Top 30 inspiring UK entrepreneurs - Business Leader
WEBApr 26, 2019 · 13. Brent Hoberman (Founders Factory) Brent Hoberman co-founded Founders Factory and Founders Forum to encourage and advance entrepreneurship in the UK through education and start-up/scale-up support. Beyond the Founders platforms, Brent Hoberman is a busy man. He co-founded lastminute.com, selling in 2005 for $1.1bn.
What is a disruptor? - Business Leader
WEBSep 27, 2018 · To be a disrupter is to create a product, service, or way of doing things which displaces the existing market leaders and eventually replaces them at the helm of the sector. Disruptors are generally entrepreneurs, outsiders, and idealists rather than industry insiders or market specialists. Disruptors are often linked to the fast-moving ...
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The rise and fall of the Yellow Pages - Business Leader
WEBFeb 22, 2024 · Yell described its performance in 2023 as “very disappointing”. The parent company of Yell – Yell Holdco Ltd – reported a 6% drop in annual revenues to £111m and a 44% drop in underlying profits to £13.4m for the year to the end of March 2023. The number of average monthly visits to the Yell platform fell 13.3% to 7.2 million.
What is the difference between ESG and CSR? - Business Leader
WEBSep 2, 2021 · Whilst ESG and CSR are both concerned with a company’s impact on society and the environment, the major difference between them is that CSR is a business model used by individual companies, but ESG is a criteria that investors use to assess a company and determine if they are worth investing in. There are studies suggesting that more ...
Disrupting the disruptors: Lessons from 5 businesses that failed to ...
WEBNov 24, 2023 · “Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” – William Pollard It’s not easy being a business leader. No matter the size of your business, disruption is the goal but it’s around every corner. What separates Blockbuster from Netflix,...
A conversation with billionaire Bassim Haidar about how he built …
WEBJames Cook. Published 6 July, 2022. Bassim Haidar is a Lebanese national, Nigerian-born self-made billionaire. Starting his first business at just 20 years old, Haidar has gone on to establish Optasia, a large telecoms provider which operates in 19 countries and plays a major role in infrastructure in Africa and the Middle East.
Biggest businesses that went bust due to COVID-19
WEBApr 1, 2021 · Debenhams. Debenhams was arguably the biggest UK business casualty of the pandemic. The 242-year-old department store chain announced the closing of its 124 stores at the end of 2020. The company went into insolvency in April 2020 and had been looking for a buyer since the summer. However, JD …
Who are the UK’s top 32 commercial property leaders?
WEBAug 24, 2021 · Melanie Leech. British Property Federation. As Chief Executive, Leech leads the organisation that represents businesses owning, managing, and investing in UK real estate – an industry with a market value of £1,662bn. The British Property Federation is one of the country’s most influential and high-profile lobby groups.
Almost 80 new businesses created every hour across UK in first …
WEBSep 9, 2021 · Josh Dornbrack. Almost 80 new businesses were created every hour across the UK in the first half of 2021, according to research by iwoca – one of Europe’s largest small business lenders. Analysis of Companies House data reveals that 340,534 businesses were registered in the UK between January and June 2021, an increase of 32% from 257,243 ...