George Toursoulopoulos is looking out of the window, watching a man unloading heavy bottles of water from a van in the street outside. “Look at how hard that guy is working,” he says. “Wouldn’t it be great if there...
Turning thirty can often be a milestone for an entrepreneur, but for Matt Parkinson it had a special significance. His ambition when he first went into business was to retire at that age. As it turned out, the milestone in...
There's a reason why a particular project is dear to the heart of Somayeh Aghnia, chief executive of Geeks, the software development company she co-founded with her husband. "When we arrived from Iran to do a masters degree...
Alcohol distribution laws and agreements cover a range of rights and obligations and often extend to cross-border and competition issues. Disputes with alcohol distributors, as well as suppliers, manufacturers and producers,...
The Tenant Fees Act 2019 may be welcome news for tenants but not such good news for landlords. The new rules, which came into force on 1 June 2019, are aimed at ending unfair and disproportionate administrative fees that...
The UK boasts one of the world’s strongest creative sectors with a wide range of creative industries such as literature, music and film, theatre, ballet, art and sculpture. Anyone who has created an original literary,...
When economic conditions become challenging or you plan to take your business in a different direction, you are likely to review your staffing arrangements. If you are thinking of restructuring your business and will need to...
Behind the Georgian façade in the high street of a sleepy village is the hub of quite an international technology empire. Agency Software Worldwide have clients in more than twenty countries for their Paprikia products...
The UK’s decision to leave the EU has led to uncertainty for many UK businesses and the outlook remains unclear because of the continued uncertainty over the type of ‘Brexit’. Some businesses are already moving...
Arguably it’s a modern day version of ‘from little acorns mighty oaks grow’. Software developer XperiSoft came out from what was “basically a whiteboard session” - an idea that survived when others were...