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From famous entrepreneurs to young entrepreneurs, Growing Business profiles the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs, female and male. We’ve spoken to fast-growing businesses across the country to bring you successful entrepreneur stories to inspire and inform. We look forward at the companies to watch in our ‘Ones to watch’ section, and look back at the early days of the UK’s biggest businesses in ‘Something got me started’. Young successful entrepreneurs are profiled in ‘Young Guns’, our annual list of the UK’s most exciting entrepreneurs under 35, and in ‘FGBA profiles’ you can read about which business entrepreneurs have won our prestigious Fast Growth Business Awards.
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Tamara Hill-Norton
The founder of Sweaty Betty on how Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant helped to boost trade
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Vince Cable: Britain is still a world-class destination for enterprise
The business secretary gives us his insight into the current business playing field
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Martha Lane Fox on adversity
Martha Lane Fox recounts how she dealt with the vitriol she experienced when Lastminute.com’s share price plummeted
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Helen Pattinson
How two lawyers became chocolate entrepreneurs following a trip to South America’s ‘Chocolate City’
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Mark Constantine
Mark Constantine, co-founder of cosmetics chain Lush, on staying true to his values and shunning the corporate pound.
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Greenlight
How Warren Cowan has made sure search engine marketing agency Greenlight has stayed a step ahead
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Aaron Chatterley
Why the founder of feelunique.com has a bad hangover to thank for his £20m cosmetics business
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How David Mitchell’s comic rants helped make Bulldog the UK’s fastest growing male grooming brand
Simon Duffy, founder of male grooming brand Bulldog, reveals how online TV shows fronted by Peep Show’s David Mitchell helped the business t...
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Martha Lane Fox
Once referred to, somewhat unflatteringly, as a dotcom dinosaur, Martha Lane Fox is instead leading the digital charge
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