How to create a culture of innovation
If innovation feels risky, you’re doing it right. Here’s how to turn that risk into reward
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
13 October 2025
Consumer Trends
How Hair Syrup went from a viral TikTok to a multi-million pound beauty brand
After creating her own hair oil blends as a student, Lucie Macloud grew Hair Syrup into a multi-million pound business that she’s now expanding into Europe and the US
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
04 December 2025
HMV, Kodak, Nokia: How disruption undid these corporate icons
What went wrong at the market leaders who suddenly found themselves on the wrong side of history?
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Sarah Vizard
Date
15 September 2025
How Justin King rescued Sainsbury's
We talk to former Sainsbury's CEO Justin King about its turnaround, his rivalry with Tesco and chief executive Sir Terry Leahy and more
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Graham Ruddick
Date
25 February 2025
Beauty Pie founder: From facials with Madonna to consumer hits at Boots
Serial entrepreneur Marcia Kilgore shares how to develop original consumer products, hire the right people and much more.
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Dougal Shaw
Date
18 February 2025
How market research transformed Little Moons
Ross Farquhar, marketing director at Little Moons, explains how data-driven insights have become critical to the brand’s rapid growth and product development strategy
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Sarah Vizard
Date
06 December 2024
How to become a customer-centric organisation
True and lasting customer focus is very hard to achieve. So how can businesses make it a reality?
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Ellen Hammett
Date
11 November 2024
How to do market research well
Research should be the foundation of any growing business, but it is fraught with pitfalls that companies need to avoid
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Sarah Vizard
Date
28 October 2024
Building B&M: Speed, strategy and success
We speak exclusively to long-time CEO Simon Arora about the strategy behind building B&M and how it nearly all ended after less than a year
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Graham Ruddick
Date
15 March 2024
A look inside vinyl’s resurgence
Vinyl sales have been rising fast and new technology, including on-demand manufacturing, suggest its growth still has some way to go
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James Cook
Date
05 March 2024