The power of rebranding

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

New energy: powering growth

The inaugural Rosenblatt New Energy Awards celebrated the ingenuity of companies spearheading the revolution in green business. Nick Britton meets the winners

Tomorrow’s world wide web

The internet has created opportunities for entrepreneurs everywhere. Nick Britton talks to some of them about burgeoning trends in online business

The Power Top 50

Business XL’s annual ranking of the hottest investors and advisers to growing business in the UK

Spending it: Jonathan Turner

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

Powering a renewable revolution

Renewable energy is a highly speculative sector – no wonder that it’s found a natural home on AIM. Oliver Haill reports

Ladies who launch

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

Leading from the front

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

Spending it: Jonathan Adnams

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

Made in the UK

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

Spending it: Ian Rosenblatt

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

John Scott: why VCs fail

Disenchanted with academia and disillusioned by VCs, entrepreneur John Scott decided to throw the funding rulebook out the window. Marc Barber reports

Bridging the gap

When business brains combine with good causes, the results can be impressive. Nick Britton reports

Decisive delegation

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

Changing the business climate

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.

Golden rules for business growth

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.

Older and wiser?

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

It's a kind of magic

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...

Pockets full of cash

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’...