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Richard Tyler

editor, times enterprise network

Richard Tyler is editor of the Times Enterprise Network. He was previously director of editorial at Fast Track, which researches and publishes annual rankings of Britain’s top-performing private companies with The Sunday Times. Before that he was enterprise editor at The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, covering entrepreneurs and government policy towards business.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

‘We must reclaim lifestyle businesses — they’re amazing,’ says games maker

Hazel Reynolds is back at the helm of her infuriatingly addictive family games company Gamely, having just enjoyed a six-week break over the school summer holidays with her two young children and husband, Chris, who also works at the Brighton-based business.

Reynolds, 36, turned her “out of office” on at the end of July and turned it off again on September 5...

Friday September 22 2023, 9.00am, The Times

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

‘We must reclaim lifestyle businesses — they’re amazing,’ says games maker

Hazel Reynolds is back at the helm of her infuriatingly addictive family games company Gamely, having just enjoyed a six-week break over the school summer holidays with her two young children and husband, Chris, who also...

Friday September 22 2023, 9.00am, The Times

Rugby player gets helping hand to push through the scrum of big business

England’s focus on kicking at this year’s rugby World Cup may be driven by statistics, but success on the pitch requires a feel for the game as well as a blind loyalty to strategy, argues the former England rugby scrum-half and businessman Andy Gomarsall.

He thinks there are similarities between the tension being played out on the pitch in France and the...

Wednesday September 20 2023, 9.20am, The Times

Rugby player gets helping hand to push through the scrum of big business

England’s focus on kicking at this year’s rugby World Cup may be driven by statistics, but success on the pitch requires a feel for the game as well as a blind loyalty to strategy, argues the former England rugby...

Wednesday September 20 2023, 9.20am, The Times

What I learnt... about where to open a shop

Duncan and Sam McGregor set up Planet Doughnut in 2017 at their home in Shrewsbury. Known for their exuberant flavours that include Oreo-topped cookies and cream, lemon meringue, and salted Biscoff, they have expanded from selling on markets to employing a team of 45 people operating eight shops, located from Telford to Warrington, as well as a wholesale arm...

Tuesday September 19 2023, 10.00am, The Times

What I learnt... about where to open a shop

Duncan and Sam McGregor set up Planet Doughnut in 2017 at their home in Shrewsbury. Known for their exuberant flavours that include Oreo-topped cookies and cream, lemon meringue, and salted Biscoff, they have expanded...

Tuesday September 19 2023, 10.00am, The Times

New bomb rules tighten chemical sales after Manchester Arena attack

Businesses selling the chemicals used in camping stoves, fertilisers, rat poison and a fuel for model steam engines will have to comply with new regulations from October 1, introduced in response to the Manchester Arena terrorist attack.

The Home Office has expanded the list of regulated poisons and chemicals that could be used to make explosives to include...

Monday September 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

New bomb rules tighten chemical sales after Manchester Arena attack

Businesses selling the chemicals used in camping stoves, fertilisers, rat poison and a fuel for model steam engines will have to comply with new regulations from October 1, introduced in response to the Manchester Arena...

Monday September 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

All Saints and Leon founders launch upcycled clothing and food firm

Stuart Trevor and John Vincent, the co-founders of the fashion retailer All Saints and the fast-food chain Leon, respectively, have teamed up to launch a sustainable clothing and food venture which they hope will be bigger than their previous companies.

The pair opened a pop-up store in central London last Friday and, after trading for a period online, will...

Monday September 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

All Saints and Leon founders launch upcycled clothing and food firm

Stuart Trevor and John Vincent, the co-founders of the fashion retailer All Saints and the fast-food chain Leon, respectively, have teamed up to launch a sustainable clothing and food venture which they hope will be...

Monday September 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

Council in line for dividends from its own refuse business

A commercial waste collection business bought by Coventry city council is seeking to more than double its revenues to £50 million and reward its owner with bumper dividends.

The expansion of Tom White Waste is part of a wider commercial strategy adopted by the council to invest in businesses that it thinks will generate a commercial return. Its leaders said...

Friday September 15 2023, 9.00am, The Times

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

Council in line for dividends from its own refuse business

A commercial waste collection business bought by Coventry city council is seeking to more than double its revenues to £50 million and reward its owner with bumper dividends.

The expansion of Tom White Waste is part of a...

Friday September 15 2023, 9.00am, The Times

Gen Z do the ‘hustle’ as they shun part-time and Saturday jobs

Young people are turning their backs on traditional part-time and Saturday jobs in hospitality and retail in favour of making a quick buck through their own ventures, a survey suggests.

