Interviews of some of the UKs leading Entrepreneurs & small business owners
We speak to Paul Fisher, the COO of Jockey Club Racecourses, who recently went ‘back to the floor’ within the organisation for Channel 4’s ‘Undercover Boss’ reality series about what inspires him and how he found the experience at working at the lower levels of the organisation.
Simon Waugh, Executive Chair of the National Apprenticeship Service talks to us about the service, its philosophy, and what inspires him to get out of bed in the morning.
Tony Banks, Founder, Chairman & MD of the Balhousie Group tells us about his business philosophy, and what inspires him to get out of bed in the morning.
We talk to TV personality and owner of JBW Group, Jamie Waller, about his business philosophy, and what inspires him to get out of bed in the morning.
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.
We talk to Paul Morris, the managing director of Addmaster, the founder of the company which develops additives for plastic industries, about what motivates and inspires him in business and the advice he would give to someone just starting out.
We talk to Brian Sharples, the CEO of HomeAway, the UK’s Number 1 holiday rentals website, about what motivates and inspires him in business and the advice he would give to someone just starting out.
We talk to Andrew Skeene, entrepreneur and one of the co-owners of Global Forestry Investments, about what motivates and inspires him in business and the advice he would give to someone just starting out.
We talk to Jo-are Bjerke, managing director of seating specialists HÅG, about what motivates and inspires him in business and the advice he would give to someone just starting out.
We talk to Andrew Butt, the co-founder and managing director of both Enable Software and Enable Infomatrix. Andrew began his working life aged 12 fixing computers at a Coventry based helicopter company, and who then went to become the youngest ever qualified helicopter pilot aged 17 about what motivates and inspires him in business and the advice he would give to someone just starting out.
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.
