The Entrepreneurs
A weekly deep dive into global business. Inspiring stories from startups to legacy brands in hospitality, design, fashion, and retail.
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Surviving a crisis
Around the world and across all businesses, we are living in difficult times. Business leaders are trying to answer a long list of pressing questions. How will our firm secure revenue to keep the…
The business of reducing food waste
Every year more than one billion tonnes of food produced for human consumption is estimated to be wasted. We meet two women leading the fight against such waste: Mette Lykke from Copenhagen-based Too Good…
Corpus
JP Mastey is founder of unisex-natural-deodorant brand Corpus. Mastey is the former owner and president of Baxter of California, the premium men’s grooming and skincare brand he bought in the year 2000. He left…
Allplants
Jonathan Petrides is the CEO of Allplants, a vegan food business that he co-founded with his brother Alex. Since launch in 2017, the company has cooked and shipped more than one million meals across…
The Drug Store
Clemens Böninger is co-founder of The Drug Store, an upscale London-based retailer focused on CBD products with locations in Marylebone and the City. Clemens started in the medical marijuana market, but shifted his focus…
Rodial
Maria Hatzistefanis is founder and CEO of Rodial, the skincare brand she launched in 1999 with a small investment. While raising a family and writing two books, Maria has managed the company’s expansion into…
Patch
Freddie Blackett is the co-founder and CEO of Patch, the London-based online garden centre launched back in 2015. Patch helps customers find and choose the right plants for their space and then delivers them…
Vollebak
Steve Tidball is the CEO and co-founder of Vollebak, a men’s outerwear label launched with one question: what does the future of clothing look like? Steve and his brother Nick dreamed up the brand…
Heights
Dan Murray Serter is the co-founder of London-based Heights, which manufactures a multivitamin aimed at improving brain function. Heights came about as Dan struggled with insomnia and his previous venture, the mobile-shopping platform Grabble,…
