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Huda Janahi - GCC Young Entrepreneur of the Year

Posted on: Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 in: Awards

UKpreneur speaks with Huda Janahi after she became the first Bahraini woman to receive the
What was the award’s impact on you?
This is my fourth award and with my first award I did not know the extent of the impact it would have, it was a surprise. Now with four awards, I feel that it is […]

Divorce-Online’s MD is Voted ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ 2007

Posted on: Friday, March 21st, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
13th March 2008, Swindon, United Kingdom – Mark Keenan, the determined founder of Divorce-Online and Online Legal Services added another award to his trophy cabinet when he won the Wiltshire Business Awards 2007 ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ category last week. The judges felt he is a consumer’s champion because his win/win business concept takes the […]

Advertising Entrepreneur brings SmartCar ads to Helsinki

Posted on: Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
It will soon be possible in Helsinki to rent a tiny Smart car for a 24-hour period for just five euros plus fuel expenses. In exchange for the cheap price, the client will then spend a day as a mobile promoter of the various products advertised on the sides of the vehicle.
     
“The basic price includes […]

Crisp entrepreneur in Private Equity deal

Posted on: Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
Tyrell’s Potato Chips is set to take on private equity backing.
The company is expected to be sold for around £40m, according to the Independent
Tyrells was founded by Will Chase in 2002. The Chase family had owned a mixed arable farm in Herefordshire for 60 years. William bought the business from his father in 1980 and […]

Futures Bright For Solar Entrepreneur

Posted on: Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
AN ENTREPRENEUR from West Yorkshire has quit his job of 20 years and started his own renewable energy equipment company.
Michael McColgan has set up FJD Renewable Energy, which advises residents and businesses on how they can cut energy consumption.
He started the company after giving up his job as a customer service manager in the mechanical […]

What a waste of an ability ….

Posted on: Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 in: News

 
It was very sad to read yet another story of a couple, father and daughter who have just been discovered running a share scam worth £34 million pounds. Yet again we see people who have some motivation, drive and ability to sell, but unfortunately they are selling a fraudulent product. What a waste of skills, […]

Eco-saturation?

Posted on: Monday, March 17th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur, Environmental

 
UKpreneur asks one green entrepreneur if the market for eco friendly products is getting saturated? You can almost get anything now that has a green or eco-friendly quality over the standard product, many of these green products are expensive, so whats the market doing?
EthicalSuperstore.co.uk co-founder Andy Redfern has created a one-stop shop for organic, Fairtrade, […]

Green mail

Posted on: Sunday, March 16th, 2008 in: Environmental

 
I love a good green story, especially one that saves the environment and makes money at the same time …
ecoEnvelopes from the states have been working with the postal service to get their re-usable envelopes accredited for use in the US mail system. Look at the stats:
Some 81 billion return envelopes are sent through the […]

My idea - If i was to start a franchise

Posted on: Saturday, March 15th, 2008 in: Ideas

Ok - so here’s my idea for a business opportunity if i was to start a franchise, not buy a franchise but start one!
It would be a physical magazine called something like ‘It’s Lunch’ or ‘Lunchtime’ and it would be a FREE magazine that would be published say monthly or twice monthly and delivered to […]

“The Mogul Mom” Coaching by Email Program

Posted on: Friday, March 14th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

When her newborn daughter Grace managed to escape every swaddling blanket known to motherkind, and still wasn’t sleeping well at four months old, sleep-deprived Rhode Island mom Heather Allard decided not to take it lying down, bleary eyes wide open. She got creative, started sketching, and Swaddleaze - called the “original 2-in-1 swaddler and sleep […]