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Matt Grech-Smith

Swingers and the rise of ‘competitive socialising’ 

Matt Grech-Smith talks about how Swingers leveraged pop-up spaces and social media to create a thriving business with a £39m turnover and plans for further expansion on the Business Leader podcast

Dougal Shaw

Trafalgar Square with Nelson Pillar and a crowd of people walking around

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

Josh Dornbrack, Sarah Vizard

Matt Grech-Smith

Swingers CEO: A pop-up gave us our breakthrough

Indoor, inner city mini golf combined with a boozy night out sounded like a crazy idea, but a pop-up in east London gave it a chance with customers and investors

Dougal Shaw

Outside of a PureGym

PureGym’s CEO on why leaders need a sense of healthy paranoia

The sin of complacency undoes many good businesses, says PureGym CEO Humphrey Cobbold. To avoid it, leaders must ask themselves the hard questions

Humphrey Cobbold

Business class flights: What you need to know

The aviation industry has changed a lot over the past few decades and is now seen as being as common as many other forms of travel. Whether for business, personal needs or going on holiday, many of us have had varied experiences of air travel. And with many different options available, many do not know...

Josh Dornbrack

Cardiff capital region agrees £40m funding for metro development

The Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) Cabinet have agreed to support the £180m re-development of Cardiff’s main transport hub with £40m of funding. The proposed Metro Central project will deliver a new Central Transport Interchange at the heart of Cardiff’s city centre Core Employment Zone. The project encompasses a new Central bus station, the modernisation of...

Josh Dornbrack