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The Entrepreneurs

A weekly deep dive into global business. Inspiring stories from startups to legacy brands in hospitality, design, fashion, and retail.

Latest Episodes

#76 27 Mar 2013

Edition 76

Footwear: we meet the CEO of a Mallorca company whose motto is “Imagination Walks”, head to a factory in northern England creating trainers for Asia’s style-conscious buyers, and give Germany’s Birkenstock sandals a branding…

#75 20 Mar 2013

Edition 75

This week we go back to the land – the town of Lumberland in New York state to visit a company making beautiful axes, we talk land rights in the West Bank, and discover…

#74 13 Mar 2013

Edition 74

We meet São Paulo entrepreneurs who are carving (or painting) a niche in the world’s second-largest beauty market, head to Freemans Bay in New Zealand where a small clothing brand is going after worldwide…

#73 06 Mar 2013

Edition 73

Social entrepreneurship: we tour a historic refuge for London’s dispossessed that doubles as a sumptuous private members’ club, learn how recycling newcomers TerraCycle turn Hungarian waste into profit, and see how women in Afghanistan…

#72 27 Feb 2013

Edition 72

We analyse a prototype for the perfect salesman, head to Germany to taste-test a popular soft drink, and visit the Basque Country to check out a co-op that’s stuck to a slow, steady, and…

#71 20 Feb 2013

Edition 71

Wellness special: we visit a new women-only club in London, get management tips from the founder of swimwear label Orlebar Brown, meet the makers of a skin cream for skaters in Melbourne, and do…

#70 13 Feb 2013

Edition 70

We visit Louis XIV’s favourite candle maker to see how they’re plying the wax trade in the 21st century, meet a radiologist-turned-designer who explains the medical influences on her work, and ask how a…

#69 06 Feb 2013

Edition 69

We meet the inventor of a new silicone-based material, visit a business in East London that’s teaching people how to build electronics and chat with a man who thinks applying Stanislavski’s theory of theatre…

#68 30 Jan 2013

Edition 68

We meet the mind behind Wantful – a service to find the perfect gift – and look at the upper echelon of the hairdressing industry, while Gillian Dobias visits Paperworld in Frankfurt.

#67 23 Jan 2013

Edition 67

We meet the head of the family-run Benetton company, speak to the director of the International Trade Centre about her mission to represent small businesses worldwide, and visit a company using a novel approach…

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