Inspiring stories from UK freelancers and small business owners on how they run their business and balance life.
Nick Ogden, current holder of the National Business Awards Entrepreneur of the Year’ and founder of WorldPay and Voice Commerce Group, has now launched business.co.uk, a not-for-profit online portal to encourage UK entrepreneurs to setup and start running their own businesses.
Three years after he joined Dragons’ Den the recruitment entrepreneur James Caan, has announced that, with regret ‘I’m out.’
Simon Dolan, who was recently dubbed the ‘Twitter Dragon,’ was named UK Entrepreneur of the Year at the recent British Chambers of Commerce Chamber Awards 2010, beating competition from some of Britain’s most inspirational business personalities.
A young entrepreneur who was inspired by his ill grandfather to create something that would help keep dementia patients mentally active has become the winner of Britain’s biggest business competition.
Veuve Clicquot opens it’s Business Woman of the Year Award to find the next Anita Roddick or Martha Lane-Fox.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling and The Apprentice’s Lord Sugar have been voted as the most inspirational celebrities to encourage Britons to become their own boss.
The fashion etailer, A Suit That Fits has been awarded ‘Smaller Etailer of the Year’ at the Drapers
Awards 2010. As the Oscars of the fashion industry the winners of the 20th Anniversary
Drapers Awards were announced last night at Grosvenor House, London.
Self-made millionaire businesswoman Karen Darby is no longer involved in Call Britannia, the social enterprise she founded after an acrimonious battle for the business with her board and social investors.
New research by a leading UK-based accounting software company has revealed that well over three quarters of business owners wouldn’t accept a job with Lord Sugar for a salary of £100k.
Jessica Grosvenor won the award, which recognises and celebrates the achievements of the UK’s finest young entrepreneurs, in recognition of the success of her business, Freelance Training & Consultancy, which provides bespoke training to college students, teachers and nurses.
Vote for the best of the best in British business – the National Business Awards in partnership with Orange has announced the finalists of the Orange Leader of the Year award and thrown open the category to an online vote.
We ran a competition within our followers earlier on Twitter and using our Facebook group, to see who they thought was the the highest paid company director of a UK company was. The answer was far from obvious
Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin is embarking on a highly unusual challenge. He is setting out on a whirlwind 12-day world tour of Tokyo, Paris, London, New York and San Francisco to try to make his one-man entity Sebastien International the Smallest Multinational in the World.
The Cambridge graduate, Warren Bennett, has beaten off stiff competition from across the UK to be crowned ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ in the Nectar Business Small Business Awards judged by the entrepreneur and TV Dragon, James Caan.
Here is a rundown of the eight male contenders looking to prove themselves to Lord Sugar, and under the ever watchful eye of retired PR-guru Nick Hewer . The eight are all hoping to join Tim Campbell, Simon Ambrose and Lee McQueen as the previous male winners of the BBC1 business reality show coming back to our screens on October 6th. With some of them saying things like: “I was a sniper in the Royal Marines and I take that killer instinct across into business.” and “In business there’s no place for shirkers and no place for passengers. I insist that people who work for me deliver.” We can foresee a lot of butting of antlers over the sixteen week run!