Almost three fifths of the 1,000 Gen Zs polled by GoDaddy, the website and hosting company, said they would pursue their own “side hustle” rather than take part-time salaried...

Thursday September 14 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Gen Z do the ‘hustle’ as they shun part-time and Saturday jobs

Young people are turning their backs on traditional part-time and Saturday jobs in hospitality and retail in favour of making a quick buck through their own ventures, a survey suggests.

Almost three fifths of the 1,000...

Thursday September 14 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Gousto dishes up job cuts after loss

Gousto, the recipe-box delivery service, has cut 29 per cent of its 1,750 workforce after a £158 million loss in 2022 — but is forecasting record profits this year.

The business, valued at £1.4 billion last year and whose backers include Joe Wicks, the fitness guru, as well as SoftBank’s Vision fund and Unilever’s venture arm, saw sales dip for the first time...

Thursday September 14 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Gousto dishes up job cuts after loss

Gousto, the recipe-box delivery service, has cut 29 per cent of its 1,750 workforce after a £158 million loss in 2022 — but is forecasting record profits this year.

The business, valued at £1.4 billion last year and whose...

Thursday September 14 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Students’ breath of fresh air for lung patients wins top award

Home treatment of chronic mucus on the lungs could be available in a year if student inventors can prove their AI-powered device works.

The technology has been created by Pleural, a group of four master’s students in their second year of a joint Royal College of Art and Imperial College London programme.

Their device mimics the gentle tapping of the chest used...

Wednesday September 13 2023, 9.30am, The Times

Students’ breath of fresh air for lung patients wins top award

Home treatment of chronic mucus on the lungs could be available in a year if student inventors can prove their AI-powered device works.

The technology has been created by Pleural, a group of four master’s students in...

Wednesday September 13 2023, 9.30am, The Times

What I learnt . . . about timing

Matt Paver, 35, founded SeaWear in February 2020 to make gym and leisure clothing using yarn that was between 85 and 90 per cent seaweed. He secured preliminary deals to supply its yarn to five apparel companies, but had to begin winding up his company in May 2022 because he realised it was too early to make it commercially viable. Since closing SeaWear...

Tuesday September 12 2023, 9.30am, The Times

What I learnt . . . about timing

Matt Paver, 35, founded SeaWear in February 2020 to make gym and leisure clothing using yarn that was between 85 and 90 per cent seaweed. He secured preliminary deals to supply its yarn to five apparel companies, but had...

Tuesday September 12 2023, 9.30am, The Times

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Majority of UK companies ‘unaware of new trade regulations’

The government must up its game when it comes to communicating how UK rules affecting business are diverging from EU ones, the British Chambers of Commerce has said.

The trade body surveyed 733 companies and found that the vast majority are unaware of new regulations that take effect as soon as next month.

Of the 351 exporters polled a third manufacture goods...

Friday September 08 2023, 5.05pm, The Times

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Majority of UK companies ‘unaware of new trade regulations’

The government must up its game when it comes to communicating how UK rules affecting business are diverging from EU ones, the British Chambers of Commerce has said.

The trade body surveyed 733 companies and found that...

Friday September 08 2023, 5.05pm, The Times

Bleak landscape for budding master florists

Master florists are concerned that their industry may wilt after hearing that City & Guilds is cutting the publicly funded qualification owing to lack of demand.

Hundreds of florists have studied for highly skilled level 5 and level 4 qualifications since 2005, with some of the cost of the courses covered by the Department for Education.

Training colleges have...

Friday September 08 2023, 10.00am, The Times

Bleak landscape for budding master florists

Master florists are concerned that their industry may wilt after hearing that City & Guilds is cutting the publicly funded qualification owing to lack of demand.

Hundreds of florists have studied for highly skilled level...

Friday September 08 2023, 10.00am, The Times

‘Factory for the Future’ is a window on a new way of working

When a business invites a journalist to visit its 175,000 sq ft “Factory for the Future” you might presume it has something to show off.

But that is not how Chris Rea thinks. His new factory at Rotherham-based Aesseal is virtually empty. The exciting bit, for him, is what the space represents.

“What we’ve got here is a window to the world of modern...

Friday September 08 2023, 9.00am, The Times

‘Factory for the Future’ is a window on a new way of working

When a business invites a journalist to visit its 175,000 sq ft “Factory for the Future” you might presume it has something to show off.

But that is not how Chris Rea thinks. His new factory at Rotherham-based Aesseal is...

