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The Best Deal I Ever Did

Noel Dean reveals...

Betta Living’s boss reminds us a bit of TV’s David Dickinson. But was his best transaction the Real Deal? Stuart Anderson hastily conceals his Ikea loyalty card as Noel Dean reveals...

Charles Woolley

There was nothing Woolley about Charles’s decision to buy into Asda in 1993. Elizabeth Donevan discreetly fills her handbag with sachets of ketchup as the founder of Rectory Foods reveals...

Nick Porter reveals

Not only has corporate events company Fresh grown during the recession but it pulled off a corking commercial property deal just as that market was collapsing. Elizabeth Donevan makes friends with the champagne waiter as co-founder Nick Porter reveals...

Peter Blezard reveals...

He’s the biotech entrepreneur who is taking agriculture by storm. Elizabeth Donevan dons her gardening gloves and checks her wellies for spiders as Peter Blezard reveals...

Chris Arnold

Elizabeth Donevan packs her spotted hankie and sticks a pin in a map as Smaller Earth boss Chris Arnold reveals...

Richard Tang reveals

He set up in 1994 with £20,000 borrowed from friends and family and now turns over £38 million. Elizabeth Donevan takes up the lotus position and prepares to be enlightened as Zen Internet boss Richard Tang reveals...

Liz Taylor

Elizabeth Donevan dons the sequins and goes star spotting as party planning prodigy Liz Taylor reveals...

Gary Manning

Elizabeth Donevan eyes the specials board longingly as 60 Hope Street’s Gary Manning talks guardedly about a decade of restaurateurship in Liverpool...

Stephen Critchlow

It took him ten years to write a business plan for the IT firm that was a sideline to his Pharmacy career but both interests eventually led to the deal of his life. Elizabeth Donevan waits for the men in white coats as Ascribe boss Stephen Critchlow reveals...

Paul Mizen reveals...

He’s gone from a fruit and veg barrow in Southend high street to supplying national firms with local produce via a single website. EN reaches for the dessert trolley as E-foods boss Paul Mizen reveals...

  • Fat camps

    Turning excess lard into dough? It’s like taking candy from a baby. EN heads to the fit farm and examines a bulging bottom line.

  • Angels with dirty faces

    EN visited the British Business Angels Association’s annual conference and found a sector torn between confidence and crisis.

  • Slick moves

    Are we emerging from recession into an energy crisis? Probably not, as EN discovers.

  • The unavoidable truth

    EN and Downtown in Business hosted a wide-ranging panel debate following June’s emergency Budget. This is what happened.

  • Day nurseries

    Making money out of nurseries should be child’s play. Shouldn’t it? EN examines the real bottom line.

Five Minutes With

Frank McKenna

Frank McKenna has never exactly been shy about being the public face of the Downtown in Business brand, which he founded in Liverpool in 2004 and now boasts operations in Preston and Manchester (the latter launched earlier this year). His weekly, “Thank Frank it’s Friday” email missives, “Frankie Says” blog and Tarantino-inspired advertisements are cases in point.

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Noel Dean reveals...

Betta Living’s boss reminds us a bit of TV’s David Dickinson. But was his best transaction the Real Deal? Stuart Anderson hastily conceals his Ikea loyalty card as Noel Dean reveals...

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