Mothers at home are getting busy making a fortune with a kitchen table business, over this week UKpreneur features three women from Ireland making a start:
Women often face a tough decision after having a baby – should they return to the workforce or should they forget about their career and concentrate on being a stay-at-home […]
Bilha Maina could not have ignored the chance to invest Sh500,000 of her savings on a Jatropha plantation in Matuu where her family owns 40 acres of land.
Ms Maina is the CEO of Adopt a Village an enterprise that grows Jatropha trees and trades them to farmers, and industries that are seeking alternative energy sources.
Lately, […]
At age 10, Seth Davis would go door-to-door offering his lawn mower service to any neighbor who would give him a chance.
Back then, the child showed a budding chutzpah, said Mel Kornbluh, the father of one of Davis’ childhood friends.
“He was never afraid of a challenge, never afraid to try anything,” Kornbluh said recently.
That same […]
If the men are doing it so are the women. From opening restaurants to starting hotels, actresses are also blurring the lines between the worlds of Bollywood and business.
While actors like Mithun Chakraborty, Shah Rukh Khan and Suniel Shetty are thriving in the business world, their counterparts Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai and Preity Zinta are […]
Ron Sim is an entrepreneur at heart. As a child, he sold noodles on the streets of Singapore for pocket money. In the early 1980s he set up a trading company selling household goods and appliances. Over time, that evolved into Osim, which today generates most of its 380 million dollar annual revenues from high-end […]
A true domestic goddess who swept away the competition has been named as a finalist in the British Franchiser of the Year awards.
Businesswomen Pam Bader, of Vicarage Road, Maidenhead, has gained recognition from the British Franchise Association (BFA) after succesfully franchising Molly Maid Ltd in the UK 22 years ago.
Pam’s career began as a nursery […]
A SHEFFIELD entrepreneur who used her own experiences to start a gluten and wheat-free food company is hoping to be in the running for a £50,000 business award.
Sheffield Hallam University graduate Emma Killilea set up Delicious Alchemy after discovering she suffered a severe wheat and gluten intolerance.
Just 15 months on and Emma, aged 36, who took a […]
A British web-millionaire is to launch a social networking site to help raise awareness about malaria worldwide.
Tom Hadfield set up Soccer.net when just a teen and sold the site for $40 million to to US sports network ESPN when he was just 17-years-old. He then managed to raise millions to setup Schoolsnet.com
However, he has now […]
One of Britain’s youngest self-made multi-millionaires has won a prestigious business and commerce award. Azeem Ibrahim, 32, whose various concerns have earned him an estimated worth of around £58m, has secured the Lloyds TSB - KPMG Business and Commerce Excellence Jewel Award 2008.
In various categories, the Jewel Awards celebrate positive contributions to the social and […]
The difficulties of global economy haven’t affected the increase in millionaire number. What’s more, millionaires of emerging nations have joined the race.
The developed economies yet lead in number of millionaires. The United States is ahead of others (3.1 million) and it is followed by Japan, Britain and Germany. At the same time, the emerging nations […]