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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Edition 84
We meet one of India’s most influential female entrepreneurs, test out a Cairo service hoping to use the Nile to power a new mode of urban transport, and ask the founder of Fiji Water why the humble ginger root is his newest venture. Plus, we get management tips from the…
Edition 83
We visit the tailors of Brazil who seem to get more business than anywhere in the world, look at a repair industry that’s grown up around New Zealand’s first and only manufactured vehicle – the Trekka, and visit a New York company that’s producing humble hoodies that last a lifetime.
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We take a tour with winegrowers in South Africa, meet a company that hopes the world’s solo workers will leave home to take a work desk at another company, and talk manufacturing with a woman who launched her celebrated handbag range with a budget of just £600.
Edition 81
We meet the minds behind iconic US heritage brand Filson, talk with the entrepreneurs who want to make Detroit a watch-making town, and ask a would-be Japanese footballer why he ditched the pitch and joined the family business: incense.
Edition 80
Business off the grid: we meet a US company bringing the power of the sun to those without, look into the Australian outback for an unlikely taste of 19th-century Spain, and meet an energy entrepreneur in the West Bank.
Edition 79
Music industry special: we discuss the branding of bands with three industry veterans, head to Greece to meet one of the last handmade-piano makers, see why one company wants to hold music performances in your living room, and chat with music entrepreneur Paul Benney.
Edition 78
A visit to a brewery in Accra to see how the city’s expanding middle class is developing a thirst for beer, we meet a family-run rollercoaster manufacturer in Italy with sights on China and Pyongyang, and investigate the building boom on a sunny Spanish island that’s not Mallorca or Ibiza.
Edition 77
We investigate the thriving startup scene in Medellín, find out what makes the perfect chief executive, and chat with Garrett Camp – the man behind a seat-sharing service for private jets.
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 overhaul.
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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 a Spanish company bringing rural foods to urban tables.
