A green, eco-friendly business is brewing for Jonathan Adnams
By Kate Pritchard
A shrinking beer market and a downturn in consumer spending hasn’t stopped Jonathan Adnams, chairman of the eponymous Southwold-based brewery, from investing £10m in two new eco-buildings.

The most powerful woman in business
By Matthew Rock
She was the first to spot the move to healthy food. She calls PepsiCo the "world's smallest large company". And she may have her eye out for the food industry's next mega-deal. Meet the remarkable Indra Nooyi.

Will Gordon Brown do the business in China?
By Matthew Rock
UK businesses are exhorted to do more business in China. First, they must understand the cultural challenges.

Surviving due diligence
By Catherine Woods
Complete Care managing director Barbara Scandrett sympathises with other entrepreneurs knee-deep in due diligence as they try to sell their business.

The London Duck Tour’s guide to growing a business
By Kate Pritchard
Since taking over London Duck Tours, managing director John Bigos has doubled turnover and yanked the company back into the black. How? First off, he culled 50 per cent of the staff.

7 success tips for young entrepreneurs
By Kate Pritchard
Fresh out of university, he was made a director of his father’s family business. Now he’s running a £5m-turnover beauty products firm. Here, 30-year-old Simon Tate gives budding young entrepreneurs his seven top tips.

Green travel entrepreneur's big break
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
When Justin Francis set up responsibletravel.com in 2001, it was the first eco-travel company of its kind. It was also a dotcom in the wake of the crash. So just how did this fledgling company end up reinventing the tourism industry?

Creating the Boodles brand
By Kate Pritchard
How do you turn a “dowdy” corner-shop jeweller into an über-chic luxury brand with a celebrity following? Just ask Michael Wainwright, managing director of Boodles.

"Posh" jeweller needs girl power
By Kate Pritchard
Victoria Beckham loves his products. He turns over £45m a year and has built one of Britain’s best-known brands. But there’s one thing that Michael Wainwright, MD of Boodles, still desperately needs: a female director.

Getting Tony Blair as your adviser
By Matthew Rock
News out this morning that fTony Blair has picked up his first advisory role at JPMorgan. So how do you get top-notch advisory input?