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An entrepreneur to celebrate in Global Entrepreneurship Week is Paul Barry-Walsh. With his flop of straight dark brown hair and faintly crumpled trousers, Barry-Walsh looks like a perennially youthful sports master at a minor public school.
Hiro Harjani founded his fashion retail business Aftershock in 1992. During the last 16 years, he’s built a £24m-turnover, international brand. But now he says it’s all over in the UK.
Do you have an autocratic management style Perhaps you favour a more laid back approach" Here are three leadership theories. Which one best suits you?
On Monday’s episode of Dragons’ Den, entrepreneur Richard Mire was told his Screen Machine product was a “ridiculously stupid, crazy idea”. But despite the Dragons’ venomous attack, Mire hasn’t been put off.
When Ros Adams and John Foster-Smith appeared on the last episode of Dragons’ Den, their idea for a novelty sheet was dismissed as “ridiculous”. But little did the Dragons know that the business pitch was, in fact, a red herring – designed to propel the two entrepreneurs into the limelight.
Jock Rumgay has been appointed finance director of Independent Media Support Group.
When Tim Perutz joined the family business, Nimlok was in poor shape. Within two years he’d taken the firm into profit, and cracked 55 countries worldwide.
Lincolnshire farmer Alex Albone set up Pipers Crisps in 2004. Today, he produces 75,000 bags a week – but downright refuses to supply major supermarkets. “As long as I live, I won’t sell to Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda or Waitrose.”
Graham Hetherington has been appointed chief financial officer of biopharmaceutical company Shire.
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