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Entrepreneurs Panel

Category: David Pollock

Pension planning?

David Pollock

Corporate hospitality

In these straitened times, a few well-placed vol-au-vents could loosen clients’ grip on their wallets. So how do you put on a do that does the business? EN presents ten things to think about.
You can’t take it with you...

...and it’s increasingly tricky to leave it behind too. EN explores the options for entrepreneurs who want to limit the tax they pay during their lifetimes and beyond.
Grey skies thinking

With social media making all the world a stage for the playing out of PR blunders, how do you minimise your exposure to slings and arrows of outrageous fortune? (That’s enough Shakespeare -ed.)...
Invoice finance

Factoring and invoice discounting have become mainstream sources of lending. What do entrepreneurs need to know before appointing a provider of this form of working capital?
The great divide

It’s a sad fact that as the Christmas holiday fades into memory many couples decide they’d like their marriage to become a thing of the past too. What do entrepreneurs in this position need to...

David Hughes sums up his entrepreneurial career to date thus: four spectacular successes and two failures. He founded the sports retailer Allsports and achieved turnover of £180 million before a vicious price war meant decline, administration in 2005 and a sell-off to rival JD Sports.

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