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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 UK.
Tom Edwards and Fernando Augusto Pacheco bring you highlights from the past week on Monocle 24. We explore Helsinki’s Hotel Torni, sit down with The Drug Store co-founder Clemens Böninger and review ‘Adults’, the new novel by Emma Jane Unsworth.
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 in response to the demand for CBD-based natural remedies. Just around the corner from our Midori House headquarters you’ll find the first permanent location, a minimalist shop that resembles an art gallery.
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 35 countries. Maria started as a beauty writer for ‘Seventeen’ magazine in her native Athens before studying business at Columbia in New York. But after a short career in finance, she saw a niche for targeted skincare products and created Rodial.
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 while running ultra-marathons in extreme conditions. Today, leaning heavily on science and technology, their team creates pieces from materials most have never thought to use, from titanium to graphene.
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, was failing. Dan tells us how he convinced Grabble’s investors to refocus on Heights.
Raja Dhir is the co-founder of microbiome company Seed. Based in LA, Seed is a collective of scientists and doctors, researching how bacteria can improve human health and that of our planet. Its first product, a daily synbiotic, focuses on the stomach.
The team principal of six-time double-championship-winning Mercedes-AMG F1 discusses how to build lasting success with the CEO of Peek Vision – another of the inspirational thought leaders supported by UBS through its Global Visionaries programme.
Oliver Goffe co-founded the UK-based Marloe Watch Company in 2015 with Scottish designer Gordon Fraser, then a complete stranger. The pair didn’t meet in person until 18 months after they started speaking, and today they continue to work remotely on their range of smart mechanical watches.
Phil Cody launched the UK shoe brand Cody & Co in 2019. The company manufactures all its footwear in Sheffield, using traditional methods inspired by Phil’s favourite Italian brands.
Philip Chan is business development manager of Page Hotels, the Hong Kong-based company that’s just launched a new property in central London. We talk to him about the small details of his hotels and how to create a fresh concept in a crowded market.
Alexander Walton Masters is the managing director of The Out, an on-demand luxury car-rental company that exists to help Londoners escape the city. The company was born out of Jaguar Land Rover’s venture-capital arm InMotion, which incubates and invests in companies in the mobility space. From delivery to pick-up of its Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles, The Out aims to take away the usual pains of renting.
Twin brothers Byron and Dexter Peart, founders of fashion and accessories label Want Les Essentiels in 2006, are no strangers to launching a business. In 2019 they established Goodee, an online marketplace that sells sharp-looking, sustainable home goods that are ethically made.
Ellie Webb is the founder of Caleño, a non-alcoholic spirit inspired by the flavours and colours of Colombia. Since its launch in January 2019, the Bristol-based brand has sold almost 30,000 bottles of the juniper and inca berry alcohol-free spirit.
Carl-Magnus Norden is the CEO and founder of Volta Trucks, a Swedish company that’s developed an electric truck aimed at commercial use in dense urban areas. A serial entrepreneur, Norden came out of retirement in Switzerland to start the company.
Christian Pauzenberger is the co-founder of Vielö, the Austrian skincare brand behind a range of products made using liquid organic whey, a byproduct of the dairy industry. Launched in 2017, the company’s Whey Series is designed and produced entirely in Austria and includes a range of hand and body washes, and lotions. Sold directly to the consumer, and carried at select stockists, the certified organic products symbolise the circular economy model of business and production.
Chris Hall is the executive vice-president of Long Meadow Ranch, a family-owned California wine company and integrated agricultural business. Started after his parents bought the ranch in 1989, the company now runs four wineries, a restaurant, café and farmer’s market. As California now deals with the effects of climate change and widespread wildfires, Long Meadow Ranch has become a leader in environmentally friendly practices – also known as full-circle farming.
Martin Murray, founder and CEO of Austria’s Waterdrop, has created the ‘microdrink’: an effervescent, compact cube made of plant and fruit extracts that can be added to tap or filtered water. It’s a response to the large carbon footprint of the drinks industry, which ships glass and plastic worldwide.
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