Interviews of some of the UKs leading Entrepreneurs & small business owners
The ‘job interview from hell is back’ however, this year the show, which starts next Tuesday (May 10th) on BBC One, is a bit different, as rather than being rewarded with a job working directly for Lord Sugar the winner will run a business and receive a fifty per cent equity investment into a new business of up to £250,000. Here are the male candidates:
The ‘job interview from hell is back’ however, this year the show, which starts next Tuesday (May 10th) on BBC One, is a bit different, as rather than being rewarded with a job working directly for Lord Sugar the winner will run a business and receive a fifty per cent equity investment into a new business of up to £250,000. Here are the female candidates:
We spoke to Derrick Watson, director of financial recruitment specialists Watson Moore. With an impressive track record of placing outstanding Finance Directors into high growth, entrepreneurial companies Watson Moore has experienced exponential growth in recent years, with turnover now hitting £2.5 million.
We spent some time in Cornwall with Amanda Barlow, the MD of Spiezia Organics and found out who inspires her in business, what motivates her and why she thinks that Cornwall is one of the best places in the UK to base a business.
The UK charity CARE took their newly-appointed ambassador, entrepreneur and TV Dragon Deborah Meaden, to see how individuals in Cambodia are using loans provided to them by individuals in the UK through a new micro-lending website.
We caught up with Ken Primrose, head of growing process instrumentation company ITS, which started as an incubator company and now distributes its products and services all around the world.
Keith Bradley is CEO of HSF health plan, which provides health cash plans to hundreds of thousands of people. What makes HSF health plan unique is their corporate social responsibility policy to donate their profits to medical charities. They gave away £350,000 in 2010 and will be giving away £500,000 in 2011.
Charlie Walker is a 27-year-old millionaire entrepreneurial Yorkshireman. Just three years ago he set up an international recruitment consultancy in London, now turnover stands at £7 million with £1.6 million profits.
We spoke to John Greed, who started John Greed Jewellery, who has two stores in Lincoln as well as a rapidly growing online aspect to the business about what inspires him, and what advice he would give to others.
The UK’s leaders in technology came together to recognise and celebrate the industries most inspirational women as everywoman and CWT announced the winners of the inaugural 2011 CWT everywoman in Technology Awards, recognising successes of the UK’s most talented women working in IT.
Creditsafe, the business intelligence experts, has revealed that Katie Price AKA Jordan is the most searched female company director in the UK.
We caught up with Tatiana Karelina, who started Tatiana Hair Extensions two years ago and plans to expand globally next year to find out how has she done it, on what inspires her, and what advice she would give to others.
We caught up with Saf Ali, who set up Key Properties in 2006 as sideline to his glamorous career as a music exec. With recommendation breeding recommendation, Key Properties soon became a full time business and now boasts branches across the North West, impressive market share and an aggressive national expansion programme for 2011
We speak to Neil Hammerton, CEO of Natterbox, which aims to revolutionise the telecommunications industry with impactful ideas and bespoke Voice Anywhere solutions on what inspires him in business and on what he thinks it takes to drive your company to be the best that it can be.
The former Dragon James Caan, who made his money in recruitment before doing four series of the BBC show Dragons’ Den, has been critical of how business is portrayed on out TV screens.
