Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link Shop-fitter Anthony Sherlock started out as a “man with a van”, doing odd jobs for a handful of customers in the Midlands. Now he runs Probuild Birmingham (9th), a £5m-turnover national building firm with 70 employees and a client list including […]
Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link With Digital Window (17th) ranking as the top company in this sector, it’s amusing to hear CEO Kevin Brown recall how he stumbled into the affiliate marketing industry: “We got Madonna fan sites to link to our booking page.” Today, the […]
It’s not only Katie Melua’s fans who are showing their appreciation for the 23 year-old singer songwriter. Her independent record label, Dramatico Entertainment, has seen sales grow 106 per cent to £23.7m, placing it in this year’s Hot 100 list of the country’s fastest growing companies.
Ian Collins has been appointed group finance director of EBTM, the online retailer and wholesaler of music-inspired fashion.
He may not be a finance director any more but, still, three cheers for Ian Livingston, the former FD of BT and now CEO-elect for the telecoms company.
Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link Doom-mongers who claim that the UK manufacturing industry is dead obviously haven’t heard about these champions of industry. Take father and son team Leonard and David Medlock. They have grown their engineering services firm Sitec Group (51st) using not a penny […]
China, India, Ireland, Germany. They’re all countries ICU Global, a videoconferencing provider, is targeting, according to founder and chief executive Stephen McKenzie.
Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link You’ve got to hand it to Tony Laurenson. He’s back in our Hot 100 for the second year running with Global Infusion Group (21st), the international catering firm he founded in 1991. The company has been busy over the past year, […]
Warwick Smith has been appointed group finance director of Landkom International.
Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link If you’re on the lookout for a boom sector, read on. By 2025, more than a third of the UK’s population will be over 55. Caring for the elderly is a sure-fire money-spinner. Phil Burgan is one entrepreneur who is tapping […]
John Hughes, founder and CEO of Cygnet Healthcare, says he is considered “eccentric” by competitors in the industry because of how he runs the business. But it’s certainly working: the company is now the UK’s second largest independent provider of acute psychiatric services and turns over £80m.
Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link Share Share via Pinterest LinkedIn Copy Link When the tour operator that Jason Fry worked for went bust, he struck out on his own to set up travel website Alpharooms (20th) in 1998. From working alone in a tiny “box room” in central Sheffield, Fry now employs 100 […]
