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Tech’s £20 million question: what to invest in now?

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Media sector, Technology sector | Tags: Grant Thornton, technology, survey, report, video, insight, interview, analysis, trends, tech, voxpops, ICT, Phil Smith, Martin Balaam, TMC, Tony Henderson

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What does the future hold? We asked three technology business experts: if given £20 million to invest in keeping ahead of the tech market, where would they place their bets?

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Will King’s 12 insights into life as the King of Shaves

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Business advice, Retail sector | Tags: business, CEO, advice, insight, interview, leadership, Elevate magazine, stress, Will King, King of Shaves, entrepreneur,

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He went from redundancy in 1993 to razor-sharp entrepreneur after developing a shaving oil in his kitchen and founding the King of Shaves company. CEO Will King talks to Nick Huber about his pivotal career moment, leadership style, stress tactics and his next big ambition.

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What’s hot (and what’s not) in UK media in 2011?

Friday, March 18, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Financing , Media sector | Tags: Grant Thornton, report, data, video, interview, analysis, Richard Eyre, Mark Smith, Sam Groves, David Harries, voxpops, media, survey, Mark Cullen

Want to know where to invest and where to avoid in the UK media sector? We interviewed five media figures to get their thoughts.

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FD insight: interviews on the role of the modern FD

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Financing , Thought Leadership | Tags: Grant Thornton, survey, report, data, CEO, video, interview, FD, Directorbank, CFO, analysis, finance director, Swag Mukerji, John Pearce, Roger Matthews

Finance directors aren’t normally the face of the company but they are playing an increasingly critical role in its success, as our recent What makes an outstanding FD? report, researched in conjunction with Directorbank, shows. Here, we interview three business leaders – including Directorbank’s MD John Pearce (below) about the growing importance of the FD .

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CEO interview: Nick Robertson of ASOS

Friday, September 03, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Retail sector | Tags: business, entrepreneur, CEO, interview, online, retail, Nick Robertson, ASOS, e-commerce, shopping

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Since internet fashion retailer began 10 years ago,

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