This is written by Sukhendu Pal, the chairman of management consultant Sirius & Co and an adviser to some of the world’s most valuable companies, as well as a lead mentor to Funding London’s 150+ ...

Stephen Bennington is the co-founder and CEO of Q5D, a Bristol-based robotics company aiming to automate one of the last stubbornly manual parts of manufacturing: wiring. “We’re aimed at trying to ...

AI is levelling the playing field in business, and in some ways, SMEs have advantages over large companies. That’s the view of César Cernuda, president of NetApp. The San Jose tech company has ...

Rural Shropshire is home to the UK’s last remaining producer of flat-rolled aluminium coils. Bridgnorth Aluminium employs over 330 people and has annual sales in excess of £230m, around 60 per cent of ...

Nadine Merabi used to play hockey professionally for England. Today, her global fashion brand, Nadine Merabi, has sales of over $50m (£37.8m) a year. Her designs have been worn on red carpets at ...

Britain will soon see its seventh prime minister in the space of a decade. It’s over for Keir Starmer; on 22 June, he announced his resignation, following a tumultuous leadership defined by a ...

Alidad Moghaddam knew his business was gaining real traction when he spotted a shop create a makeshift, handwritten sign for its window, saying it accepted Blue Light. Blue Light Card is the UK's ...

Vinted wasn't an overnight success. The game-changing decision that saved it from failure? Making selling completely free. Adam Jay, CEO of Vinted's Marketplace arm, talks to Sir Richard Harpin about ...

Across the UK, mid-market businesses are hungry for growth. According to new research from Pleo, 88 per cent of UK finance leaders say their business is scaling or planning to scale. The problem is ...

Kim Innes, the founder of the dessert brand Humble Crumble, recounts her extraordinary business journey to Sir Richard Harpin. It begins with tough shifts at a vendor's stall in Spitalfields Market in ...

“Windscreens are not a product that you wake up in the morning really excited about,” says Gary Lubner, “and say, ‘I’m going to go out and buy a windscreen!’ It’s a distress purchase.” By building ...

Chris de Lapuente, former Executive at LVMH and CEO of Sephora, played a pivotal role in scaling the business from €2.5bn to €16bn during his 13 years at the helm of the beauty retailer. He first met ...