A hundred years ago, it would have made no sense to wish somebody a “nice weekend”. There was no “hump day” to give colleagues a mid-week morale boost because there was no defined end to the working ...

Jonathan Spry is co-founder and CEO of Envelop Risk. He started the company in 2016. It has its HQ in Bristol, but also operates in London and Bermuda. It specialises in cyber and emerging risk ...

Last week, we discussed how an entrepreneur had implemented weekly ‘AI Days’ to drive the use of the technology across his 400-strong workforce. This week, I want to introduce you to an entrepreneur ...

Rishi Khosla is a British-Indian entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive officer of OakNorth Bank. He studied economics at University College London and earned a master’s in accounting and ...

Established in 1998 by Richard Reed, Adam Balon and Jon Wright, Innocent Drinks started out selling smoothies at a music festival in London. From these beginnings, it has grown into a global ...

There are not many businesses whose products have become a byword for a whole category. Google has managed it, as has Hoover, Sellotape and Velcro. But there’s one you might not even realise was a ...

Nick Grey is the founder and owner of Gtech, which specialises in cordless household appliances. It started out with vacuum cleaners, but has since expanded into products including hedge trimmers, ...

Body Fuel™, the sports drink endorsed by UFC star Paddy “The Baddy” Pimblett and the latest release from UK-based Sports Nutrition manufacturer Applied Nutrition, has officially launched in B&M stores ...

When Stuart Machin describes a typical morning as CEO of Marks & Spencer, it reads less like a schedule and more like a case study in intensity. At the 2026 Business Leader Summit, he described a day ...

Having come through a rigorous judging process featuring judges such as Gallagher’s managing director Andy Ferguson, Heat Recruitment CEO Steve Preston, Ovo’s Alison Jaap and Strike Communications MD ...

Bassim Haidar is a Lebanese national, Nigerian-born self-made billionaire. Starting his first business at just 20 years old, Haidar has gone on to establish Optasia, a large telecoms provider which ...

During the 1980s, in the midst of surging unemployment, Margaret Thatcher’s government rolled out the Enterprise Allowance Scheme (EAS), an initiative which provided a weekly allowance for unemployed ...