On the back of Virgin Media announcing that it will be spending £3bn over the next five years to upgrade the British internet infrastructure, we quiz Virgin Media Business managing director Peter Kelly on what the announcement really means.
We sat down with Mike McGee, co-founder and creative director of Framestore, about the evolution from four-person startup to winning an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for work on sci-fi film Gravity, and what skills employees require to fit the company’s diverse operation.
Less than a year after securing growth capital from renowned venture capital firm Index Ventures and inking a deal with car manufacturer BMW, JustPark is hitting the fundraising trail again – this time by using the crowd.
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.
By David Craik
Julie Kenny, chair and chief executive of Rotherham-based security alarm manufacturer Pyronix, believes the government should look seriously at slashing the cost of university fees by as much as 50 per cent for engineering students – but only if they join the industry immediately after graduation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ahead of the 2015 general election, Real Business rounded up a handful of entrepreneurs and executives to discuss the issues small businesses face from the government, and the changes they would like to see by the next party in power.
