In elite sport, athletes rarely just practise their skills. They practise for the conditions. Part of Team Europe’s preparation for last year’s Ryder Cup involved wearing VR headsets. Why? To simulate ...

Founder Laurence Newman explains how more than a decade of patient growth turned a Manchester start-up into a newly listed global beauty technology company ...

The UK economy was stagnant in January, the latest ONS figures have revealed. Economic reality isn’t keeping up with the upbeat growth narrative we’ve heard from politicians. To change this picture, ...

What does growth really look like in today’s UK economy? The Growth 500, compiled by Business Leader, offers a rare, data-led answer and it challenges many of the assumptions about how businesses ...

Billionaires have begun to invest in unknown companies with the promise of anti-ageing. The likes of Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and Bryan Johnson are reportedly set on living forever. Historically, rich, ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) then revealed its economic forecasts for the next five years. Amid the “keep calm and carry on” posturing from Reeves, the UK’s official forecaster revealed ...

Nick Grey is the founder and owner of Gtech, which specialises in cordless household appliances. It started out with vacuum cleaners, but has since expanded into products including hedge trimmers, ...

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses,” Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, once quipped. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, didn’t conduct focus groups ...

The story of The Body Shop has never lacked for twists and turns. It was founded by an activist entrepreneur, Anita Roddick, who disliked the cosmetics industry and the business status quo in equal ...

Established in 1998 by Richard Reed, Adam Balon and Jon Wright, Innocent Drinks started out selling smoothies at a music festival in London. From these beginnings, it has grown into a global ...

In less than 10 years, founder and CEO Greg Jackson has powered Octopus Energy from plucky green start-up into the UK’s largest domestic energy supplier. There are now almost 13 million household ...