Rubies in the Rubble founder Jenny Dawson was inspired to start a sustainable food business after a visit to New Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market alerted her to the amount of food thrown away for being the wrong shape or size. Her company has been chosen as one of 2016’s Everline Future 50.
Named as one of the 2016 Everline Future 50, game-changing payment platform and linked card Revolut has attracted 100,000 active users in less than a year by offering users a way to spend or transfer money into 23 currencies without having to pay commission charges.
Engineer Paddy Coleman’s disruptive operations company QStory is shaking up how UK call centres manage some 1.5m staff members. The firm, predominantly based in Guildford, Surrey, with a satellite operational site in South Africa, has recently been named as one of the Everline Future 50.
With the average UK SME owner waiting 72 days before the invoices they send out are settled, innovative fintech player Ormsby Street, one of the Everline Future 50 2016, provides a unique service for small firm bosses seeking to limit their exposure to the cash flow issues caused by late payment.
Trained as an architect, Anthony Impey originally founded his company Optimity in 2003 as a telecoms and IT reseller. But since moving into supplying telecoms in 2013, this pioneering tech player has shaken up the broadband market and made it onto the list of the Everline Future 50 2016.
Openr is a digital marketing tool which allows users to add personalised messages to content they’ve shared on their own website or through social media. It was founded in 2014 by Christina Richardson and Vitaly Yakovlev to allow businesses to get more engagement out of sharing content.
Finance veteran Frank Mukahanana worked in the industry for over 13 years, including stints at big names like Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. He then setup his own ethical fintech disruptor QuidCycle in 2013. The company has gone from strength to strength and has been named in the Everline Future 50 2016.
In a recent World Economic Forum (WEF) report on gender equality in the workplace, the UK was placed 18th in an international ranking, raising the question of what we need to do to compete with international peers. At our annual First Women Summit, experts discussed the best practices from around the world which could help answer this and close the gap.
After his pop-up retail space firm, Appear Here, was awarded Young Company of The Year at the Growing Business Awards, Business Advice spoke to founder Ross Bailey about how he identified a gap in the market and moved in to disrupt the world of commercial property.
Since its founder’s idea for a detangling hairbrush was rejected on Dragon’s Den in 2007, Tangle Teezer has sold over twenty million of the product – and sales have grown from £1m to £30m.
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