How naivety may have helped one couple set up their business
We talk to Henry Braham and Glynis Murray who work in the film industry – but launched Good Oil in 2004 after stumbling across hemp seed oil's nutty taste and nutritional benefits. Today, the company has a turnover of £1m
Media reports have suggested that the pair are"blissfully happy" together, with Taylor supposedly meeting Walsh's mother.
A show source said: "Kate and Philip are mixing business with pleasure - and it's not having a positive effect on them selling. Their relationship is a big part of this week's show."
During tonight's show, Taylor suggests a pub visit to Walsh and fellow contestant Lorraine Tighe expresses annoyance at the pair.
Tighe said: "I want to know what is causing all the distractions. And I hope for Kate, Phil and Ben's sake it is not Kate's beauty."
Walsh has claimed that although she shared a kiss with Taylor, they did not have a fully-fledged fling. Barack Obama orders British mother's cookbook Barack Obama, the US President, has ordered 12 copies of a healthy eating cookbook created by British mother, Sally Bee. Business Woman of the year: Gail Rebuck It’s coming to something when you receive the top business award for women in the UK from Sir Trevor McDonald and all the press want to do is talk about your daughter.
That was the ‘plight’ yesterday of Random House’s chair and CEO Gail Rebuck CBE, who was yesterday named the 36th Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year. For the record her daughter is Georgia Gould, the 22-year-old Oxford graduate at the centre of a storm over a safe Labour seat for which she’s running in which a sealed ballot box had been tampered with. Profile: Julie Meyer We profile Julie Meyer, New 'Dragon' & Co-Founder of First Tuesday & CEO of Ariadne Capital. The American who is shaking up the British start-up community. 'I'm no bottler' - says businessman who quit The Apprentice Adam Freeman - the man who created a media storm after quitting The Apprentice hours before he was due to meet Sir Alan Sugar - has hit back at claims he is simply a cocky Essex boy who bottled it.
He's been called a wannabe and a drop-out, but the 31-year-old businessman from Chigwell has told how he decided to pull out after producers tried to pressure him into presenting himself as another Sir Alan. Life after The Apprentice: Michelle Dewberry Having fought off stiff competition from over 15,000 people to win the second series of The Apprentice, Michelle Dewberry started her first business, consultancy firm Michelle Dewberry Ltd (MDL) in 2006.
Since then Michelle has written a book, ‘Anything is Possible’, as well as doing regular motivational speaking. She has recently started a new venture, online newsletter Chiconomise. New dragons unveiled for online version The BBC have revealed that entrepreneur Julie Meyer is one of the new panellists for the recently unveiled online version of Dragons' Den.
The web version of the hit television show will begin its weekly broadcast on the 30th of March, where aspiring entrepreneurs will have the chance to secure up to £50,000 worth of investment. Broadcaster seeks a wider audience Sportsmedia, started by flamboyent entrepreneur Jonny Gould, began by offering sponsored broadcasts to local radio stations; but diversification into new channels and topics has left its founder with growing pangs. “I have no idea how you write a business proposal,” Jonny Gould was told by his father. “But make sure there are no spelling mistakes and work out how much it’s going to cost you first!” The secret of my success: Simon Woodroffe We talk to Simon Woodroffe about life after Yo Sushi and the Dragons Den plus how he manages his business interests even during a financial downturn. Toni demonstrates why he’s a guy whose business is a cut above Italian Toni Mascolo opened his first hairdressing salon with brother Gaetano in 1963. Today, the Toni & Guy chain has more than 230 salons in the UK, a further 175 globally, and annual turnover in excess of £175m. The business runs 27 hairdressing academies globally, which train an average of 100,000 hairdressers every year. Mascolo received an Italian Knighthood in 2006 and in 2008, an OBE. The boys from Naples have done well. Communication is the key to global success, says WPP chief “To be successful you need to know how to handle the difficult stuff. It’s easy to make money when the tide is rising. In the 1990s you could be a success by simply walking into the office and standing up. It’s not like that now. Some people have the desire to start a business. Others are passionate about growing a business but it’s unusual to be both things. But that’s what I’ve done.” People confuse luck with skill on the way up – and down, says Stelios Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou founded easyJet when he was 28. Today, it operates 157 aircraft on 392 routes between 101 airports in 26 countries. In the past 12 months the firm has carried more than 40m passengers. But Stelios, as he prefers to be known, didn’t stop there. He has since established more than 17 ventures, all with the “easy” prefix. Flying high again: Barbara Cassani We profile the former budget airline boss says it’s people that make a business fly. Cassani came to prominence in the UK when she launched British Airways’ budget airline Go Fly in 1998. She later became the first leader of London’s bid for the 2012 summer Olympics and today she is executive chairman of hotel chain Jurys Inn, a business looking to expand by 30pc in 2009 regardless of the downturn Michelle Mone
Michelle Mone radiates confidence and force of will. When I meet her, one of the first things I notice is that she’s exceptionally attractive – she started her working life as a model.
