Entrepreneurs

Cheltenham-based office services outfit Commercial Group (Commercial) is reaping the rewards after embarking on a programme to offset its carbon emissions. The company spent around £120,000 in trying to achieve a carbon neutral status.

Entrepreneurs

From meagre and untimely beginnings in recession-hit 1990, Karan Bilimoria tells GrowthBusiness how he has turned Cobra beer into a brand that is now sold in more than 45 countries.

Entrepreneurs

Wayne Hemingway and his wife Gerardine founded fashion label Red or Dead in 1982 and won the British Fashion Council’s Street Style Designer of the Year award three times in a row. After selling the company in 1999 they set up Hemingway Design, which focuses on affordable and social design.

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Serial entrepreneur and high-flyer Christian Nelleman founded XLN Telecom in 2002 to offer an alternative telecoms service for small businesses. The company’s growth was phenomenal, advancing 800 per cent in the first year and has continued in the same vein.

Entrepreneurs

You've worked your fingers to the bone to build up your business, so why not give yourself a well-earned treat - a convertible Aston Martin DB9 Volante, for example! Adam Wayland asks six successful entrepreneurs about the car they drive and whether they think it's an important status symbol...

Entrepreneurs

As an ex-miner with experience in the print industry, Stephen Armitage, managing director of digital photo wall-scape company Myfotowall, is both practical and creative.