Linda Lewis and former Labour MP Tom Levitt are back to discuss Tom’s latest book, The Company Citizen: Good for Business, Planet, Nation and Community. In this episode, they focus on the role of businesses in the future of water availability, community, and the economy; and the future of humanity and the environment in general.
Guests: Tom Levitt
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Original Broadcast: Share Radio Afternoon
The food sector might look like an attractive place to start and grow a business - it certainly did to Joe Chakra of Sloane Brothers. On this week's edition of Company Casebook, Linda Lewis goes behind the scenes to find out more about his frozen yoghurt shops, his search for sites to expand to, and why he wants to become a global ambassador of "British quality, taste, and creamy dairy".
Guests: Joe Chakra
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It's been dubbed business class coffee - where art and food science combine. Meet Malaysian-born entrepreneur Kia Boon, who hopes his venture, The New Black, will be the start of a modern-day coffee empire. He joined Linda Lewis on Company Casebook to spill the beans.
Guests: Kia Boon
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OwnerSellers is a revolutionary concept in selling property and businesses, where people can list their property or business absolutely free. Linda heads to their office down in Ickenham, to meet with MD Rupert Cattell
Guests: Rupert Cattell
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Blippar are a leading visual discovery app using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to unlock interactive experiences from the physical world. Linda visits Covent Garden for an innovative AR shopping experiment and to meet with Danny Lopez, to find out how this British company is leading the way in AR branding and merchandising.
Guests: Danny Lopez
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Linda is down at the National Theatre for the launch of HeyGreenGO, a social discovery platform that is attempting to help users meet like-minded people nearby, trying to get the social back into social media.
Guests: Andy Speed
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Back Me Up, part of the Ageas insurance group, is a new insurance platform that offers cover for 'stuff' for £15 a month. Aimed at millennials, it looks to get young people to insure their valuables in an affordable and simple way. Paul Lynes, MD of Back Me UP, meets with Linda to talk about how it works and what their aims are for the future.
Guests: Paul Lynes
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Linda meets the team at GapCap, an easy, fast and flexible cashflow solution, facilitating growth for SMEs, by providing capital to fund the gap between what companies are selling and the day the money arrives in the bank
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Linda Lewis meets HEMA, a retail institution in the Netherlands that encompasses food, beauty, interiors, children's and more. All created by Dutch designers from HEMA, they have just opened their 7th store in the UK and Linda finds out why they are not put off by Brexit
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Original Broadcast: Company Casebook
Linda meets some of the winners at the first British Small Business Awards, organised by smallbusiness.co.uk, in association with the Federation of Small Businesses.
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