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Harold Tillman is the new owner and chairman of iconic British fashion brand, Jaeger – one of his latest ventures in a career spanning forty years. Here, Tillman gives the low-down on his success story.
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From tea boy to head of a multi-million pound retail empire and star of the BBC’s Dragon’s Den, Theo Paphitis shares some of the hard-won wisdom that has taken him to the top.
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A Miele is still running the company co-founded in 1887 by his great-grandfather. Markus Miele explains how he keeps manufacturing at home in high-cost, highly regulated Germany.
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As the effects of the recession linger, Bosch Group CEO Volkmar Denner talks to Barry Mansfield about the company's soon-to-be recharged working culture, and the role of state-of-the-art CRM tech.
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Keeping shoppers, staff and shareholders sweet requires a personable approach to business - a concept close to Paul Polman's heart. Barry Mansfield reports on the Unilever CEO's expansion plans.
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How a CEO responds to misfortune, and how well the organisation bounces back as a result, is a true test of their worth. Barry Mansfield talks to Sergio Marchionne, chief executive of Fiat.
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With the fast-selling Centro and upcoming Nova II OS, Palm's president and CEO Ed Colligan aims to turn around the struggling handset maker. Barry Mansfield meets the man ringing the changes.
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Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, has turned the company he founded into the world's largest online retailer. Barry Mansfield examines the radical thinking that helped Amazon to the dominant position it occupies today.
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Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis revolutionised telecoms with Skype, which they sold to eBay for a whopping £2.6bn in September 2005. Now they are set to rewrite the rules of the TV industry.
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The outsourcing stereotype was turned on its head by Tata Consultancy Services and its unusual approach. David Power of TCS's UK arm, Diligenta, is leading his company into the top ten.
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