From the monthly archives: April 2008
A MULTI-millionaire bankrolling a legal fight to save Sheffield City Airport has revealed he is interested in buying the site as a going concern – and said its loss would be “madness”. Steel magnate Andrew Cook, chairman of William Cook Casting Products, based off Sheffield Parkway, which last year recorded sales of almost £75 [...]
Ian Wallis has been appointed editorial director and head of Entrepreneur TV for cmypitch.com. His role on the soon-to-be-launched website for entrepreneurs will see Wallis conducting video interviews, as well as being responsible for the community aspects of the site. Commenting on his new role, Wallis said: “There’s nothing like cmypitch.com out there at the [...]
Networking is an invaluable tool for any budding entrepreneur. Frustrated by the lack of support, Heather Wilkinson took the bull by the horns and founded business network Striding Out. “The only things currently available for young entrepreneurs are Shell Livewire and the Prince’s Trust,” says Wilkinson. “But I wanted to set up an initiative, run [...]
At the age of 18, Jake Lindemann already has a nice start on his lifelong dreams. He hopes to one day own a nationwide chain of skateboard stores, and he’s got every intention of being involved with stocks. And with a successful run as a Manitowoc businessman already under his belt and money invested in [...]
The owner of a chain of Indian restaurants in Dublin and Wicklow has been named the Permanent TSB Ethnic Entrepreneur of the Year. Asheesh Dewan moved to Ireland from India in 1995. The 39-year-old runs the Jaipur chain of restaurants, which employs around 90 people and has a turnover of almost €5m a year. Mr [...]
Not only can John Reid claim to have been visited by angels, he is one. The 61-year-old entrepreneur founded his Parkers Prairie (Minn.) medical-device company, AbbeyMoor Medical, in 1997 with seed money from so-called angel investors. Such people invest in promising startups too young and raw to attract the attention and money of professional [...]
If perfect timing is a gift successful entrepreneurs have naturally, consider Michael H. Gusky naturally gifted. The Weston-based businessman, who last year sold his leading gold jewelry manufacturing company, Aurafin, to billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, launched online gold buyer GoldFellow on Feb. 6. This came just as the price of gold was [...]
Group for £106m but he is repeating that success now with the AIM-quoted, Redhall Group, which provides engineering services to the nuclear, oil and gas, food and pharmaceutical industries. As chairman and chief executive, Jackson has taken Redhall from a market value of £2.9m to more than £50m in less than three years. He has [...]
Andrew Johnson was living the dream with his wife and family in Portugal until the multinational company for which he worked made him redundant. Forced to reassess his future, he moved to Hull, reconnected with his agricultural roots and started his company, Living Salads, which sells small trays of baby salad plants to supermarkets [...]
Richard Brooks had his epiphany atop a mountain in Chang Mai, Thailand, while convalescing after a serious car accident and the recent death of a close friend. “I realised how precious my own memories were and thought, wouldn’t it be fantastic to give people the ability to store their memories online, year after year,” [...]
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