Sportsmedia, started by flamboyent entrepreneur Jonny Gould, began by offering sponsored broadcasts to local radio stations; but diversification into new channels and topics has left its…
Former pig farmer Andrew Keeble is looking to replicate last year’s 70pc sales growth. It helps that the firm he runs with wife Debbie supplies premium…
We talk to Simon Woodroffe about life after Yo Sushi and the Dragons Den plus how he manages his business interests even during a financial downturn.
As one banking organisation celebrates the 350th anniversary of the cheque, another is deciding when to kill it off as a method of payment. On Monday,…
Rented office provider Regus is to giving start-up firms free use of its business centres. It’s all part of its £10m British Chambers of Commerce-backed Get…
The celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has blamed his bank after putting his restaurant chain into administration last Friday. Sixty staff lost their jobs after four…
The Government’s decision last month to restructure its investment in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest will see the creation of a £3billion fund…
With parts of England covered in another thick layer of snow we talked to Simon Devonshire from O2 and got his top ten tips on being…
Italian Toni Mascolo opened his first hairdressing salon with brother Gaetano in 1963. Today, the Toni & Guy chain has more than 230 salons in the…
Most people in business have the (usually misguided) notion that they can write well. After all, they learnt English at school, so there’s nothing to it,…
Disruption caused by the heavy snowfall could cost UK businesses more than £1.2bn, business groups have estimated. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said that 20%…
Over 80 per cent of UK small businesses see smarter use of communications technology as the lifeline to help beat the recession, according to a study…
“To be successful you need to know how to handle the difficult stuff. It’s easy to make money when the tide is rising. In the 1990s…
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. It is the art of making your website communicate well with search engines. It plays a crucial role in gaining…
Budding entrepreneurs and small businesses could inject over £5bn a year into the UK economy and meet the economic crisis head-on, thanks to Smarta.com – a…