Now spread out across ten European countries, Treatwell has grown quickly since starting life in 2008 – but has always made crucial investment in technological tools to make the journey smoother.
In partnership with Microsoft, our journey to discover the UK SMEs adopting digital for business growth continues as we hear from the founder of Katherine Elizabeth Millinery about her love of tech and how it’s helped her build her luxury fashion business.
Mark and Matthew Steer are the father and son duo behind Lancar, a Sheffield-based business that has scaled from IT service provider into pub acquisitions – a move which has now resulted in the launch of independent brewery Little Critters.
As part of our Business Class section, we’ve spoken with serial entrepreneur Alfie Best, a man who revealed his Romany gypsy upbringing saw him faced with hurdles and stereotypes – a problem he turned into profit by using enterprise to unlock the high-life.
Showing once again that British businesses are particularly adept at producing luxury goods in high demand, Josephine Home is our latest Digital Champion.
Making its target audience abundantly clear in the company name, Foodie Folk is a catering enterprise delivering cuisine for a variety of sectors – the most lucrative of which is, surprisingly, corporate barbecues.
With stints at Andreessen Horowitz, McKinsey & Company and Index Ventures under his belt, Andre de Haes is well placed to know what the right approach for his fledgling seed-based investment fund is – and told Real Business all about it.
By Bryan Adams
In our digital world, “storytelling” has become a marketing buzzword, but many marketers, business leaders and brands have failed to grasp what it means to tell a compelling story and the power it can summon.
After travelling the world, Nikolay Storonsky found that bank charges had inflicted heavy damage to his wallet – leading to the creation of Revolut. And after securing the Disruptor of the Year Award at the Everline Future 50 Awards, we caught up with him to see how he grew the firm using innovation.
With social media increasingly providing valuable data as well as a means of corporate expression, Real Business spoke to Liliana Osorio, EMEA marketing manager at analytics company Crimson Hexagon, about how growing companies can use this to compete with established brands.
