A 26-year-old entrepreneur from Texas was named Miss USA on Friday, besting 50 other beauty queens for the coveted crown.
Crystle Stewart of Missouri City, Texas, runs a party-planning and motivational speaking company, and models professionally. She says she wants to dedicate her life to international philanthropy.
“I want to talk to people about how to set […]

  
THE millionaire owner of a North-East football club was in an animated mood after sealing a deal to buy the rights to a children’s cartoon series.
George Houghton, chairman of Darlington Football Club, secured The Lampies for an undisclosed sum.
The series was based on fictional engineers led by Brightlight - who had to keep the world […]

 
A BLACKPOOL entrepreneur has splashed out £3m to develop a rundown industrial estate.
Peter Leonard bought the Hoo Hill estate in Layton and said he plans to encourage more start-up businesses to the area.
The land originally belonged to the Fieldings brickwork empire but has fallen into disrepair over the past few years and has been blighted […]

 
WHEN Luvuyo Rani opened an internet café in Khayelitsha many people told him he was mad. Two years later, with customers queuing up to make use of these precious facility, he has proven his doubters wrong.
In fact, the internet café in the new Khayelitsha Mall cannot keep up with customer demand and Rani is looking […]

 
London entrepreneurs are to be grilled by internationally recognised Bill Muirhead as part of a bid to secure a funding package of up to £5 million.
Bill Muirhead, a partner at the world renowned M&C Saatchi advertising agency, is to sit on the judging panel for the London region of the Bank of Scotland Corporate £35 million […]

 
I liked this guy, funny, down to earth and at times had good business acumen but he crumbled when confronted by a stronger team member. Ex-forces also!
UKpreneur talks to Simon now he is out of the competition:
How did you feel the day after your big day?
I mean, I’m ok. I think you saw where I lost […]

 
She’s neither a rah-rah feminist railing against glass ceilings, nor a retiring housewife, jasmine-studded oiled hair hanging down her back and a nominal interest in business.
Rajshree Pathy, a non-conformist all her life, is proud to be a small-town entrepreneur with big ambitions (she runs the Coimbatore-based Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Limited, a company with interests […]

 
Starting out on the building sites of London in mid-1980s, Michael Taggart soon had a small team of subcontractors feeding off the Thatcherite building boom. 
He returned home to run the family farm after his father passed away a few years later. But he needed to have another string to his bow and started building houses […]

 
Warren County multimillionaire Jared Isaacman, 25, returned to Morristown Airport in Hanover Township on Tuesday afternoon with co-pilots Douglas Demko, 26, and Shaun Leach, 27, both of Pennsylvania.
Their flight team tried twice to break a world record for an around-the-world flight, set in 1991 for a jet that weighs between 3,000 to 6,000 kilograms, but […]

 
Paying your income tax with a smile instead of money will not make you richer, and tried and tested ways of struggling towards that first million were found to be least favoured over the option of inheritance.
The younger 20-somethings who took part in the Standard Life national survey, were not the most confident group on […]