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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.

Penny Power

Online social networking isn’t all about your gran keeping up with your kids on Facebook and Twitter. In fact, before any of these names really took off it was business that led the online social revolution.

The Cheerful Soul

For those whose only experience of the reality TV show The Restaurant is the series currently being aired on BBC 2, it may be hard to believe that the programme will produce a winner worthy of serious financial backing to open the restaurant of their dreams.

Adrian Moorhouse

When Adrian Moorhouse, the former gold medal winning Olympic swimmer tells EN ,“I think we have got a bit flabby, haven’t we?” it’s taken as an upfront, if slightly insensitive comment. Thankfully he’s not insulting our out-of-condition reporter but putting the state of British business into the context of a sporting challenge.

John Spanswick

John Spanswick thinks the construction industry gets a bad press. It’s got a lot to be proud of despite a tough 18 months and good PR will be crucial to riding out the storm, he tells EN, before addressing guests at the 20th anniversary event of construction PR firm Clare Communications at Manchester’s Imperial War Museum.

Edward de Bono

The word “guru” is one of the most overused in the English language. From PR to plumbing, it seems to be applied to anyone with a big enough mouth and a modicum of achievement to back it up.

Kavita Oberoi

Until last year Kavita Oberoi was a relatively anonymous – if successful – businesswoman and property investor, employing 25 people at the smallish healthcare IT business she founded in Derby in 2001.

John Calverley

John Calverley works for a bank. So why should we listen to a word he says?

Partly because his employer, Standard Chartered, was pretty much the only bank to emerge from 2008 smelling of roses.

Max Clifford

“Picture the scene," says PR legend Max Clifford as he takes to the stage in Manchester. "St George's Hill, Weybridge, where a lot of major stars live. It's about 20 years ago and the star that I was working with at the time had just finished some interviews for American television.

Tony Wheeler

Quite why it took Tony Wheeler so long to find a UK publisher for his autobiography-cum-corporate history book is baffling considering he’s spent almost 40 years nurturing what is now the world’s largest independent guidebook publisher.

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.

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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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