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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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Askar Sheibani
Why the Comtek founder didn't listen when he was told his business idea would never work
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Toptable: Karen Hanton
Dotcom survivor Karen Hanton on holding her nerve, celebrity shareholders and identifying new growth areas for restaurant booking site Topta...
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The Gym
How John Treharne plans to capitalise on the popularity of health clubs with a low cost proposition
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Driving through the recession: John Griffin
The Addison Lee founder, and bus lane rebel, on how he’s kept Britain’s largest minicab firm thriving through the downturn
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Harold Tillman
The rag trade mogul on losing a fortune, revitalising Jaeger and turning Aquascutum around
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Essence of the Entrepreneur Gallery 2009
An exclusive online gallery of Rankin’s portraits of 20 of the UK’s most innovative businesses
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Forward: Neil Hutchinson
How an affiliate marketing firm started on a £2,000 overdraft in a bedroom became a £57m web business
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Shiply.com
Shiply founder Robert Matthams tells GB why staying tight-lipped will keep Shiply ahead of an emerging army of copycats
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Bilimoria's fight to regenerate Cobra
The founder of Cobra Beer tells GB how he nearly lost his brand to the financial crisis and why he's doing things differently now
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Streetcar: Brett Akker and Andrew Valentine
Brett Akker on why his car sharing business is streets ahead of the competition
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