While most of us now recognise that healthy eating, work-life balance and exercise make sense, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and intimidated about knowing where to start. So we, at the BDLN caught up with celebrity chef Melissa Hemsley who convinced us that you can improve health, productivity, relationships and outlook just by making a few simple changes…

The Pact Coffee Story: A Team On A Mission

Paul Turton - MD , Pact Coffee

Pact Coffee’s obsession with quality is the driving force behind every inch of its business. It’s a great example of how a powerful sense of mission gives organisations an immediate competitive advantage…

Six business lessons you need to succeed…

Keith Bradshaw - Founder , Listers

Former accountant Keith Bradshaw, 74, is one of Britain’s most prolific and successful entrepreneurs. Here are Keith’s top six business insights…

“Son, why don’t you just get a job?”

Ingvar Gudmundsson - Founder , SimplyBook.Me.

How Ingvar Gudmundsson ignored his Mum – and kept fighting during the wilderness years – to build a dotcom powerhouse…

Jacqueline Gold’s four tips for women in business

Jacqueline Gold CBE - CEO , Ann Summers

Jacqueline Gold CBE, CEO of Ann Summers, gives her 4 top tips for women in business exclusively to the BDLN…

What we can learn from the UK’s fastest-growing pub business

Chris Hill - Founder , New World Trading Company

New World Trading Company is the UK’s fastest-growing pub business. It has graced the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 list for three years, and appears in the top 10 of the Best 100 Companies to Work For. Chris has not only found a winning commercial formula but he has done so with a happy, motivated set of workers. We met with Chris to see what we could learn about how he’s achieved such success…

“How my family’s South London cash-and-carry inspired me to build a multimillion-pound tech start-up”

Vishal Marria - Founder , Quantexa

As a child in his parent’s humble shop, Vishal Marria, learned big lessons that have been fundamental to the success of his company, Quantexa…

“When you keep banging your head and it bleeds, stop banging and move on”

Sally Preston - Founder , Kiddylicious

How Sally Preston successfully bounced back from a decade of disappointment and frustration to build an extraordinary global brand worth £27m…

“I remember thinking: ‘I’ve hit rock bottom; things can’t get any worse’”

Andrew Tomlinson - Founder , Andrew James

Andrew Tomlinson suffered many years of abject poverty before building his £25m turnover company. His story demonstrates that businesses often mean so much more to entrepreneurs than mere commercial enterprises. They frequently come with part of the founder’s soul attached…

The amazing story of Britain’s most entrepreneurial accountant

Keith Bradshaw - Founder , Listers

He was a school dropout who became a trainee chartered accountant, before building several multi-million-pound companies, all while battling the effects of a life-threatening stroke. Keith Bradshaw has one hell of a story to tell…

“Forget about today. Ask yourself ‘Will your business still be relevant in three years?’”

Edwin Bessant - Founder & CEO , Ceuta Group

Do you remember Hannibal from the A-Team? Well, Edwin Bessant, CEO of Ceuta Group, is the Hannibal of the business world. And, just like George, his plan is coming together and he’s loving it…

The recipe that’s fired PureGym’s founder, Peter Roberts, to success in everything from nightclubs to gyms…

Peter Roberts - Founder , PureGym

PureGym is the UK’s leading budget gym with more than 170 sites and a turnover of £160 million. As a start-up that beat its original business plan budget by 200%, we had to speak to founder, Peter Roberts to understand just how he’s done it…

Business can learn a great deal from sport, especially when Saracens’ boss, Nigel Wray is the teacher…

Nigel Wray - Owner & Chairman , Saracens

Nigel Wray has achieved huge success in business: from pizza to property to publishing. Now as owner of Saracens Rugby Club the BDLN spoke to him about what the world of business can learn from the world of sport…

“We tell our staff what our senior partners earn”

Jane Kier - Senior Partner , Kingsley Napley

“We have an open and transparent culture…. blah, blah, blah.” Just another line spouted out by many firms. Here’s a good test… does your firm hide what its partners earn, or does it share the figures – bonuses, warts, envy and all? If these figures are kept under wraps, the chances are that openness might not be as embedded as they claim…

Don’t think ‘cold calling’ works? Think again…Six ways to master the art of target calling

Monique Griffin - BD Executive , PKF Cooper Parry

Cold calling has a bad reputation. A volume game driven by blunt sales targets and even blunter sales managers. But this is a world away from the hugely important and genuinely skilful art of proper telephone BD. It can bring in sales, build brands and open locked doors…

From ‘on the brink’ to ‘Britain’s best’: Why we can all learn from Julie Fadden’s miraculous resuscitation of SLH Group

Julie Fadden - Chief Executive , SLH Group

This is the fourth consecutive year that South Liverpool Housing Group (SLH Group) has topped The Sunday Times ‘100 Best Not-For-Profit Companies to Work For’ list. If you’re tempted to click elsewhere after reading the words “Not-For-Profit”, we’d urge you to read on…

Against all odds: The man who built a hotel empire from nothing but a dream and an iron will…

Surinder Arora - Founder & Owner , Arora Hotels

In the pantheon of British entrepreneurs to have navigated enormous, spirit-crushing roadblocks to turn their dreams into reality, one pushing for kingpin status is 58-year-old Surinder Arora – founder, owner and chairman of Arora Hotels. We spoke to him about his fascinating journey…

How a desperate 30-second chat with Boris Johnson on a London roundabout won Richard Corbett the multimillion-dollar deal of his life

Richard Corbett - Founder , Eyetease

Rarely is your future either made or broken by a chance 30-second chat with a stranger you’ve accosted. Especially when that stranger is Boris Johnson, the then London Mayor, who has no idea who you are or why you’re talking to him…

Riding the storm to take an SME from ‘S’ to ‘M’. How Simon Cashmore absorbed the sucker punches to keep on growing TCL Group…

Simon Cashmore - CEO , TCL Group

Simon Cashmore feels slightly fraudulent when people call him an entrepreneur. The reality, we suggest, is that Simon is just as entrepreneurial as anyone we’ve ever met…

5 questions you must answer if you think you’ve got what it takes to launch your own firm

Do you dream of setting up your own professional services firm? We spoke to five lawyers who’ve done just that to find out just what it takes…

Prioritise exercise and you’ll become a better professional (but a six-pack is not the goal)

Matt Roberts - Celebrity Personal Trainer

“Work out? Actually do some exercise? Ha! Don’t make me laugh. I’ve got clients hunting me down with pitchforks and a ton of new business to win.” We know it’s hard to find time to exercise, so we spoke to one of the country’s top personal trainers, Matt Roberts, to get some inspiration…

PKF Cooper Parry. Are they the rebels of accountancy?

Ade Cheatham - CEO , PKF Cooper Parry

PKF Cooper Parry, the ‘rebels of accountancy’. But there are rock-solid foundations beneath their insurgent image…

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