Interviews

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Interviews 5 min read

Camden Town Brewery: The London beer brand building an empire

When a group of friends came together four years ago and started a brewery in the arches of a railway, they never in their “wildest dreams” imagined they’d be responsible for making 150,000 pints a week.

IN

Interviews 6 min read

The FD who left EY in favour of the startup world and P2P lending

Matt Powell is the financial director at Lending Works, but prior to joining the P2P lending startup, he was working at global audit firm EY (formerly Ernst & Young) and on the road to becoming a partner, so some would call him “crazy” for leaving.

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Business Technology 3 min read

UK tech firms to grow four times rate of GDP in 2015

A fast growth survey from Barclays quizzed owners and chiefs of British tech companies to find that they're set to grow four times faster than the GDP in 2015.

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Interviews 3 min read

First of NatWest’s eight UK business accelerator hubs opens in Birmingham

A Birmingham-based business hub has been opened by NatWest and Entrepreneurial Spark today (9 February), marking the first of eight accelerator offices to open across the UK.

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Interviews 2 min read

IT and financial service sectors lead UK job market growth

The UK's professional recruitment firms have 29 per cent more vacancies to advertise year-on-year, according to data from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo), and IT and financial sectors are driving job opportunities.

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Business Technology 5 min read

Removing the ‘luxury’ tag from private aviation and marketing it as time travel

In January 2014 there was a lot of optimism for the European business jet charter market. But by the end of the year this had gone. In its November figures, aviation data provider Wing-X showed that total European flights for the year-to-date were down by 0.6 per cent on 2013. CEO and founder of Victor Clive Jackson, however, is still enthusiastic.

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Interviews 5 min read

First Women Summit: Men lack confidence too, they just fake it!

Boardrooms are the places decisions get made, deals hammered out and careers often made. However, the behaviour and macho nature of some in this environment can often be toxic to business development.

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Interviews 4 min read

House of Lords joins the debate on encouraging the growth of small businesses in the UK

Lord Leigh of Hurley, senior partner at Cavendish Corporate Finance, gives his thoughts on why small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy, reviews what measures have been taken to support the growth of SMEs and what more could be done.

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Interviews 5 min read

How and why to do an MBO

According to figures from the Centre for Management Buyout Research (CIMBOR) the value of UK buyouts rose to £16.6bn in 2014 – up from £15.8bn a year earlier.