1. Marshall Arts If only Barrie Marshall had stuck with his plans of working as a civil engineer in local government, he might have put together a pretty decent career from working on building sites ...

Read or listen to our interview with Peter Jelkeby, the CEO of Ikea's United Kingdom and Ireland business, here. For my appointment with Ikea boss Jesper Brodin, I line up with hard-hatted ...

C. Hoare & Co C. Hoare & Co is, by some distance, the oldest company in the Growth 500. When the goldsmith Sir Richard Hoare opened a shop on Cheapside in the City of London in 1672, Charles II was on ...

Devolved ownership and empowering your people have been key themes in leadership and performance over the past decade or so, not least when talking about long-term, sustained success. Indeed, one of ...

In this instalment of our weekly video series, My Business Leader Secret, we talk to Tim Cadogan, the British businessman leading US tech firm GoFundMe. His secret is that in order to advance your ...

Luton Town FC Promotion to the Premier League doesn’t just make players and fans walk a little taller, it also supercharges a club’s finances. When Luton Town broke into English football’s top-flight ...

Sister Sister has had a bumper few years. Founded in 2015, the independent production company is behind hit TV shows including The Split and This is Going to Hurt for the BBC, Black Doves and ...

Zenobe In August 2024, English band Massive Attack put on a one-day festival with a difference. The concert in Bristol was designed to be net zero, from how it was powered to the transport to get ...

We’re not long into our conversation before international tennis player turned tech founder Oliver Kent-Braham delivers his first ace. “Sometimes,” beams the elder of the 33-year-old twins behind the ...

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses,” Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, once quipped. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, didn’t conduct focus groups ...

Zopa Few companies have pivoted quite as well as Zopa. Starting out 20 years ago as the world’s first peer-to-peer lender, the London-based fintech wound up this operation in 2021 after transforming ...

Strathberry Husband-and-wife team Guy and Leeanne Hundleby have built handbag maker Strathberry from their in-home office to one of Scotland’s best-known luxury brands. Started in 2013, all the bags ...