Category: This Is How I Run My Business

Here is a rundown of the eight female contenders looking to prove themselves to Lord Sugar, under the ever watchful eye of successful female business woman Karren Brady. The eight are all hoping to join Michelle Dewberry and Yasmina Siadatan as the previous female winners of the BBC1 business reality show, back to our screens on October 6th. With some of them saying things like: I’m a hyper-achiever. Everything I do is always a success.” and “If you get in my way, I’ll mow you down.” We think series 6 could well see some sparks flying!

Willie Walsh, the CEO of British Airways, was been announced as the new, and 44th, President of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) following his election at the membership organisations’ AGM.

Lord Sugar, has joined Duncan Bannatyne, Peter Jones and many other famous business leaders on the social networking site Twitter.

It isn’t often that we interview an entrepreneur so globally famous that they are known by just their first name, but Caprice talks to Paul Jones about what it is really like moving from the catwalk to the boardroom and why she makes every single decision herself in her business.

Jasper Carrott is set to land a second multi-million-pound windfall from his angel investment in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? quiz show, following a landmark US legal case.

How a man with a plan and a campervan revolutionised Britain’s damp proofing industry, John Stacey finds out.

He may be the cheeky Essex-boy chef turned entrepreneur estimated to be worth a cool £65million, but Jamie Oliver has now told how even he has become a victim of the credit crunch last year.

The director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Richard Lambert, has announced he is standing down.

Motivational speaker Kriss Akabusi inspired a new generation of business leaders who have started to meet in central London to take their future into their own hands and ride the recession together.

A recent report, conducted by YouGov, for the business advice website Yoodoo.biz asked UK business owners who they regard as British business role models and look to for inspiration. JK Rowling emerging as the nation’s favourite female business role model amongst women with Richard Branson holding his title as Briton’s favourite male business role model amongst men.

While the entrepreneurs are preparing the elevator pitches for their business ideas to hopefully get essential funding and mentoring next week an increasingly acrimonious bust-up between two of the Dragons’ promises to spice up the show.

The International Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting celebrated its centenary with the appointment of entrepreneur and Secret Millionaire star Kavita Oberoi as Chair of the Global Girls’ Fund Board.

On April 1st, like many other people, Business Matters columnist, serial entrepreneur and TV dragon Duncan Bannatyne made an April Fools joke. Using his Twitter account he suggested that he was feeling too old to be the face of his gym & leisure business and that he was renaming the group of 60 gyms to “Armstrong Health Clubs” after the name of his managing director Nigel Armstrong. However some people took this joke a little too seriously….

The Enterprising Young Brit Awards for 2010 were announced today at a glittering lunch, attended by Lord Mandelson, at the Institute of Directors in London.

The winners alll received £1,000 for their business, coverage in national media and an invitation to join the Enterprise UK Ambassador programme. As an Enterprise UK Ambassador they will get a chance to network with some of the UK’s top entrepreneurs and help us inspire the next generation of Peter Jones and Michelle Mone!

James Caan and webrecruit have reportedly saved UK’s small to medium sized businesses an estimated £6 million in recruitment costs in just one year.