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The Best Deal I Ever Did

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...

Fil Adams-Mercer reveals...

He might have a daft name but Parcel2Go’s founder is a proper old-school entrepreneur. EN wrestles with the bubble-wrap as Fil Adams-Mercer reveals…

Brian Hay reveals...

Brian Hay is ready to pounce when rival freight firm bosses lose their appetite for a fight. Elizabeth Donevan fiddles confusedly with a compass as Cardinal Maritime’s boss reveals…

Scott Fletcher reveals...

Meet the former child actor who’s in his sector’s second recession of the decade. Elizabeth Donevan pretends she knows blackberries aren’t just for eating as Scott Fletcher reveals…

Lucy Nicholson reveals...

Meet the entrepreneur on a mission to cool down stresses execs over a hot stove at her base in Cumbria. EN reaches for the blue plasters as Lucy Nicholson reveals...

Independent schools

Have private schools been given six of the best by the recession? EN examines the real bottom line.

Keystroke cops

These days the data held on your computers could be worth more than the hardware itself. So what can you do to make it more secure?

Pigs in lipstick?

Examples of impressive business sales were thin on the ground in 2009 but this year could see that change – if sellers get their presentation right.

Ad its chips?

During the recession marketing budgets have migrated onto the internet at a rate of knots. What has the impact been? EN investigates.

Barring a miracle

The economy might still be limping along but at least gold traders are making a mint. EN discovers how the inflation of a bubble is spawning a glut of new businesses.

Five Minutes With

Nick Anstee

London has two mayors. One, a mop-topped former journalist, wields more power than anybody outside the Cabinet and many within it. The other, a sober accountant, spends a significant proportion of his year in office jetting around the world telling anyone who will listen what jolly fine chaps our bankers really are.

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Chris Arnold

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

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