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Business Leader

Business Leader

Business Leader"s team of top journalists - Graham Ruddick, Sarah Vizard, Josh Dornbrack, Dougal Shaw and Lucy McPhee - look at stories of success and failure, provide masterclasses from world-leading experts and guide you through what matters in the business world Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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32:47

Airbus

Business Leader ·

2024/07/23

Airbus is one of the biggest manufacturing businesses in the UK, Europe and the world. In this episode of Business Leader, we look at Airbus's business in the UK, its commitment to manufacturing in the country and its concerns about the geopolitical situation. We speak to John Harrison, the chairman of Airbus UK, the most senior Brit in the company and also its general counsel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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47:19

Sage and Steve Hare: The story behind a UK tech success

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2024/07/16

Sage is exactly the sort of company the UK needs more of. It is the biggest UK technology company on the stock market and is valued at more than £10 billion. Not only that, but it is based in Newcastle and outside the south-east of England. This is the story behind how it went from a promising business to a FTSE 100 giant and the leadership of chief executive Steve Hare, who rebuilt his career after being told he would never work in the City again... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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43:44

How the UK became a world-leading hub for motorsport...

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2024/07/09

David Richards has built successful teams in rallying, Formula 1 and business. This is the story of how he built Prodrive, which became a world leader in motorsport and advanced manufacturing. Why is the UK so successful in these industries? What can other businesses and industries learn from this? And how do you manage Formula 1 drivers and factory workers? You will find the answers in this episode of Business Leader Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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32:57

Eventbrite with Dougal Shaw: A new way to buy tickets

Business Leader ·

2024/07/02

In 2006 Julia Hartz started a company with two co-founders in Silicon Valley. They wanted to shake-up how people bought tickets for events through using mobile phones and QR codes. Eventbrite started by facilitating meet-ups in the tech community. But last year it issued more than 300 million tickets for 5 million events around the world and the company was valued at more than $1.8bn when it floated on the stock market in 2018. In this episode of Business Leader, Julia Hartz, the chief executive of

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53:06

Mark Beaumont: The record-breaking cyclist who became...

Business Leader ·

2024/06/25

How do you turn a bold idea into reality? How do you deliver when things get really hard? Mark Beaumont might be the expert on this. Anyone can come up with an idea and anyone can talk about performing at a high level. But Mark Beaumont has delivered on both. He holds the world-record for cycling around the world and has now turned his considerable skills to being a venture capital investor. But that is only part of his remarkable story, which also includes capsizing in the Atlantic Ocean, making

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37:13

Motorway with Dougal Shaw: The story behind a British...

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2024/06/18

In 2017 Tom Leathes decided it was time to give the second-hand car market a digital update. With his two best friends and long-time business collaborators, Alex Buttle and Harry Jones, he co-founded Motorway. Investors spotted the potential and by 2021 the company was another British unicorn, valued at more than $1bn. The platform handled £2.2bn worth of transactions in 2023, helping customers sell their second-hand vehicles to a network of more than 5,000 verified car dealers. The three

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57:16

Lord Mark Price: Waitrose, working in government and...

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2024/06/11

Lord Mark Price spent more than 30 years working for the John Lewis Partnership, including eight years as the boss of Waitrose. He then joined the government as trade minister before founding his own business, WorkL, which tracks the happiness of employees. In this episode of Business Leader we explore what he has learned about running a business as well as the past, present and future of the John Lewis Partnership, and why businesses are underestimating the importance of their staff being happy

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24:54

Travel Counsellors: The best reviewed company in...

Business Leader ·

2024/05/21

The story behind Manchester-based travel company Travel Counsellors and why it might be the company with the best reviews in the UK. Steve Byrne, the long-serving chief executive, explains why customers and staff rate it so highly, why you may not have heard about the company until now, and why it has ambitious plans for the future. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit offtolunch.substack.com

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40:07

IWG and Mark Dixon: Highs, lows and the future of work

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2024/05/14

In 1989, Mark Dixon had an idea - the traditional office didn’t work for many businesses and they needed something more flexible. More than 30 years later, he has been proved right. IWG, the business he founded, is now worth more than £2 billion and runs 4,000 serviced offices around the world, which millions of people use to do their jobs as flexible working has taken off. But it has been a challenging and sometimes lonely battle to get IWG to this point. This is a story that involves rapid growth,

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33:43

Virgin: How do you manage one of the most famous...

