Stephen Bennington is the co-founder and CEO of Q5D, a Bristol-based robotics company aiming to automate one of the last stubbornly manual parts of manufacturing: wiring. “We’re aimed at trying to ...

Kai Feller learned to code as a student and, with his co-founder Andrew Michael, saw a gap in the market in 2015. What if they could create a kind of “Amazon for services”? He explains in detail to ...

Phil Bentley leads the Mitie Group, which employs around 90,000 people in a range of roles covering services, such as public security and facilities management. For example, it provides in-store ...

The BT Group can trace its origins back to the Electric Telegraph Company in 1846, meaning this year British Telecom celebrates its 180th anniversary. It does so with Allison Kirkby at the helm, its ...

Sam Stoffel studied film at Leeds university but always had an itch to become an entrepreneur. After graduating, he found himself broke and living on benefits, so he began searching for a viable ...

He leads a US tech firm valued at close to $8bn, but Sanjay Poonen puts his success down to a major career setback. Poonen is CEO of US cybersecurity and AI company Cohesity, based in Silicon Valley.

Must Have Ideas is one of the fastest-growing online retailers, shipping around 7,000 items a day, with products ranging from mould-cleaning brushes to adjustable tables. It hangs its customer ...

A decade ago, Leicester City beat 5,000-to-one odds to win the Premier League, British Home Stores entered administration and the world mourned the loss of music icon David Bowie. However, for the UK, ...

Rural Shropshire is home to the UK’s last remaining producer of flat-rolled aluminium coils. Bridgnorth Aluminium employs over 330 people and has annual sales in excess of £230m, around 60 per cent of ...

Having come through a rigorous judging process featuring judges such as Gallagher’s managing director Andy Ferguson, Heat Recruitment CEO Steve Preston, Ovo’s Alison Jaap and Strike Communications MD ...

Nadine Merabi used to play hockey professionally for England. Today, her global fashion brand, Nadine Merabi, has sales of over $50m (£37.8m) a year. Her designs have been worn on red carpets at ...

“Storytelling is an undervalued skill in business,” says Matt Pohlson. It turns out it’s a skill that has been key to Omaze’s success. Omaze offers prize draws for dream homes, rather than cash ...