A hundred years ago, it would have made no sense to wish somebody a “nice weekend”. There was no “hump day” to give colleagues a mid-week morale boost because there was no defined end to the working ...

When Hair Syrup founder Lucie Macloud first told her parents she planned to start selling hair oils, their response was swift. “They said, ‘you won’t be doing this under our roof’,” she recalls, ...

The head office of Nails.INC in Mayfair, London, is filled to the brim with cosmetics. Boxes of nail varnishes, gels and countless other products are stacked high as I step onto their floor of the ...

Rio Ferdinand is a legend at Manchester United football club, where he played from 2002 to 2014 and won six Premier League titles. He is also one of England's most decorated international players.

“We see that our strongest advocates aren't our customers for whom things have just always gone right. They are customers where things have gone wrong and we have gone the extra mile to do something ...

“If you pitched the idea of The Social Hub on Dragons’ Den, I think the Dragons would have a few questions,” says Abdul Eneser, with a wry smile. He is a final-year law student at the University of ...

When I started as a B2B marketing manager at a recruitment agency, the first task was to build the company’s presence on social media. I spent weeks creating Canva graphics, taking team photos and ...

Retire at 70. It’s not a welcome message for anyone who’s already worked for the best part of half a century. Yet it’s one that was recently delivered to workers across Denmark. With Britain’s state ...

Many people have heard of the WD-40 aerosol product and keep a can of it in a drawer at home, or perhaps their garage, but few understand what exactly it is. WD-40 stands for water displacement, 40th ...

“Begin with the end in mind” may sound like a line from a self-help book, but when it comes to selling your business, it’s the best advice you’ll hear. Chris Spratling knows this first-hand. With more ...

“I’m amazed at the different relationship Gen Z and young people have to going to the gym,” says Will Orr, who became CEO of The Gym Group in 2023. Going to the gym felt like a “chore” when he was ...

Caroline Seton is the co-founder of Forest, which operates an ebike sharing scheme. It was founded in 2019 and now has more than 15,000 ebikes in London. Her secret is that start-up founders need to ...