UKpreneur meets up with Tom Dawes - founder of the Liverpool based aerospace supply chain management firm Aerogisitcs, he also acquired the struggling 120 year old metal coatings specialist King & Fowler in 2005 adding £2 million to his empires top line.  
Tom, how would you describe an entrepreneur? 
Entrepreneurs visualize future opportunities and re-engineer existing […]

Importing peruvian beer, hmmm what an interesting business idea …. but one that worked for Gareth Whittle and Kieron Barton - two former Huddersfield University Marketing students who held down respectable jobs - tasted Cusqueña (CUS-KEN-YA) lager whilst travelling in Peru. So impressed by the taste of the lager - and after they woke up […]

 
Here are ten ways to make some extra paper, this was taken from Barclays Bank website

10 ways to make money

If you’re looking at ways to supplement your income, here are some options other than working behind a bar or stacking shelves at a supermarket.
1 Police ID parades
Taking part in identity parades is easy money - […]

 
A FAMILY, a good career and a flexible working life. Can you have it all? Some women seem to think so, and growing numbers are finding a way of making it a reality by working as interim managers.
Filling a temporary gap, or working on a specific project, used to be dismissed as something for semi-retired […]

 
Job hunters perfecting their CV’s for that dream job are being urged to also polish their online profile — and clean it up if need be, with a new breed of companies emerging to help mold Internet images.
A study of 1,150 hiring managers by Careerbuilder.com found 26 percent of managers admitted to using search engines such […]

 
What’s the best thing to do with money: Spend it, save it or give it away?
The ideal answer, says Eulalie Scandiuzzi, is to recognize the importance of all three. That’s why she created colorful children’s banks with three compartments: spend, save and share.
Too many families, she said, either don’t talk about money at all or […]

 
Want to start a business, how about starting a business and offering it to taxi firms. I had an idea when getting driven home this weekend by a taxi. Now when i use a taxi in London one firm has taken advantage of a council grant by converting their cars so they can run on […]

 
A good site for inventors, InvenTube.com is a social network for inventors. The idea behind the site was to create an online community for those seeking communicative collaboration with other inventors.
The network itself is pretty basic, but has the necessary functions. Browse user profiles and patents, participate in forums, create a poll, write a blog, […]

 
An interesting business concept that was emailed my way this weekend. Marla Cilley doesn’t just sell millions of FlyLady-branded products - kitchen timers, license plate holders, ostrich-feather dusters, books, calendars, mouse pads, T-shirts, tote bags, sink stoppers, water bottles, and lapel pins. She also sends out nagging emails to over 400,000 of her subscribers - […]

 
UKpreneur catches up with Ben Way to hear more about his latest project -the Horses Mouth.
If you don’t know who Ben Way is then let me give you some history, Ben was one of the first dot com millionaires after developing a search technology called Waysearch which later became a business-to-business product called Pulsar. He was reportedly […]