Profile: Mark and Mo Constantine Co-founders of Lush

We talk to Mo & Mark Constantine. They are ethical entrepreneurs, passionate about their work and the causes they support, but they are no earnest “do-gooding” couple. Everything is done with a smile, a giggle, and a good dollop of irreverence.

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.

Profile: Jack Petchey

Business Matters magazine talks to Jack Petchey OBE, 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.

Profile: Eric Baker

Business Matters magazine finds out how following a dodgy encounter with a ticket tout intent on fleecing him for tickets to a Lion King concert, Eric Baker turned his back on the blue chips to enter the then murky world of secondary ticketing

Profile: Sir Alan Sugar

The multimillionaire businessman from the East End became an unlikely TV star in The Apprentice which returns this week for a fourth series. Some admire him. Some say he's a bully. And everyone thinks he's scary

Profile: Grant Bovey - Life long entrepreneur

Running a multi-million pound buy-to-let venture is not for the fainted heart. However, Grant Bovey explains to Ana Paula Nacif how he “stumbled into the buy-to-let industry” and how the challenge is anything but rewarding

Profile: Veu Chief Executive Tim Richards

Jo Russell talks to Tim Richards, the CEO of the Vue Cinema group about how he left the Hollywood party world to start his own cinema group above a shop in Chiswick.

No doubting Thomas’s appeal

From balance sheets to minature locomotives. Steve Hedin explains to Simon Clark how a life threatening illness led him to completely change his life from accountant to minature railway owner

Taking the leap of faith

Single-handily producing, packing, labelling and selling 4000 bottles of drinks a year is not for the faint-hearted. But for Rachel Birch, the rewards of being her own boss are worth the efforts. Here she explains to Ana Paula Nacif why she did it.

Profile: Brian Jokat

Brian Jokat, the business mind behind Skateco, tells Ana Paula Nacif how he risked it all to set up his own company and how he got an ice rink at the heart of Canary Wharf up and running in two months.