The penultimate episode saw the teams challenged with creating an affordable luxury brand.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
The Apprentice, week ten: The Real Deal
With only seven candidates and three tasks remaining, the competition is really starting to hot up and that can mean only one thing… pressure.
Nick Clegg has lost the plot with his ‘social mobility strategy’
This is the stark warning from Will Davies co-founder of aspect.co.uk – London’s largest Property Maintenance and Refurbishment Company.
Cable in danger of becoming the ‘No-Business Secretary’
Let me offer support for the Venture Capitalist who has condemned Business Secretary Vince Cable as not being fit for office who is not supporting business.
Apprenticeships should become more relevant & beneficial
The Financial Skills Partnership has praised a parliamentary committee for bringing to the fore the debate on the improvement of apprenticeships.
The Apprentice Week Nine: Best of British
This weeks task could be considered extremely topical, to effectively rebrand and re-launch an entire industry via a multimedia campaign. The industry being English sparkling wine.
The colour of money: What the Cardiff City rebranding proposals teach us about marketing
What can businesses learn from the proposed rebrand of Cardiff City FC?
Laughing All The Way To The Banksy
When you know very little about art or more specifically, urban art, the prospect of choosing the works of two artists to display and sell in a gallery must be very daunting. It’s a good job then that there were two art experts still on the Apprentice and that’s exactly what this task entailed.
‘Crooks in Suits’ force business to get credit hit from high interest lenders
I blame bankers for driving business to high interest loan companies to source finance.
Don’t look back in anger at rear-view recession – focus on the future
We cannot allow the rear view mirror economics that has put the UK into a double dip recession should not sculpt how businesses run their operations.
Bring Back National Service
Simon Swan Co-founder of Hiring-Hub.com, a multi-award winning web-based SaaS platform that is turning the world of recruitment tackles the problem of youth unemployment
Will HMRC reforms really make a difference?
HM Revenue and Customs has been seen as the scourge of entrepreneurs for some time – but will the Government’s budget pledge of reforms lead to the real shake-up business groups have been demanding?
Banks: Open up our financial data & let us grow our businesses
Duane Jackson, CEO and founder of KashFlow has written to the heads of Britain’s banks, urging them to grant small businesses secure access to their own financial data. Duane warns that a failure to do so is placing many UK small businesses, and therefore the British economy, at enormous risk.
Am I faking it?
With so many individuals starting businesses day after day, how many of them are faking their credentials? Am I faking it?
Why don’t graduates consider careers with SMEs?
For students and graduates to consider working in entrepreneurial companies as a career option, they need greater exposure to the SME community, says Rajeeb Dey, founder and CEO of Enternships.com.