Tag: business
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Small business in the spotlight … Katie Leamon luxury cards & stationery
Since launching in 2011, the business has gone from handprinting cards on the kitchen table to being stocked all over the world
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How we made the Brompton folding bike
Andrew Ritchie, inventor: ‘I set out to make a magic carpet you can keep in your pocket. It’s been a perilous journey’
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Britain’s craft boom produces new model artisan army
From furniture to ceramics, small-scale businesses – all 12,000 of them – are satisfying consumer demand for ethical, handmade goods
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Oceans are world’s seventh largest economy worth $24tn, says WWF report
Vast economic worth of world’s oceans includes fishing, tourism and shipping but is declining due to pollution, climate change and overfishing
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The good, the glad and the celebrities: Burberry hails return of the poncho
British fashion house thanks spaghetti western-style reversible garment for 9% growth in like-for-like sales in past year
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Extra virgin ‘100% real’ olive oil goes on sale in UK
French Querubi oil, claiming to be produced without insecticides or fertilisers, aims to stand out in an industry plagued by fraud