From the monthly archives: July 2008
I really think this invention has legs for the UK airports after all the delays and security issues we have …. Frank Giotto, who owns a number of successful companies, does a lot of business travel. He noted that in recent years there has been a great increase in the number of airline delays [...]
I have just heard today on the radio that Wrapit the wedding list company has gone into administration. Orders booked on credit cards can be rescued but think of all those weddings that will be ruined due to this company going under. The website was still unbelievably live when I last checked it but [...]
A motorcycle accident 19 years ago restricted Dave Lewis’s mobility but swung open the door to a business opportunity for the now 39-year-old entrepreneur. Lewis was driving home from his job managing a rental equipment store in LaPorte when he hit a hole on a set of railroad tracks and was thrown into an 8-foot [...]
Birmingham entrepreneur Richard Randolph says he has a passion for helping companies reach their full potential. After getting tutelage from David and Steve Upton, owners of CraneWorks in Birmingham, Randolph made his first business plunge in 1993 at age 27 when he joined a California entrepreneur and helped form Gravity Works. The duo created [...]
A BUDDING entrepreneur, who is registered blind, has scooped a regional award. Adam Flavell, 17, from Bagillt is celebrating success after picking up the Sir John Moores Award at the Young Enterprise North West Final at Aintree Racecourse earlier this month. Adam worked alongside fellow students from St. Vincent’s School for the Blind and [...]
In 1973, when Bill Gross was 15 and cars were lined up at every gas station in Southern California, he wanted to do something about high energy prices. An aspiring engineer, he figured out how to build parabolic concentrators and Stirling engines to capture the sun’s energy, selling the plans for $4 apiece through ads in [...]
The UK Young Design Entrepreneur Award is the newest award in the British Council’s Young Creative Entrepreneur programme. Created by the British Council in partnership with the Cultural Leadership Foundation, the award recognises the potential of an individual, aged between 25 and 35, working within the design industry, to be a future leader of [...]
An aspiring indie band struggling to make the big time will tonight become the first ever band to secure financial backing on the BBC2 hit show Dragons’ Den. In a move away from tradition, where a band is wooed by a record firm and hopefully given a deal, Hamfatter asked the Dragons for £75,000 [...]
WHEN a prominent British businessman and friend of the stars divorced the mother of his four children, local gossips said that the mean old skinflint had fleeced her to pursue his champagne lifestyle. Fed up with the malicious rumours, Gary Dean decided that the only way to silence his critics was to post the [...]
A Canadian rescue team has thrown in the towel in search and rescue operations of American multi-millionaire businessman and adventurer Steve Fossett.Fossett disappeared when his small plane vanished last September in the mountains along the U.S.-Canada border. Reports said that Fossett’s plane was on a routine flight it encountered by strong winds. Simon Donato, 31, [...]
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