Mar 10 issue
With substantial investment comes the weight of expectation. That's not holding back these five entrepreneurs who are using venture capital to turbo-charge their businesses.
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Business XL’s ranking of the most influential, heavy-hitting entrepreneurs and investors in the UK today
Feb 10 issue
Expectations were high for the Copenhagen Summit.
James Harris speaks to winners of the Rosenblatt New Energy Awards to find out why those bold hopes went up in smoke
Dec 09/Jan 10 issue
The stakes are as high as they come for Jasmine Whitbread, the CEO of Save the Children (StC). For her, getting the form and shape of the business right really can be a matter of life and death.
Nov 09 issue
The best companies are always looking for ways to increase their market share.
Kathleen Hall looks at tactics to win business from powerful competitors
Oct 09 issue
Keeping your customers and selling them more services is key to business survival in the downturn.
Nick Britton reports
Jul/Aug 09 issue
Financiers, advisers and dealmakers gathered at the recent M&A Awards to celebrate remarkable achievements in a tough year.
James Harris reports
Jul/Aug 09 issue
Whether you’re scaling mountains, racing cars or going to the gym, undertaking some form of healthy activity will not only help you to combat rising stress levels, you might actually live longer too.
Marc Barber talks to entrepreneurs about how they stay fit for business
Jun 09 issue
The ninth annual Growth Company Awards shows that the right companies with the right leadership can still flourish on the junior stock markets.
Robert Tyerman reports
Jun 09 issue
The concept of sustainability has entered the mainstream.
Nick Britton looks at ways to grow your business and boost your bottom line by applying a bit of green thinking
May 09 issue
A number of high-profile entrepreneurs are trying to show young people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds that there is nothing to stop them making it in business too.
Kathleen Hall reports
May 09 issue
Without investment, creative companies wouldn’t be able to break new ground. The Media Magnate Awards sought to celebrate both the smartest investors and the companies leading the way in the UK’s most dynamic and innovative sector.
Robert Tyerman reports
Apr 09 issue
No matter how charismatic and driven you are, everybody needs a little inspiration now and then. Entrepreneurs tell
Kathleen Hall which books and business theories have made a lasting impression
Apr 09 issue
Entrepreneurs, investors and advisers gathered at the Natural History Museum in London recently to celebrate the second Rosenblatt New Energy Awards.
Marc Barber met up with the winners who are striving to clean up the planet
Mar 09 issue
The winners of the fifth Quoted Company Awards, organised by Business XL’s sister magazine Growth Company Investor, celebrates those who are flourishing in the toughest of circumstances.
Robert Tyerman learns how they’ve done it
Feb 09 issue
Meet the investors, serial entrepreneurs and advisers that every growing company should know in this influential annual ranking.
Dec 08/Jan 09 issue
This year’s dealmakers have needed more than their usual guile and pluck to get transactions done. Nick Britton and Kathleen Hall highlight some of 2008’s most memorable £10 million-plus deals
Dec 08/Jan 09 issue
The need to reduce carbon emissions and find an alternative to fossil fuels grows in urgency with each passing year.
Marc Barber speaks to winners of the Rosenblatt New Energy Awards to see how they’re treading that fine line between innovation and surviving as viable concerns
Nov 08 issue
Investor AllStars, the awards event presented by Business XL and GP Bullhound, lauds the achievements of the movers and shakers on the UK and European venture capital scene.
James Crux reports
Oct 08 issue
Motivating and driving your employees can be as much to do with psychology as a juicy salary.
Marc Barber reports
Sep 08 issue
Great businesses push the boundaries. Business XL brings you the 50 fastest-growing entrepreneurial companies in the UK today – with their combined sales of over £850 million and profits exceeding £110 million
Jun 08 issue
No one wants to see ignorance or indecision in their CEO, but leaders are human too.
Nick Britton looks at how coaching and mentoring can help company chiefs develop their skills.
May 08 issue
If your brand slips, then your premium goes and earnings tumble. Get it right and you can scale your ambition to dizzy heights.
Adam Jolly reports
Apr 08 issue
The inaugural Rosenblatt New Energy Awards celebrated the ingenuity of companies spearheading the revolution in green business.
Nick Britton meets the winners
Mar 08 issue
The internet has created opportunities for entrepreneurs everywhere.
Nick Britton talks to some of them about burgeoning trends in online business
Feb 08 issue
Business XL’s annual ranking of the hottest investors and advisers to growing business in the UK
Feb 08 issue
Jonathan Turner braved sandstorms, 40-degree heat and a breakdown in the middle of Outer Mongolia to complete the Peking to Paris rally in a 100-year-old car. The Bayford CEO tells
Nick Britton why giving up was never an option
Dec 07/Jan 08 issue
Renewable energy is a highly speculative sector – no wonder that it’s found a natural home on AIM.
Oliver Haill reports
Nov 07 issue
When it comes to pay, the gender gap is all too apparent in the UK.
Marc Barber speaks to five high-achieving women to find out whether it really is a man’s world
Oct 07 issue
Whether raising finance, recruiting staff or taking a business out of the red and into the black, a strong leader needs nerves of steel to make the right decisions.
Marc Barber speaks to entrepreneurs who have got what it takes
Oct 07 issue
Life as an independent UK brewer can be hard to swallow, so what better way to forget the storm and stress of commerce than to take to the open sea?
Marc Barber speaks to Jonathan Adnams
Jul/Aug 07 issue
Manufacturing is often regarded as a gloomy, stagnant sector, redolent of toxic emissions, high capital expenditure and ever decreasing profit margins.
Oliver Haill speaks to entrepreneurs who show the opposite to be true
Sep 07 issue
Making money is music to the ears of any entrepreneur. For Ian Rosenblatt, however, music itself is the passion, and since 2000 he’s been happy to spend a portion of his cash on promoting up-and-coming operatic talent.
James Crux finds out more
Jun 07 issue
Disenchanted with academia and disillusioned by VCs, entrepreneur John Scott decided to throw the funding rulebook out the window.
Marc Barber reports
Jun 07 issue
When business brains combine with good causes, the results can be impressive.
Nick Britton reports
Jun 07 issue
When you're the high-flying chief executive of a fast-growing company, there are certain things that you just can’t be expected to do.
Adam Wayland asks the top brass how they share the burden
May 07 issue
Irregular weather patterns suggest the environment isn’t quite what it should be. Top-level entrepreneurs recently met the CEOs of three international charities to come up with ways to tackle climate change.
Marc Barber reports.
May 07 issue
When expanding your business rapidly, it can be easy to forget the essentials.
Nick Britton speaks to heavyweights from five big hitting companies and finds out which rules should never be broken.
Mar 07 issue
An impending demographic ‘time bomb’ will see 25 per cent of the UK’s working population reach retirement age by 2010. Adam Wayland asks six successful entrepreneurs who launched their business later in life whether their advanced years and experience have been a help or a hindrance
Nov 06 issue
Things don’t always go to plan in business, but there are people who can help reverse your fortunes. Robert Tyerman meets turnaround experts with balls in the air and tricks up their sleeves...
Dec 06/Jan 07 issue
The relationship between a growing company’s profits and what it pays its top dogs is never straightforward, as illustrated by the results of the latest annual boardroom remuneration survey, ‘Directors’ Salaries on AIM 2006’
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