Or perhaps the CEO of a huge internationally renowned company, a mega-successful investor or the heir of an ultra-wealthy family. In recent years, however, there have been more and more examples of celebrities reaching billionaire status through a business they started as a consequence of their career in entertainment. These are people who don’t wear […]
Tipalti polled over 300 CFOs and CEOs across the UK, uncovering the key complexity drivers for the finance department following the pandemic, as well as what the greatest shifts of focus have been for CFOs and highlights the bigger demands placed on them by the CEO and board. Tipalti’s findings shed further light on how […]
Image by TechCrunch - 509306865DH00014_TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88464732 Medical start-up Theranos was founded by Holmes in 2003 and reached a $10 billion valuation at its peak in 2013 and 2014. The company claimed it would revolutionise the medical testing space with a new blood diagnostic technology that was capable of performing several tests on […]
If there are three words I have to choose to describe The Nautilus Maldives, they would be unscripted, spontaneous and liberating. It’s so much more than the next ultra-luxe Maldivian resort – it’s a place designed to remind you of and celebrate the freedom we often forget we have; the freedom to wake up without […]
For our September Brands on a Mission feature, we introduce you to Sprout World – a Danish company dedicated to developing sustainable and plantable tools. We hear all about it from its founder Michael Stausholm over the next few pages.
This month, we tell you about the amazing work done by the Blessings in a Backpack charity through speaking to its ex and current CEOs - Brooke Wiseman and Erin Kerr. Blessings in a Backpack is a non-profit organisation that offers access to weekend nutrition to kids who face food insecurity by providing them with a bag of child-friendly, satisfying, and healthy food.
In the UK, the probate genealogy industry is not held in the same respect as it is by the country's European neighbours in France and Germany, where the verification of estates by professional firms where someone has died without leaving a will is considered vital. And yet we step back from placing probate genealogy firms fairly and squarely within the estate administration process, writes Danny Curran, founder and CEO of Finders International.
Of course, it’s clear to see there have been losers and winners as well as businesses somewhere in between, but the exact impacts and rates of recovery and change vary according to industry. Not every business has managed to fulfil the demands of customers. Some were caught by surprise and failed to scale in time. […]
In September last year, multinational tech company Nvidia struck a deal with Japan’s SoftBank Group to purchase UK-based chip designer Arm Holdings. However, the proposed deal has sparked much concern. In April, the UK government announced it would be examining the potential sale of Arm on national security grounds. In addition to Musk, e-commerce giant […]
With over 27 years of experience across the media and entertainment industry, Shibasish Sarkar has produced more than 500 films, raking in over $5 billion in box office figures, along with more than 90 TV shows, and over 10 OTT series. As the Group CEO of Reliance Entertainment, one of the biggest international production houses […]
Image: Kindly granted by Valery Marchive (LeMagIT) - Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16228490 According to Bloomberg News, this most recent portion of the deal consists of around 5 million shares worth approximately $750 million. Part of the final payout is dependent on the company’s stock return over the past three years surpassing a minimum of […]
Business leaders have said that urgent changes to the visa system are needed as retailers struggle to keep shop shelves stocked, and restaurants run out of food and drink amid the supply chain chaos caused by Brexit and the pandemic. Earlier this week, it was reported that fast-food giant McDonald’s had run out of milkshakes […]
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