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2024/05/07

Josh Bayliss was appointed as the chief executive of Virgin Group by Sir Richard Branson in 2011. He works with an array of Virgin branded-businesses, 70,000 employees but just one shareholder - the Branson family. It is a unique job with unique challenges and unique opportunities. This is the story behind the Virgin brand and how Josh Bayliss ended up running it… This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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28:13

From property to the Premier League

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2024/04/30

Kevin McCabe tells the story of how he built a property empire and then ended up running Sheffield United, his beloved football club. It is a story that has highs, lows, controversial goals and legal battles This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit offtolunch.substack.com

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40:30

Tide: How to grow a business after replacing the founder

Business Leader ·

2024/04/23

In 2018 the founder of Tide, George Bevis, stood aside as chief executive and was succeeded by Oliver Prill. Since then Tide has grown rapidly. It has gone from being a promising financial technology start-up to a company whose online banking services are used by one in 10 small and medium-sized businesses in the UK. In this episode of Business Leader, Oliver Prill discusses the challenges of becoming chief executive, how to disrupt the financial services industry and why regulators may hold back

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39:24

Wizz Air

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2024/04/16

Wizz Air has emerged as one of the biggest airlines in Europe and a new low-cost rival to Ryanair and EasyJet. Its first flight was in May 2004, travelling from Katowice in Poland to Luton in the UK. Today it carries more than 60 million passengers every year and is valued at well over £2 billion after floating on the stock market in London. In this episode of Business Leader, Jozsef Varadi, the founder and chief executive of Wizz Air, discusses how he founded and built the airline, the challenges

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35:07

The 250-year-old business

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2024/04/09

How does a business survive for 250 years and still be controlled by the same family? Rankin Brothers & Sons was founded in 1774 and is celebrating its 250th birthday in 2024. It has seen the creation of the United States of America, two World Wars, and the Covid-19 crisis. Jim Rankin is the sixth generation of the family to lead the business, which supplies corks and caps for beer, wine and spirits. He has been in the business for 30 years, but when he was younger he didn’t want to join it and

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37:26

From the SAS to building a business

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2024/04/02

Floyd Woodrow and Peter Malmstrom had illustrious military careers in the SAS, the special forces unit of the British Army. Now they are using what they learned about leadership, team-building, and negotiating to build a business. That business - Quantum Group - is already worth hundreds of millions of pounds, and they have ambitions to make it much bigger. This episode of Business Leader is the story of what the military taught them about how to build and scale-up a business. And it includes the

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31:16

The former journalist at centre of $40 billion tech...

Business Leader ·

2024/03/26

Duncan Clark was an environmental journalist at The Guardian, pioneering a new way of telling stories through data visualisation and graphics. Now he is at the centre of one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the world - Canva, which offers free online tools for graphic design and has been valued at $40 billion (£32 billion). This is the story of how he built a business, sold it to Canva, and is now leading the company’s ambitious expansion plans in Europe This is a public episode. If you

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38:20

Robinhood and launching in the UK

Business Leader ·

2024/03/19

Robinhood is one of the fastest-growing companies in America and claims it is helping to democratise finance by offering commission-free share trading for all. Now it is coming to the UK. Jordan Sinclair, the president of Robinhood UK, explains how it is approaching a UK launch, the story behind the business and the challenges it has faced along the way… This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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64:14

Learning from failure

Business Leader ·

2024/03/12

A failed athletics career and an unfulfilled Olympics dream. A successful business. A failed business. Another successful business and a redemption story. This podcast episode could be four stories in one. But remarkably it is one story, which is why it is slightly longer episode of Business Leader than normal. This is the story of John Stapleton. He co-founded the New Covent Garden Soup Company and Little Dish, two successful food businesses. But in between those success stories he suffered a big

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37:04

The woman who raised $1 billion

Business Leader ·

2024/03/05

Ophelia Brown is the founder of Blossom Capital, a venture capital firm which has raised around $1 billion (£789 million) from investors since she launched it in the UK in 2018. Blossom uses the money it has raised to invest in promising businesses in Europe. Blossom is a rare success story - it is a female-led start-up and venture capital firm but is also thriving away from the traditional heart of this industry in Silicon Valley. This is the story of how Ophelia Brown founded the business, raised

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41:31

Simon Arora and B&M, part two

Business Leader ·

2024/02/27

It’s time for the second episode in our story about how B&M went from a small discount chain in the north of England to one of the biggest retailers in the UK. In part two we look at B&M’s transition from a promising medium-sized business to a FTSE 100 giant. This is a transition that many businesses fail to make. For B&M, it was about keeping your focus despite constant distractions. But it was also about learning and evolving - in terms of strategy and people. At the end of the episode we speak to

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