorn, Apple and VLSI. Its headquarters were a converted 18th-century barn in Swaffham Bulbeck, a village eight miles from the centre of Cambridge and success was not immediate. One of its early designs was the microchip used in Apple’s first handheld device the Newton – a resounding flop.

Undeterred and under the leadership of first Robin Saxby and then Warren East – now CEO of Rolls-Royce – the company grew steadily through the 90s and noughties. Its very particular expertise – the design of high-performance, low-power consumption microprocessors – was perfect for the age of battery-powered mobile technology, and helped it become the leading member of the Silicon Fen cluster.

It listed on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq in 1998. Eighty-six billion chips later things are going swimmingly as devices with ARM designs at their heart are touched daily by 80% of the global population.

ARM is a glittering jewel in the global technology sector. Its chips are used not only in nearly all the world’s smartphones and tablets but also in more prosaic washing machines and televisions. Now it is gearing up for the forthcoming Internet of Things revolution, which will see billions of ‘dumb’ articles from lampposts and pavements to doorbells and light switches hooked up to the internet. Its business model is famously different from larger rivals like Intel in that it specialises in design, licensing others to actually manufacture the chips.

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