Friday September 08 2023, 9.00am, The Times

Give top foreign students UK residency on graduation, experts say

Exceptional maths, engineering and science graduates from overseas should be granted permanent UK residency on the day they graduate, a joint report from two think tanks has suggested.

It is one of a raft of measures that the Entrepreneurs Network, which represents 10,000 entrepreneurs, and ABE Global, a business skills provider, said are required to make...

Wednesday September 06 2023, 9.20am, The Times

Give top foreign students UK residency on graduation, experts say

Exceptional maths, engineering and science graduates from overseas should be granted permanent UK residency on the day they graduate, a joint report from two think tanks has suggested.

It is one of a raft of measures that...

Wednesday September 06 2023, 9.20am, The Times

Browser excites brands by keeping users in the loop

An entrepreneur from Manchester is working with brands such as THG, the ecommerce group, and several unnamed sports and travel brands to introduce a new internet browser that promises to make all business websites “social”.

Andy Barlow set up Chatloop in 2021 and in January this year heard from

that it had approved its new social browser, which allows...

Monday September 04 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Browser excites brands by keeping users in the loop

An entrepreneur from Manchester is working with brands such as THG, the ecommerce group, and several unnamed sports and travel brands to introduce a new internet browser that promises to make all business websites...

Monday September 04 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Women’s sport shown goal for £1bn industry

A government initiative to develop the commercial value of women’s sports teams, leagues, competitions and events will be launched this autumn.

Timed to build on the England Lionesses’ performance in football’s Women’s World Cup, the Department for Business and Trade plans to launch an investment accelerator scheme from which the holders of women’s sports...

Monday August 28 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Women’s sport shown goal for £1bn industry

A government initiative to develop the commercial value of women’s sports teams, leagues, competitions and events will be launched this autumn.

Timed to build on the England Lionesses’ performance in football’s Women’s...

Monday August 28 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Craft beer has not lost its froth, says new owner of three troubled breweries

Craft beer has a bright future in Britain despite the loss of dozens of independent breweries in the past year, the new owner of Brew by Numbers, Black Sheep Brewery and Brick Brewery has said.

Breal Capital, which is funded by private family offices, said it had rescued the three breweries because it expected craft beer consumption to continue to grow and...

Friday August 25 2023, 10.00am, The Times

Craft beer has not lost its froth, says new owner of three troubled breweries

Craft beer has a bright future in Britain despite the loss of dozens of independent breweries in the past year, the new owner of Brew by Numbers, Black Sheep Brewery and Brick Brewery has said.

Breal Capital, which is...

Friday August 25 2023, 10.00am, The Times

PAY AND BENEFITS

How higher wages can repay the increased cost

Amazon first came to South Yorkshire in 2010 and says that it has since invested more than £1.5 billion in the local economy. It operates four distribution centres in Sheffield and around Doncaster, including a £100 million mega-facility, covering 1.1 million sq ft just off the M18, that opened in July 2017.

Those sheds employ thousands of people. Some once...

Friday August 25 2023, 9.00am, The Times

PAY AND BENEFITS

How higher wages can repay the increased cost

Amazon first came to South Yorkshire in 2010 and says that it has since invested more than £1.5 billion in the local economy. It operates four distribution centres in Sheffield and around Doncaster, including a £100...

Friday August 25 2023, 9.00am, The Times

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Exporters given longer to adopt new customs software

The government has told exporters they have another four months to adopt a new software system, as uncertainty grows for international traders.

It is the second time that HM Revenue & Customs has postponed the deadline for exporters to use its new customs declaration service. The system had been due to replace its longstanding predecessor, called Chief, in...

Thursday August 24 2023, 8.30am, The Times

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Exporters given longer to adopt new customs software

The government has told exporters they have another four months to adopt a new software system, as uncertainty grows for international traders.

It is the second time that HM Revenue & Customs has postponed the deadline...

Thursday August 24 2023, 8.30am, The Times

Fastest-growing firms ‘show scale of immigrant contribution’

Almost two in five of the 100 companies whose valuations have rocketed the fastest in the last year have a founder who was born outside the UK, a study suggests.

However, the proportion has fallen by 10 percentage points since 2019, when almost half of the top-performing venture capital-backed companies had immigrant founders, according to The Entrepreneurs...

Wednesday August 23 2023, 9.00am, The Times

Fastest-growing firms ‘show scale of immigrant contribution’

Almost two in five of the 100 companies whose valuations have rocketed the fastest in the last year have a founder who was born outside the UK, a study suggests.

However, the proportion has fallen by 10 percentage points...

Wednesday August 23 2023, 9.00am, The Times