New business support network for UK entrepreneurs and start-up businesses
Entrepreneur Fraser Hay, founder of The Results Academy, says British start-up businesses must master online social networking to ensure success.
UK?s 30 top businesses run from home: 1 to 5
The office is dead! Long live homeworking! Real Business and Brother reveal the 30 firms spearheading Britain’s homeworking revolution.
Sir Ken Morrison: retail’s greatest entrepreneur?
Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link Step aside, Sir Stuart Rose. This week is a time for celebrating one of the greatest ever British retailers and entrepreneurs, Sir Ken Morrison. Sir Ken steps down this week after 56 years at the helm of a business that he […]
Entrepreneurs working from home: the pioneers
The UK’s best businesses run from home. New research out today from Real Business and Brother.
Angel network bites back at Darling
There are very few newsletters that drop into RB’s mailbox of a Monday afternoon and prompt an irreverent chuckle. Today is an exception.
“Supermarkets don’t get Indian food”, says top entrepreneur
"They think it’s all about stocking a few jars of Patak’s", says Tony Deep, founder of £108m East End Foods.
Franchises thrive in economic slowdown
Franchise entrepreneur Joseph Yussuf, founder of Mr Clutch, says the business franchise model is best suited to recession and economic slowdown.
The rise of Islamic Finance
With the industry growing at 15 per cent a year, Islamic finance is undergoing a revolution. As Humphrey Percy, CEO of the Bank of London and the Middle East points out: “In the last four years, no fewer than four Islamic finance institutions have emerged in the UK.”
How Mama Mio secured a superstar non-exec
Former Michelin star-winning restaurateur turned skincare entrepreneur Sian Sutherland on how she got Estee Lauder giant Bob Nielsen onto the board of her tiny business.
The UK entrepreneur who made Willy Wonka?s chocolate lake
Johnny Depp is the star of Tim Burton’s film Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, but Vickers Laboratory MD Julian Driver was the business brain.
Wanted: committed entrepreneurs to move to Cornwall
It’s not all sun, sand and surf if you relocate your business to Cornwall. Oh no, no no.
Why is Stuart Rose staying at M&S until 2011?
M&S chief executive Stuart Rose is to become executive chairman and extend his contract at the retail giant untll 2011. Why?