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Simon Tate: What I wish I’d known when I started

Simon Tate took control of family pharmaceutical business Wallace Manufacturing Chemists at the age of 22. Seven years later, as managing director of spin-off Kew Health and Beauty, he’s providing bespoke luxury health, beauty, cosmetic and personal care solutions and the company reports year-on-year growth in excess of 85 per cent...

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David Williams: Reaching for the stars

Over the next two years, David Williams, who is founder and chief executive of Avanti Communications at just 37 years old, has €110 million (£66.2 million) to spend on launching a 2.5-ton satellite the size of a Land Rover Discovery.

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The Dalai Lama’s Book of Wisdom

The book: The Dalai Lama’s Book of Wisdom, by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Reviewed by: Dr Anthony Lovat, founder and managing director, O-Pro Mouthguards...

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Geoff Foster: Concerns about the UK economy

We ask Geoff Foster, market reporter at the Daily Mail, what currently concerns him about the UK economy...

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Good month for language entrepreneur

An entrepreneur who started his language venture from his bedroom has silenced the competition by scooping a cash prize..

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Techwatch – When viruses attack!

Computers used by businesses are attacked every 15 minutes by some form of malicious internet software...

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Mike Tobin: What I wish I’d known when I started

Charismatic Mike Tobin is CEO of data centre provider TelecityRedbus, as well as a member of the Magic Circle and one-time Father Christmas to a children’s ward. He joined Redbus Interhouse in 2002, grew turnover to more than £50 million and has now completed a reverse takeover with TeleCity Group. In 2005, the London Chamber of Commerce and Business awarded the company ‘Business Turnaround of the Year’...

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Peter Earl: My name is Earl

Every now and then I climb mountains’ is the kind of self-effacing comment you can expect from renaissance man Peter Earl, Harvard Kennedy scholar, UN adviser, pal of Bolivia’s Evo Morales, author of a textbook on cross-border takeovers, and now bringing power to emerging regions.

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