Brian Burnie gives fortune to charity
Brian Burnie spent more than £16m transforming Doxford Hall in Northumberland into one of the country's most luxurious spa hotels. And now he's selling his entire empire to help cancer sufferers.
Brian Burnie spent more than £16m transforming Doxford Hall in Northumberland into one of the country's most luxurious spa hotels. And now he's selling his entire empire to help cancer sufferers.
Beauty magnate Rob Calcraft gave £10,000 of his fortune to the Thrift Charitable Trust after spending a week undercover at the Burrow-based charity for the Secret Millionaire TV show. But now enraged Thrift founder Colin Biggs is giving it all away...
No wonder Chris Rea is happy. The owner of AESSEAL and speaker at this year’s Entrepreneurs’ Summit has been preparing for this recession for ten years and his company has just added a record four Queen's Awards to its collection of seven.
The Apprentice last night. Oh my word. I wanted to throw the remote control, my cup of tea, the cat, anything! at the television over the course of episode four.
Real Business agony uncle Martin Dunne is the answer to all your accounting woes. Each week he will tackle another problem faced by entrepreneurs. This week: "What are the pros and cons of setting up a separate limited company?"
Grant Bovey was the poster boy for Real Business back in 2007: he appeared on our front cover and was shortlisted for the Entrepreneur of the Year gong at our Growing Business Awards. But not even he has been able to escape the jaws of the credit crunch.
Andrew Ramsay is the fifth generation owner of bacon-curing business Ramsay of Carluke. Before he took the reins, things hadn’t changed much at the Scottish firm since its founding in 1857. They have now.
TV’s tallest Dragon has launched Britain’s first Enterprise Academy. But will the Bucks-based college be churning out the next generation of entrepreneurs?
One of the three co-founders of Apax Partners, Maurice Tchenio, is suing the buy-out house over the split of fees and profits in Europe since 2001.
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