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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Now here's a thing.... Giant adverts the size of skyscrapers? Which you see for just a few seconds .. before they disappear.. a bit like the Cheshire Cat. Sounds like something out of a sci fi movie, but in fact it's already a reality and on this week's Company Casebook Linda Lewis goes behind the scenes at Lightvert, a digital 'out of home' media technology firm which has developed a way of projecting giant advertisements onto the side of buildings for just a few moments, before they disappear from your vision. You don't need special glasses. You SEE them with the naked eye. Lightvert developed the technology with the aid of a grant from Innovate UK and now they're crowdfunding.
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Original Broadcast: Share Radio Afternoon
We'll be looking at the business of cyber security - always topical, and particularly so this week when news of another huge potential data loss has emerged, with over 700,000 pieces of NHS patient correspondence "not being delivered correctly" according to the Health Secretary though the Guardian described them as just plain lost. We'll be meeting the Bradford-based cyber security firm ECSC to find out about the risks of data loss to businesses, and how ECSC is currently engaged in a huge expansion to take advantage of new data breach reporting rules which come into effect next year. How can businesses prepare? Find out on Company Casebook, with Linda Lewis.
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Original Broadcast: Share Radio Afternoon
On Company Casebook this week Linda is visiting Wazoku - a fast expanding firm with big ideas about innovation whose software has already saved Waitrose millions of pounds by harnessing ideas about how to do things better put forward by staff, customers and other businesses they work with.
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On Company Casebook this week (Tues and Thurs at 2, Friday at 10:30) Linda Lewis meets some of the team behind Remeo Gelato, importers of the finest Italian gelato brought weekly to the UK by refrigerated lorry, which has been available via independent retailers and Ocado and is just about to go into Waitrose. We'll be hearing about the secrets of their gelato journey and also finding out how a chance contact with the tennis star Johanna Konta resulted in her becoming their brand ambassador and them filming a video together at the National Tennis Centre where Johanna had to hit frozen balls of gelato fired from a cannon. Amazing what lengths companies will go to catch the attention with something a bit out of the ordinary! So join them in Company Casebook here on Share Radio - (Tuesday and Thursday at 2, Friday at 1030.)
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On Company Casebook this week we’re visiting a firm which is determined to make Gravesend on the Thames estuary the fintech capital of Kent. They’re called Kuflink – and they've already built a solid businesses providing bridging finance on property deals. Now they’re just about to officially launch into peer-to-peer lending as well - doing deals they say in days rather than the weeks or months it can take with traditional banking. Ultimately their sights are set on becoming a challenger bank. So how do they do it? Linda Lewis has been talking to them at their ultra modern offices, transformed from an old video rental showroom in the heart of Gravesend.
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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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On Company Casebook this week Linda Lewis is meeting a team of futurists who not only predict the future but also write about it. They're called Fast Future - and they advise governments and organisations about the likely risks and opportunities in an increasingly unpredictable world. Not only that, they've built a thriving publishing business too, where books are turned around in just a few months instead of years, disrupting traditional publishing models. Linda has been meeting the founder Rohit Talwar and some of his team, to find out what they make of Trump and Brexit, plus the coming clash between Man and Machines, courtesy of their author Gerd Leonhard. Be warned - they believe there's a very real prospect of Nigel Farage becoming Prime Minister. And Trump's diktats they say can only get worse. That's Company Casebook this week on Share Afternoon Tuesday at 2pm And on Friday in Share Morning at 1030.
Guests: Rohit Talwar
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Have you ever thought about the speed with which cars depreciate in value and how little they're used for a major asset? If so, you'll immediately see the logic behind the latest sharing economy business model which has just arrived in Britain. It's a peer-to-peer car rental business called Turo - car owners rent out their cars to travellers, with Turo taking a percentage of the proceeds. Their CEO and some of his top team spoke to Share Radio's Linda Lewis on Company Casebook this week, explaining why they've chosen the UK as their first big expansion after North America and more.
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It's time for a brand-new episode of Company Casebook with Linda Lewis. This week Linda looks at Kafoodle - a firm run by two women that has designed a food app for people with allergies. First things first, Linda meets the founders Kim Antoniou and Tarryn Gorre.
Guests: Kim Antoniou,Tarryn Gorre
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