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UK Energy Partners: Providing energy efficiency in the construction arena

UK Energy Partners was founded by former Isis Telecommunications Management creators Gething and Smith, the latter company having been sold to Vodafone in 2007. It was the recent trend for growing energy prices and a latent market demand for energy conservation that inspired the new Everline Future 50 business.

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Toucan Fruit innovates the exotic fruit import process

Leaving a banking career of ten years behind, Soraya Bahrami set out to create Everline Future 50 company Toucan Fruit – using her knowledge of trade finance and Mauritian heritage to help with importing delicious exotics from her homeland.

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Disrupting the UK’s £4bn season ticket business, CommuterClub makes travel cheaper

Public transport can be a distressing place at the best of times, but even more so as a commuter who has to pay upwards of £1,500 a year to get to work – and that's where CommuterClub, in this year's Everline Future 50, comes in. Through a combination of crowdfunding and P2P lending, the service lets commuters across the country buy annual season tickets to save an average of £200 each annually.

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Caprice: I was too naive and American when I started

Former model Caprice Bourret speaks exclusively to Real Business on camera, revealing her childhood exposure to entrepreneurship, what prompted her to move into the business world with lingerie line By Caprice Products and the hard mistakes she learned along the way.

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David Cameron describes Virgin Medias Project Lightning as economic plan vote of confidence

Virgin Media is to pump £3bn into internet infrastructure in what is being called the single largest investment in the space for more than a decade.

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From early disruptors to market leaders, the evolution of five British trailblazers

With the 2015 Everline Future 50 cohort set to be announced in March, Real Business has been looking back on some of its historical members – and it has made for some impressive reading.

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Many new fathers won’t qualify for shared parental leave

From April, mothers will be allowed to share up to 50 weeks of their maternity leave and 37 weeks of their pay with their partners. However, analysis carried out by the TUC shows that two-fifths of working dads with a child under one would be ineligible, mainly because their partner is not in paid work.

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A look back at the disruptive businesses that are now household names

In the lead up to the 2015 outing of the Everline Future 50 crop of disruptive companies, Real Business takes a trip down memory lane and picks some of its alumnus to see how much progress has been made.

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Indie versus major MOBO Award-winning rapper and music label owner Sway talks entrepreneurship

Google and Sage aligned for a small business project this month, gathering a number of entrepreneurs from across the UK together at the technology firm's London HQ, where Real Business sat down for a one-to-one chat with rapper Sway.