But, as with so many successful business people, what really grabs you is her magnetic strength of personality. Even if you saw Michelle Mone from a hundred yards away, standing in a crowd, you would say that this was a woman who wanted to win, and win in a very big way.
“I don’t think there are any secrets to running a successful business. It really is a lot of common sense. Perhaps one reason I’ve done well is that I get stuff done. I do my homework, do my research, and then get committed. I’m cool, calm and critical. But when I make a decision I always follow it through.”
So says Deborah Meaden, the entrepreneurial investor on BBC TV’s Dragons’ Den. Meaden is portrayed as something of a sourpuss, but the reality couldn’t be more different.
We talk to Lesley-Ann Simmonds, Managing Director of Shoes Galore Limited in New Milton about her experience of taking part in the hit BBC2 programme Dragon's Den. Her experience is set to be broadcast on Monday 4th August on BBC2 at 9pm.
Shoes Galore is a franchise giving women the opportunity to work around their family commitments selling shoes, bags, belts and accessories mainly by party plan, at corporate’s, charity events and shoe fashion shows.
The Experience in Lesley's own words...
Profile: Mark and Mo Constantine Co-founders of LushThey met at Anita Roddick’s funeral. Clive Stafford Smith, founder of Reprieve, had a word with Mo and Mark Constantine, co-founders of Lush, about the plight of prisoners held without trial in Guantanamo Bay. “He had a slogan, Buy one, set one free. It was too good to miss,” says Mo. “So we came back and had a discussion as to whether we could do a campaign on that, and spent an interesting afternoon putting it together.” While all staff wore orange underpants with: “Fair trial my arse” written across the front, Mo, the company’s chief inventor and head of manufacturing and production, had created a product for the occasion – a bath bomb from which the faces of the two prisoners float out. “We got into a lot of trouble with that,” says Mark, smiling like a cheeky schoolboy. “The local MP thought it was in extremely bad taste. And they were very cross in Australia and we didn’t even sell it there!”
Profile: James Caan
James Caan is not a man to let the grass grow under his feet. By the age of 40 he was a self-made millionaire, having created and sold two executive headhunting firms.
But rather than sailing off into the sunset with G&T in hand, Caan has since graduated from the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School, become a mentor for MBA students at London Business School, and set up a private equity firm, which currently has four companies in its investment portfolio. Oh, and become the latest dragon on Dragon’s Den, where on top of filming obligations, he has already taken three entrepreneurial charges under his wing.
Jack Petchey OBE is a remarkable self made successful business man and entrepreneur, giving away his millions to help young people because he believes passionately that we all have a duty to give something back to society.
Jack, aged 82, was born in London’s East End into a loving but humble family. He left school aged 14 without any qualifications and after a stint in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, Jack went back to his job as a clerk but soon found that he was not rated very highly by his bosses and was told he would never make a successful businessman. Undeterred Jack went on to become one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Britain and a prominent businessman and property developer.
