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They started out selling their home-made chutney to the WI and school fetes. Now two mums-turned-mavericks have clinched a big-bucks deal with Waitrose to supply their luxury range of Anglo-Indian sauces.
Starting out with just a tool kit and a van, Charlie Mullins has built a £15m-turnover plumbing business, unblocking drains for the likes of Jonathan Ross, Eric Clapton and Gordon Ramsay. His biggest regret? “I left school when I was 15. I wish I’d escaped much earlier.”
Employing a good finance director to keep a watchful eye on costs is the most important thing a fast-growing company can do, according to Vtesse Networks founder Aidan Paul.
Latest government stats would have you believe that the wave of Polish immigration is finally receding. Entrepreneur Steven Street thinks that’s a load of old tosh.
By Rebecca Burn-Callander - February 28, 2008 3:33pm GMT
It was pitched as a business phenomenon. Add your app. “Poke” your colleagues. Play Chess with clients. But now, we’ve gotta say – we’re just so over Facebook.
It was pitched as a business phenomenon. Add your app. “Poke” your colleagues. Play Chess with clients. But now, we’ve gotta say – we’re just so over Facebook.
On the day Heather Mills (just divorced from Paul McCartney) tells us that £35,000 a year isn't enough for four-year-old daughter Beatrice, Dragons' Den entrepreneur Peter Jones reveals how he'll be handling his kids' inheritance.
