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Where do people with money play? - Millionaires Fair

Posted on: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in: What The F!

 
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Curry Franchise? Will it work?

Posted on: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in: Ideas

 
When it comes to restaurant chains, diners usually know what to expect from the hamburgers or coffee in places like McDonalds or Costa.
But with Indian food, would one want the masala or korma to taste the same everywhere?
One group is hoping so, as it aims to be the first chain of Indian restaurants with franchises […]

Recycling firm dreams of nappy days

Posted on: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in: News

 
We do it with bottles and paper, cardboards and cans.
But when it comes to recycling disposable nappies - and used ones at that - there is undoubtedly a whiff of suspicion.
Nevertheless, a Canadian firm has unveiled plans for a UK first - a processing plant to do just that.
Knowaste - which already recycles hundreds of […]

UK’s super-rich ‘getting richer’

Posted on: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in: News

 
The UK’s super-rich have never been richer, according to this year’s Sunday Times Rich List.
The top 1,000 richest people in the country now have more than £400bn between them, it estimates - up almost £53bn in the last year.
Forty of the top 75 are foreign. Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal is top again with £27.7bn, […]

London 2012 on ‘ambush’ alert

Posted on: Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in: News

Love them or loath them, you can’t ignore them, and ambush marketing campaigns are bound to be as big a part of the 2012 Olympics in London as they are around any other major sporting event.
And the man tasked with the responsibility of keeping the multi-billion pound sponsors of the event happy, candidly admits that […]

Sandra McClumpha, takes over Fake Bake

Posted on: Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
The female entrepreneur who brought Fake Bake artificial tanning creams to Britain has acquired the brand’s American parent company in a deal worth more than £10m.  
Sandra McClumpha, who has distributed the tanning products in Britain since 2001, is buying the rights to the brand from founders Joe and Mary Cooper and will control distribution in […]

Young Entrepreneur Spreads Cheer, With Oprah’s Blessing

Posted on: Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
At age 9, Cameron Johnson started his first business, making greeting cards and party invitations on the Compaq computer he got for Christmas. Three years later, the Virginia native was making $50,000 a year selling Beanie Babies online from his parents’ garage.  
At 15, after flying to Tokyo to advise a large corporation, Johnson was an […]

British lorry driver swindles millionaire

Posted on: Monday, April 28th, 2008 in: News

 
Dutch millionaire businessman Marcel Boekhorn, the man behind free newspaper De Pers, has been swindled out of almost €1.5m by a bankrupt English lorry driver, the Volkskrant reports on Friday.
The paper says Boekhorn was fooled into thinking he could buy London’s Ritz hotel from its owners, the secretive billionaire Barclay brothers, for a bargain price.
The […]

I’m an eBay millionaire

Posted on: Monday, April 28th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
WHEN Jamie Murray sold his old PlayStation 2 on eBay, he never dreamt it was the start of a multi-million pound business.
But three years on, the dad-of-four is at the helm of computer, mobile and camera accessory company BMC Digital - one of eBay’s biggest success stories.
With a turnover in excess of £3.5m, it’s an […]

Anyone can do it, says bus driver millionaire

Posted on: Monday, April 28th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur

 
A FORMER bus driver has plans to build a multi- million-pound online estate agency business after making a splash in property investment. 
Ronnie Davison quit his job driving buses for Arriva in Redcar in 2006 after building up a property portfolio worth £5m and is now using the profits to launch online venture Ultimatehomesandfinance.co.uk
Ronnie was bitten […]