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A great British renaissance has been taking place. From Aberdeen to the West Country, the zing is back in manufacturing. It’s about time this spectacular story was told.

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img 1 Richard Baister

Richard is a high-velocity entrepreneur. We featured him on the cover of Real Business magazine last year (you can read the full article on Richard and Velocity Drinks here).

Cool, energetic, and a Geordie to boot, Richard is the face of young, entrepreneurial Britain.

www.velocitydrinks.com

img 1 Ross Clark

Ross is a freelance journalist and columnist on The Spectator, The Times and the Sunday Telegraph.

He is the author of The Great Before, a satire on the anti-globalisation movement, and How to Label a Goat: The Silly Rules and Regulations that are Strangling Britain, published by Harriman House, about the lunacy of red tape.

He has been a regular contributor to Real Business magazine for several years. We like his acerbic, witty style: hope you do, too.

img 1 Margaret Heffernan

Margaret is a true all-rounder: an entrepreneur, CEO, writer and public speaker. She has run software and media firms in the UK and the US and currently sits on the boards of several small companies.

She blogs for The Huffington Post . Her two books, How She Does It and The Naked Truth, make for fabulous, challenging reading.

She has been a contributor to Real Business magazine for several years and is also co-chair of our very own First Women Awards. You can learn more about Margaret at her website.

img 1 Dan McGuire

Dan McGuire is the managing director of Broadbean Technology, the world’s fastest growing distributor of online job adverts. McGuire recently picked up the gong for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at our Growing Business Awards, wowing our judges with his gung-ho attitude and impressive sales stats.

Hear the voice of Britain's entrepreneurial youth and check out his news from the front line.

img 1 Guy Levine

Guy Levine started his first internet company when he was just 17 – and sold it for a six-figure sum the day after his 18th birthday. He sold his second company six months months later.

Today, the internet whizz is chief executive of search engine optimisation firm Web Marketing Advisor.

Guy believes in earning money while he sleeps – and reckons the internet is the way to do it.

www.webmarketingadvisor.com

img 1 Peter Knight

Peter is the founder and chairman of Phoenix plc, a creative agency located in a Victorian chapel in Leatherhead.

His background is in sales and marketing in the house building, estate agency and financial services sectors.

His book, HEMP - The Highly Effective Marketing Plan was published in 2004 and is now available in eleven languages. You can learn a few more quirky things about him at phoenixplc.com

img 1 Steve Leach

Meet Steve Leach, the original "big mouth" behind digital marketing agency Bigmouth media.

This Scottish entrepreneur has taken his firm from a first year turnover of £200,000 to £70m last year. And that's not all. He's also made it onto Real Business' Top Ten Sexiest Entrepreneurs...

Rest assured, he's not just a pretty face, check out his musings on life, the universe and everything.

img 1 Seb Bishop

Seb Bishop, the charming, chiselled-featured entrepreneur, pioneered pay-per-click advertising as we know it back in 2000 with his firm Espotting.

He’s now president of MIVA, one of the largest online advertising networks in the world – and one of the youngest presidents of a NASDAQ-listed company.

www.miva.com/uk

img 1 Dawn Gibbins

Hey, no words of ours can match Dawn’s own website. The Flowcrete founder is the most colourful woman in UK manufacturing. But we’re proud to say that Real Business magazine wrote about Dawn way before she became famous.

Then, we called her “the funky Gibbins". And she still is.

www.dawngibbins.com

img 1 Timpo

John Timpson is the chief executive of Timpson Ltd, the UK's leading chain of shoe repairers and key cutters. He and his son James currently preside over one of the most respected names in British retailing.

John has been a regular contributor to Real Business magazine for more than seven years. During that time, we have worked with him to publish two books - Dear James and Cobbled Together.

You can read more about them (and order them) at our store. And you can also visit www.timpson.co.uk to order some of his other books.

img 1 Clive Sutton

Clive has been in the motor trade for more than 25 years. He is CEO of Clive Sutton Premier Marques, one of the UK's leading independent car dealerships, based in St John's Wood, London, and has become a purveyor of "cars to the stars".

If you want to obtain the most desirable cars in the world, ­ or if you want a trenchant opinion about business, ­ Clive's your man.

www.clivesutton.co.uk

BUSINESS NEWS >>

Grass Roots entrepreneur receives an MBE for social responsibility

By Kate Pritchard - July 03, 2008 5:24pm GMT

David Evans set up Herfordshire-based performance improvement firm Grass Roots in the eighties. Today, he turns over a whopping £247m, employs over 1,000 people and has just become one of only three people in the country to receive an MBE for services to CSR.

Foresight invests in Silvigen

By Real Deals & Real Business - July 03, 2008 3:45pm GMT

Silvigen, a supplier of biomass fuels for use in the power industry, will use £1.75m from Foresight to finance the development of a processing plant in Goole, North Humberside.

Countdown to Human Capital Awards

By Catherine Woods - July 03, 2008 3:38pm GMT

At last year’s CBI/Real Business Human Capital Awards, prison administrator Vicky O’Dea was crowned the ‘people’s champion’.

Farmer focuses on versatile local product

By Catherine Woods - July 03, 2008 3:10pm GMT

Farmer Andy Fussel has turned a low-value crop into a product that appeals to those who want to lower their carbon footprint, the health conscious and even Michelin-star chefs.

Nine ways to grow your business through franchising

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - July 03, 2008 2:28pm GMT

Brian Duckett, MD of Howarth Franchising, gives his top tips on franchising your business.


BUSINESS COMMENT >>

Lee McQueen pulls a sickie

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - July 02, 2008 2:55pm GMT

First day on the job and Apprentice winner McQueen has been struck down by a flu-like virus.

Look out Boris! Sir Alan for Mayor?!

By Ally Papasodaro - June 27, 2008 4:10pm GMT

Sir Alan Sugar has been mooted as a possible labour candidate for Mayor of London, and the grizzly entrepreneur is up for the challenge.

The world's first Tibetan consumer brand?

By Matthew Rock - June 26, 2008 4:41pm GMT

Bizarre.

Elnaugh Vs. Paphitis. The Dragons are at war

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - June 26, 2008 2:45pm GMT

When Theo Paphitis suggested all women’s brains “turn to mush” when they get pregnant, fellow Dragon Rachel Elnaugh, entrepreneur and mother-of-five, breathed fire and brimstone.

I’m so excited. And I just can’t hide it.

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - June 25, 2008 11:09am GMT

Anyone else gearing up to go wild over the new domain name changes? No? Just think of the wit, variety and confusion it will bring to the world wide web.


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