Consolidation to help 2e2’s sales figures
2e2 chief executive Terry Burt wasn’t afraid to change the IT service provider’s strategy when he realised the company’s original tactics were no longer achieving an optimal number of sales.
How touching. And how misguided.
Sure, we want to get kids into business. But a bunch of fawning parents buying salmonella cookies and hokey drawings? That’s no way to prepare young entrepreneurs for a life of entrepreneurship.
University spin-out secures funding
As the world moves to faster, more expensive optical-based networks, companies such as Conjunct will play a central role.
Hot 100 stars: mortgaged to the hilt
The entrepreneurial heavyweights in this year’s Hot 100 list aren’t afraid to take risks. Almost two thirds of the country’s fastest-growing companies were started by entrepreneurs using money from a second mortgage on their homes.
The Hot 100: A new breed of entrepreneur
Forget the “old school” sectors of manufacturing and construction. The superstars in this year’s Hot 100 list of the fastest growing companies in the UK are derivatives data providers, hedge fund managers, recruitment consultancies and support services firms.
Mentors teach entrepreneur to be a businesswoman
Barbara Scandrett didn’t receive any formal business training but instead learnt how to be a businesswoman from some “influential people” she met along the way.
Xero looks to take frustration out of accounting
Hamish Edwards’s company Xero wants to take the frustration out of accounting software and give entrepreneurs real-time access to financial information in a format they can understand.
Hot 100: financial businesses top UK fast-growth ranking
Thirteen companies from the financial services industry are among the UK’s fastest growing privately owned companies listed in the 2008 Real Business/LDC Hot 100 league table.
Boosting sales through business partnerships
Started in 2000 from a kitchen table in the suburbs of Melbourne, Boost Juice Bars now has outlets in more countries than any other smoothie chain. Now, Boost founder and MD Janine Allis, is partnering with Nestle to distribute bottled smoothies throughout the UK.
CFO watch – Andrew Griffith
Andrew Griffith has been appointed chief financial officer of British Sky Broadcasting Group.
Sibling entrepreneurs take on cosmetic surgery
Entrepreneurial brothers Surindar and Nick Dhandsa are carving out a niche in the cosmetic surgery business. After selling their nursing home chain for approximately £320m, the brothers opened London’s first purpose-built cosmetic surgery clinic.