Entrepreneurialism
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Booming business
Promising start-ups are creating a buzz in Rotterdam, where disused port sites have been redeveloped. Monocle meets the entrepreneurs seizing opportunities in this newly revitalised Dutch city.
Rising talent
Bengawan Solo’s founder Anastasia Liew is keen to pass her legacy on to her son. But first, he must perfect the Singaporean bakery’s 100-strong product line of cakes and pastries.
Carrying the torch
Inspired by workwear and French craft expertise, L/Uniform is a new luggage start-up from Jeanne Signoles. The range of utilitarian bags aims to prove that the practical can also be beautiful.
Cut above the rest
Skilled craftsmen and quality products are to thank for UK scissor-maker Ernest Wright & Son’s century-long survival.
Down to a fine art
London gallery owner Stephen Friedman credits his success to his marketing background and a good eye. Here he reveals the secrets to running one of the capital's most respected and commercially successful art ventures.
Business
The creative agency reinvigorating Singapore's retail scene and Canada's digital leap forward.
Just the job
An inspiring business can grow from the simple thought of wanting to do something well. Learn a few tricks from 10 entrepreneurs who are doing it differently around the world.
Business
A former Portuguese sewing-machine factory that is now a business centre, a line of jeans made by ex-offenders and a new fleet of picnic boats in Copenhagen.
Good business
In the Chicago neighbourhood of Pilsen resides a community that is embracing the virtues of creativity, co-operation and commercial nous.
All hands on deck
Traditional gulet vessels from Turkey’s Bodrum Peninsula have long sustained the region's economy. Now, market changes spark fears for the future of the boat-making skills passed down through generations.
