Linda Lewis visits Bodybuilding.com, an American online retailer which describes itself as the world’s largest online sports nutrition store, selling more than 13,500 different health and fitness supplements and accessories to customers in more than 155 countries. The company has just launched in the UK and has big ambitions to shake up the fitness market over here, not just by selling supplements but also with their extensive range of videos and online fitness advice.
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Company Casebook with Linda Lewis, talking to Will Butler-Adams CEO from Brompton Bikes, Britain’s biggest bike manufacturer, producing 48,000 fold-up two-wheelers a year from its Brentford factory.
Guests: Will Butler-Adams
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Linda Lewis finds out about a new shaving subscription service, Shavekit, by talking to Tom Harrow and Tom Walker, the brains behind the idea.
Guests: Tim Walker,Tom Harrow
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Linda Lewis visits RateSetter, one of the world's largest peer-to-peer lenders and the biggest in the UK by monthly volume. She visited them at their offices near London Bridge in the high-tech Metal Box Factory and spoke to Rhydian Lewis, CEO and co-founder, and some of the team to find out how their innovative model of matching investors and lenders works.
Guests: Rhydian Lewis
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Company Casebook with Linda Lewis, talking to the team behind BlaBlaCar, Europe’s most popular ridesharing service. Connecting drivers with empty seats to passengers going the same way.
Guests: Alec Dent,Daniel Benamran,Alice Ackermann
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Company Casebook with Linda Lewis, meeting the founder of Stand and Stare, James Diggle to find out what photographers and customers think of the service.
Guests: James Diggle
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Company Casebook with Linda Lewis, talking to Facit Homes, a design company that makes timberframe ecohouses, put together like flatpack furniture.
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Company Casebook with Linda Lewis, talking to Joe Warren, Managing Director and and Andrew Wordsworth, founder of Sustainable Ventures, at Powervault, A London technology startup aiming to revolutionise the home energy market with their electricity storage systems linked to roof solar panels.
Guests: Joe Warren,Andrew Wordsworth
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Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging is a highly successful British technology firm which developed the world's first MRI scanner for injured or ill horses. The company has won two Queen's Awards for Enterprise and International Trade. It is now developing a revolutionary scanner to help vets diagnose and treat cats and dogs. Linda Lewis went to meet them.
Guests: Jos Belgrave,Nick Bolas,Steve Roberts,Jane Boswell
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The Bank of England Museum houses gold bars, bank notes and a whole host of exhibits charting the Bank's role at the heart of Britain's financial system stretching back over 300 years. Linda Lewis has been along to meet the curator Anna Spender and find out what's on offer to visitors.
Guests: Anna Spender
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