Category: This Is How I Run My Business

We talk to Rupert Clevely about the huge success the gastro pub chain Geronimo Inns, which he co-founded in 1995, is seeing and find out what his secret is when rivals are calling time every week.

We talk to David Barker founder of 4D Data Centres, a data centre and network operator based in Surrey.

In this article we take a look at Executype PA, run by Carol Charlton. Carol came up with the business concept after being made redundant. She spent the following months researching the market and started the business in May 2011.

TLC Ltd is run by Cheshire entrepreneur Liz Taylor, who organized her first event in 1985. Based in Manchester, but operating all over the UK and Europe, this highly respected events company organizes private parties and corporate events for a loyal client base including high profile celebrities and an impressive range of blue chip companies.

A South West marketing agency has been recognised amongst some of the biggest brands in the UK at the Women in Marketing awards.

This week we take a look at Linnet Technology, run by Jean Laughlin. Jean joined Linnet in 1996 when the business was a fledgling service company for UPS. Up until 2005 she worked to help transform the Company into a national operation.

Hilary Devey is the celebrity we’d most like business advice from, according to new research of UK business owners.

He is 24, has been in the SME game for a year with three businesses under his belt, and is just about to see his product launched by a major fashion chain. Welcome Dan Strang, one of the latest graduate entrepreneurs.

Women in the City has announced that Denise Jagger, a Partner at Eversheds LLP has won the coveted Women in the City Woman of Achievement Award for 2012.

As part of the Get Britain Trading campaign, the Forum of Private Business seeks stories from successful small firms to help inspire and guide other entrepreneurs toward growth.

One of Dame Marjorie Scardino’s first acts as chief executive of Pearson was to sell the company’s stash of Chateau Latour wine to Sotheby’s. It was a sign of things to come.

The Forum of Private Business wants thriving small firms to share their success stories for the Get Britain Trading campaign, aiming to provide valuable advice to other business owners.

The Forum of Private Business is looking for success stories from thriving small businesses to share through its Get Britain Trading campaign, aiming to inspire other entrepreneurs with their secrets of success.

A few years ago Arnold Sebutinde from Birmingham was unemployed and desperately unhappy. A few years on, and with the help of The Prince’s Trust, Arnold has managed to turn his life around and is the proud owner of his own portrait business.

A children’s outdoor adventure kit business launched by a mother of three is going global after catching the eye of Jonathan Turner, serial entrepreneur and chief executive of the Bayford Group, a third generation family business founded more than 90 years ago.