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Peter Slowe in Mauritania

University don spotted gap in travel market

Geography lecturer Peter Slowe's company, Projects Abroad, offers hands-on development for gap year travellers

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Miss England - Georgia Horsley, Miss Northern, Ireland - Melissa Patton, Miss Wales - Kelly Pesticcio and Miss Scotland - Nieve Jennings
Michelle launches seven more Ultimo shops

Entepreneur Michelle Mone is to launch seven more Ultimo "shop in shop" lingerie boutiques in Debenhams stores

Entrepreneur 

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Thousands of SMEs risk identity theft

Organised criminals are now turning their attention from the well-documented personal identity theft to the corporate market

Julie Diem Le, Marc Demarquette and Rob Taub

Two years and counting

Follow the trials and tribulations of three distinct start-up companies

How I made it

Ricky Thomas. Owner of Petmeds with his dogs Barney and Monty in Greenwich.

Pet pills stave off going to the dogs

Founding Petmeds proved a worthwhile gamble for spread-betting tech chief Ricky Thomas

Whole new ballgame: ex-footballer Noel Parkinson now runs a £20m car firm

Drive helped injured footballer after career break

Founding auto company Wewillbuyyourcar.com was a new ball game for ex-professional Noel Parkinson

How a tax error kept me in business

Gary Brine, founder of B2B marketing agency Gyro International, on luck, research and the importance of client knowledge

The hard slog on the road to lots of readies

Perween Warsi, the founder of S&A Foods, on how she became the queen of chilled meals

Failure is always an option. Sir James Dyson on why engineering must change its own fate

Latest news

Notonthehighstreet.com founders Holly Tucker and Sophie Cornish

Niche players profit online

Internet retailers that have the basics right report booming business as sales slump on the high street

Sweet success: training manager Tony Salt of Swizzels Matlow with employees Magda Tkaczyk and Rafal Krysa

Training fosters happier workers

Investing in programmes to raise skill levels improves employees' motivation and staff retention

No seven year itch for SME owners

Entrepreneurs are likely to stay with their business longer than they are with their spouse

Working out well with the big guys

Small firms can thrive amid the corporate giants but make sure you don’t bite off more than you can chew

James Caan

How to minimise risk

James Caan's five part series on doing business in a tough climate

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EU sets out rules to ease red tape pain

The act says, wherever practical, it would use common starting dates for regulations and decisions affecting firms

Message in a bottle: Lindsay Cousins, right, oversaw production of the Feel Good charity running suit

Work experience kids can improve your firm

Student placements need not be a burden. They can make a valuable contribution

Royal Warrant – a peerage for trade

Christopher Ashton-Jones gives a personal appreciation of the granting of the honour

Small businesses say no to a dull office

Drawing inspriation from your workplace - Rose Gamble looks at companies that use creative design to fire up staff

Best 100 Companies

Find out who you should be working for with our list of the top employers

The Business Doctor

Paying tax on gifts | Orienation issues

Who is responsible for the tax on gifts and avoiding discrimination tribunals

E-mail etiquette | Close of business

Making sure that employees do not abuse e-mail and winding up a company that has been sold on

Exempting mobiles | Temporary fairness

Making company mobiles tax efficient and doing the right thing for seasonal workers

Tax and petrol perks | Employer responsibilty

Is car fuel benefit worthwhile and the first steps to becoming an employer

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Big win competitions for small businesses

Your chance to compete for some of the most lucrative entrepreneurial awards

Entrepreneur Challenge 2008

Pile of £20 (twenty pound note).

How you could win a share of £35million

Enterprise Clinic: The Experts 

Sam Kerr

Head of New Business for Bank of Scotland

Ben Fennell

Managing director of BBH London

Tony Cohen

Head of Entrepreneurial Business at Deloitte

Simon Hughes

Director for SME Business at Microsoft

Andy Lees

Heads private sector practice for Atos Consulting

The Sunday Times

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Top Track 100 - 2008

Britain's 100 biggest private companies ranked by sales

Jim Buckmaster, the CEO of Craigslist

The reluctant CEO

Podcast: Jim Buckmaster, the CEO of Craigslist, on MBAs, e-mail and useless meetings

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The Bank of Scotland
Corporate £35million
Entrepreneur Challenge

Bank of Scotland

Building on the huge success of 2007, Bank of Scotland Corporate is maintaining its reputation for being the Bank for Entrepreneurs with the Bank of Scotland Corporate £35 Million Entrepreneur Challenge.

The Entrepreneur Challenge closed for entries on 19 May and the short listing process is underway in each of the regions. Seven regional winners will then be chosen from the finalists with each winner receiving up to £5m funding entirely free of interest for 3 years and free of arrangement fees.*

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Bank of Scotland
Matt Riley

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National Winner 2007
Matt Riley,
Daisy Communications
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William Chase

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Midlands & Mid Wales
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Tyrrells Group Ltd
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Chris Howell

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South England & South Wales
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Drivetech (UK) Plc
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Ian Millner

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London
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Iris Nation Worldwide Ltd
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Michael Shand

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Scotland & Northern Ireland Winner
Michael Shand,
RB Farquhar (Manufacturing) Ltd
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