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In 1991 Jo Fairley co-founded Green & Black’s which is now the world’s leading organic chocolate brand. Starting with just £20,000 of her own savings, Green & Black’s has grown into a brand worth approaching £100million worldwide in less than 20 years. Sold throughout the world, Green & Black’s has maintained its luxury cachet: for […]

Colin Stevens started selling bathroom equipment on eBay from home. Ten years later his business Better Bathrooms has grown into being the UK’s largest independent bathroom retailers

Alistair Callender is the founder of Gate 8 Luggage which offers a range of premium business Travel Bags carry-on luggage, that enables you to pack all your business essentials and business garments into one stylish and highly practical piece of Business Travel luggage. With Gate 8’s luggage you can keep your bag with you when […]

In 2005, Brad Burton was £25,000 in personal debt, delivering pizzas to keep his start-up marketing business afloat, whilst having to deal with his wife demanding that he “go get a proper job.” He ignored her and is now Managing Director of 4Networking, the fastest growing business networking organisation in the world – running over […]

A huge range of businesses choose Easyspace to help them get online – from sole traders, to family businesses to companies with hundreds of employees. Having a website brings many benefits to a business, as Easyspace customer Chris Grant found out. Chris set up a website with Easyspace in 2006 and his business Glasgow Parkour […]

Thousands of businesses choose Easyspace to help get them online. So we thought we’d introduce you to one of Easyspace’s customers: Caroline Chaplin who breeds micro pigs. Caroline’s business Petpiggies is based in Ridgmont, Bedfordshire. Before reading our blog interview with Caroline, please take a look at the short video we made:

Lee Bradshaw is the founder of Lifestylish.com, a website selling the very best in design led gifts, gadgets and homewares from around the world. Lee founded the business in 2010 with his wife Julie. He is very hands on, from sourcing new products, managing the website, processing orders and shipping them out on time. With […]

Bored after 14 years in the telecoms industry, Darren founded email marketing company Pure360 in 2001. Pure360 successfully scaled and became one of the top three specialist digital marketing firms in the UK, before Darren sold it for $7.8 million. In 2007, having suffered at the hands of traditional accountants, Darren turned his attention to […]

At the age of 23, Lara Morgan started her first business, Pacific Direct Ltd, manufacturing and distributing brand licensed toiletries and amenities to the hotel industry. Seventeen years later, in 2008, she sold her majority share for £20 million.

Carrie Green started her first online business, Easy Mobile Unlock, at the age of 20 whilst studying Law at the University of Birmingham. Within a few years she had taken it global, selling throughout the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Europe and receiving over 100,000 hits on the website every month. After feeling isolated running […]