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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