Must Have Ideas: The online retailer dominating social media and consumer trends
Gut feeling and a keen eye for customers has helped Must Have Ideas go from homebased start-up to an online success story
Business Leader South West Awards 2024 winners revealed
Business Leader has revealed the winners of this year’s Business Leader South West Awards at an event at Aerospace in Bristol
Shattering glass ceilings: The life and legacy of Dame Stephanie Shirley
From escaping the Holocaust as a child refugee to founding a groundbreaking tech company, Dame Stephanie Shirley's life is a testament to resilience, innovation and philanthropy
British retail sales rise and recession fears die down
Plus, Revolut wooed by UK gov, Starbucks' new CEO's eye watering compensation package revealed and how to take your team on a workcation
Crittall Windows: The evolution of an iconic brand
Managing director of renowned window brand Crittall Windows talks about running a company with a 200-year legacy and how to transform working culture and practices
Wage growth slows as the jobs market “cools” and the impact of day one unfair dismissal rights
Plus, why AI-labelled products can scare away customers, the Yorkshire tech revolution and an advertising ban business leaders need to take note of
The company that turned a milk round into a £250m business
Plus, OpenAI testing AI-powered search feature, THG slashing more jobs, UK drivers still paying too much for fuel and your Friday pick-me-up
Should tourists pay more?
Plus, use of cash hits four-year high, ice cream prices rise by 30 per cent and lessons from the global IT outage
Is this the most important business in Europe?
Plus, Britain set to miss 2030 clean power targets, chancellor aiming to woo US investors and exited Carpetright founder strikes rescue deal
Biden steps down and Britain’s billion-pound businesses
Plus, Biden steps down, company financial distress on the rise and the IMF issues the chancellor a stern warning
Graphcore sold and Biden rattled
Plus, Rachel Reeves to form new council of economic advisers, UK business distress fastest rising in Europe and Rio Tinto is wargaming a massive takeover
UK economy grows faster than expected
Plus, FCA overhauls listings regime, UK overtakes India as the world’s third-largest venture capital market and British tycoon closing in on a deal for The Body Shop
Retailers count the cost of a wet summer
Plus, Wimbledon choosing to leave $100m on the table, Asda scraps its four-day work week and Thames Water needs fresh funds
Labour’s ‘difficult’ economic decisions
Plus, low exec pay risks a US talent drain, Carlsberg acquires Britvic and is this the end of levelling up?
Business welcomes Labour government but pushes for real change
Plus, inflationary pressures ease further, UK steel warns over the high price of electricity and Amazon turns 30
Is fear an effective driver of performance?
Plus, new car sales hit five-year high, private equity M&A growth, and a new Barbie exhibition launches
Why complacency is almost always a prelude to failure
Plus, steakhouse Hawksmoor is up for sale, election investment boost pending and record cash injection into equity funds
Big Zuu’s big vision: Innovating music, TV and the water industry
The rapper and TV presenter is a larger than life character who has turned a tough start into a mould-breaking success story
The woman behind a ticketing juggernaut
Plus, the next government to benefit from easing of the cost-of-living crisis, Tata Port Talbot steel plant strikes called off and Revolut reports record profits
Addressing the UK’s ‘tax gap’
Plus, newspapers reveal who they're backing in the general election, pension fund to "unlock access" to PE gains and exec pay gap between the UK and US widens
The risk of private equity to the economy
Plus, the UK's top 100 fastest-growing companies, the six high school friends now worth £1bn and Aviva chief says the next government can unlock £100bn of investment
Job openings on the decline
Plus, the UK's biggest lender has a major warning for the next PM, a spotlight on AI washing and new theme park to boost economy by nearly £50bn
The tragedy behind one angel’s public success
Angel investor and entrepreneur Peter Cowley talks about how his business success has come despite enormous personal tragedy
The tough choices over net zero
Plus, Lufthansa adds green surcharge to flight costs, how Bernard Arnault built LVMH and why Netflix thinks you should fire some employees