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The head of Risk Capital Partners, and former chair of Channel 4, Luke Johnson has today launched a scathing attack on the BBC for what he calls grotesque programmes like Dragons' Den & The Apprentice which fit their in-house prejudices perfectly making business out to be 'ruthless, domineering and egotistical.'
Over 150 of the UK’s most innovative and resilient public and private sector businesses have been announced as finalists in the National Business Awards in partnership with Orange.
Getting to know you: Tony Banks
Tony Banks, Founder, Chairman & MD of the Balhousie Group tells us about his business philosophy, and what inspires him to get out of bed in the morning.
“Where exactly is the ‘middle of nowhere’ please?”
With the latest figures on graduate recruitment showing that vacancies have dropped by nearly 7% in the year up to June 2010 following a fall of 8.9% in 2009, businesses might be forgiven for thinking that the lucky few to succeed in gaining employment would turn up on the first day with a strong work ethic.
Jamie Waller is the UK’s best known debt recovery and enforcement specialist. His company, JBW Group, work with businesses and local councils across the UK in debt management and enforcement. Jamie regularly appears on BBC Television and various others stations offering expert advice.
Here he provides his tops tips for businesses to ensure credit and debts are kept under control:
One of the world's leading business networking gurus Dr Ivan Misner has hit out against the explosion of "premature solicitation" for work on social media websites by people who play the numbers game rather than cultivate relationships.
A 50 point check-list for business legal securityWe spoke to Chris Sherliker, founding partner of the London based law firm Silverman Sherliker, who gave us a non-exhaustive 50 point checklist designed to help you avoid some very common legal pitfalls and maximise the legal security of your business.
Coutts withdraws free banking for those with less than £250,000 in their accountCoutts, the bank which boasts the Queen as a customer, has withdrawn free banking to customers with less than £250,000 in their accounts.
The best new business desktop computersThe newest desktops are designed to reduce energy consumption while boosting performance and security. Here are four of the best for businesses.
Reviewed: Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, OxfordArriving at Raymond Blanc's legendary retreat Le Manoir was a pleasure from the moment we arrived in the car park where an extremely helpful man appeared, greeted us and took the car keys. We achieved instant calm as we stepped through an opening in a hedge and heard the expensive whirring of a helicopter coming in to land. We had arrived.
