ENTREPRENEUR Chris Dawson has pulled off another massive coup – buying £29million worth of electrical goods from a failed national wholesaler. The city’s richest man, with a reported fortune of more than £150 million, fought off competition from across Europe to complete the deal to buy Empire Direct’s 28 nation-wide stores on Thursday night. [...]
PASSION! Conviction! Tenacity! Without these traits few entrepreneurs could endure the challenges, setbacks and twists on the road to commercial success. When you’re a female moving into the male-dominated world of environmental science, you can add guts to the mix. Tanya Notaras, founder of analytical testing laboratory Envirolab Services, says: “A (male) competitor told [...]
Quick fire Q&A with Sunderland based entrepreneur Tony Griffiths, you may have recently seen him on CH4′s ‘Come Dine With Me’: Tony thanks so much for giving your time for UKpreneur – I’m sure your story can inspire our readers. Tony, can you tell us what your business is and your role within that [...]
Hundreds of jobseekers are expected to audition for a lucrative “witch” vacancy at tourist site Wookey Hole, in Somerset, on Tuesday. The £50,000-a-year position, advertised earlier in July, is seeking a witch to live in the site’s caves to teach magic and witchcraft. The post, open to both men and women, says the candidate [...]
I have featured Mark Mills on this blog many time before as his energy and his CV of businesses have been so inspiring. Mark has now penned a book (ebook at the moment) that expands on his business journey. A great read that gives you a real insight into who Mark is as a [...]
AN entrepreneur who set up his first business at 17 has taken the plunge again almost 20 years later, after being made redundant. Tony Riddle looked into self-employment when semiconductor company Atmel closed its plant on North Tyneside with the loss of 600 jobs. Tony – who had served in the Army, worked for Marconi [...]
‘Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now’. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The German city of Bielefeld – population 325,000 – is not the most fertile place for young, ambitious Internet entrepreneurs to grow. The Dreyer brothers were itching to leave their home for southern Europe when their father quickly thrust a newspaper article into their hands. “Shanghai – The City of the Future”, it read. That [...]
James Dunning may have started a business – Geotrupes Energy, set up to sell power from small wind farms to a large utility – but he claims to find the entrepreneur label “a bit repellent”. He tries to explain why he had never harboured ambitions to start a business: as well as distaste for [...]
We are highlighting each of the winners of the South Cheshire Chamber Business Awards 2008, held in association with the Chronicle. This week: Jonathan Mullarkey, joint winner of Young Businessperson of the Year, sponsored by Crewe Development Agency IT COULD be the luck of the Irish that came through for entrepreneur Jonathan Mullarkey at the [...]