Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist James Caan, has joined the Dragons Den panel for the new series.
The multi-millionaire joins Peter Jones, Duncan Bannatyne, Deborah Meaden and Theo Paphitis as potential investors.
James Caan set up the Alexander Mann Group in 1985 which grew into one of the leading HR outsourcing companies in the UK. After building […]

Sir Richard Branson owner of Virgin Comics is set to publish a new series of the comic book legend Dan Dare.
The pilot of the future will return in a new monthly series from November. During the 1950’s when the comic character appeared on the front of boy’s comic ‘The Eagle’, it was selling around a million copies […]

Bannatyne fitness is planning to open a call centre and Sensory Spa brand to it’s home town
The health club chain owned by Dragons Den entrepenaur Duncan Bannatyne, has chosen Darlington over Milton Keynes for the location of it’s contact centre. Initially six staff will be employed at Bannatyne’s headquarters, in Haughton Road to manage bookings and […]

Sir Alan Sugar has been blamed for their being a rise in unfair dismissals, due to the blunt talking he uses on ‘The Apprentice’
There has apparently been a massive increase in the amount of employment tribunals that have had to take place . It has been pin-pointed as the fault of macho bosses copying the blunt talking used by Sir […]

Eddie Stobart the UK haulage company is merging with the quoted Guernsey property firm, Westbury.
The UK haulage company has joined with the Guernsey property firm to create a road, rail and port transport logistics company with assets over £250 million.
Eddie Stobart famous for it’s lorries, is at present the largest privately owned haulage company in […]

Sir Richard Branson’s company Virgin Atlantic has suffered a large drop in it’s annual profits. Falling a whopping 85 per cent to a mere £6.6 million, down from £45.2 million the previous year.
A number of reasons have contributed to the dip in profits, including losses linked to it’s Nigerian start-up private flag carrier, higher oil […]

Alan Sugar has agreed to sell his Amstrad business to BSkyB for £125 million.
Sir Alan Sugar will make £35 million from the sale of Amstrad to BSkyB, but will continue to work with the organisation.
Amstrad was founded in 1968 and became a household name after launching several mass market home electronics products and was once […]

Mike Ashley bemuses the city again, after buying a 1% stake in Adidas.
The stock market was closed, then Sports Direct release a bulletin stating the purchased 1.6 million shares - 1% of Adidas. The group cliamed that the £48 million transaction was consistent with a policy of “pursuing strategic investment opportunities” where it could “gain […]

Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct shares tumbled yesterday after the company warned that profits in the current financial year would be substantially lower than City expectations.

Having built the retail empire Sports Direct, Mike Ashley must have thought that floating the company would be a natural progression in his business career. However, since floating in February, Sports […]

Deborah Meaden is set to cash in to the tune of £20 million when Weststar Holidays is sold to Parkdean Holidays.
Deborah Meaden, another ‘celebrity entrepreneur’ thanks to the BBC business show Dragon’s Den, could be cashing in on the 23 percent of shares she owns in the firm, Weststar Holidays, founded by her parents.
Weststar was […]