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I loathe sales (except ours)

Wednesday, July 08, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Retail sector | Tags: entrepreneur, Ros Simmons, women in business, VIE at home, sales, Entrepreneur’s Diary

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Entrepreneur’s Diary welcomes CEO Alex Connock

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Media sector | Tags: Alex Connock, entrepreneurs, media, diary, Ten Alps, Digital Britain, Bob Geldof, Accountancy TV, Entrepreneur’s Diary

For 12 weeks, two CEOs – one male, one female – will be writing a behind-the-scenes of business diary for us. VIE at home’s

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Alex Connock to join our CEO’s diary

Thursday, July 02, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Media sector | Tags: Alex Connock, entrepreneurs, Ros Simmons, CEO, diary, Ten Alps, VIE at home

How does the boss deal with knockbacks, big wins or the daily grind? In Grant Thornton’s Entrepreneur’s Diary series, we’ll be getting inside the heads of two chief execs. Last week, we heard from

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Entrepreneur’s Diary – the recession challenge

Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Retail sector, Women in business | Tags: recession, entrepreneur, Ros Simmons, women in business, VIE at home, recruitment, maternity leave, management buy-out, downturn, consultants, commission, Entrepreneur’s Diary

Steering a business through a recession can’t be easy. So we asked our female CEO,

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British Library puts news from 1800 to 1900 online

Thursday, June 25, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Media sector | Tags: research, Protect Your Wealth, business news, database, banking collapse, financial panic, British Library, money crisis, newspapers

Want to put our current economic, business and taxation woes in context? Or might you just need some interesting business tales to tell over a client lunch? Then check out the British Library, which has put two million digitised pages from 19th-century newspapers online. For as little as £6.99 for a day pass, you can have an insightful trawl through the full texts of the business and financial news from as far back as 1800.

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Digital Britain report: business reactions

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Media sector | Tags: links, UK, Digital Britain, reaction, comment, broadband, White Paper, digital economy, Lord Carter

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Are we over the worst of the recession?

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Economy | Tags: business, recession, Alistair Darling, recovery, forecast, CBI, outlook, Mervyn King, Institute of Directors

In January business minister Baroness Vadera talked of ‘a few green shoots’ of recovery. This week chancellor Alistair Darling and Bank of England governor Mervyn King suggested a UK recovery as early as the end of 2009.

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Richard St John on why successful people fail

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Business advice | Tags: business, success, TED, productivity, Richard St John, Ted talks

It seems achieving success and doing well in business can be risky. According to marketer and success analyst

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Entrepreneur’s Diary welcomes CEO Ros Simmons

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
| Tags: Ros Simmons, women, income, VIE, Diary, Entrepreneur's Diary

For the next 12 weeks, we’ll be following two entrepreneurs – one male, one female – as they go about their work, delving behind the scenes of CEO life and seeing how they deal with the challenges of steering a business through the recession. First up is our female entrepreneur, Ros Simmons, co-owner of direct sales company

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Fons Trompenaars introduces My Big Decision

Thursday, June 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: My big decision | Tags: entrepreneurs, my big decision, elevate, cultural diversity, fons trompenaars

Ever looked back and thought, ‘That was the moment that changed my life’? In Grant Thornton’s new

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Better times on horizon - Entrepreneur Insight Survey

Thursday, June 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Thought Leadership | Tags: entrepreneurs, statistics, economy, survey, financial sector

Grant Thornton’s latest Entrepreneur Insight Survey was conducted at the beginning of the year and covered a period of severe financial crisis. The latest

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Women in the boardroom

Thursday, June 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Thought Leadership, Women in business | Tags: women, income, boardroom, international business report

A rise of only 1% from 2007 meant that just 66% of privately held businesses (PHBs) in the UK have women in the boardroom, according to the latest research from Grant Thornton.

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World View: Mexico - The land of close horizons

Thursday, June 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Financing , Environment | Tags: economy, international, financial crisis, employment, mexico, political instability

Entrepreneurs in Mexico face political instability as well as economic problems. Hardly surprising, then, that they take care of today and let tomorrow look after itself. How to manage the crisis? Hector Perez provides some insights.

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Acquisitions at lowest level since 1992

Thursday, June 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Financing | Tags: acquisitions, financial sector, government investment

Research from Grant Thornton revealed that in the first quarter of 2009 only 422 UK firms were the targets of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions with a total value of £54.1 billion. At 53%, this is about half the number recorded in the first quarter of 2008, when 791 transactions worth £23.1 billion were announced. The latest figure is the lowest deal number recorded since Q4 1993, when UK business were the target of 404 M&A transactions with a total value of £7.1 billion.

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