Archive of Yorkshire Business Insider
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Our annual 42 under 42 feature includes profiles on 42 not-previously-profiled young entrepreneurs who are faces of the future - everyone from high-flying recruitment consultants and internet millionaires to someone making mountain bikes in their garden shed. Plus we consider what makes an ideal finance director.
Football and property is a common mix, but in our February issue Kevin McCabe tells us how he has managed to combine the two so successfully with his Scarborough empire and Sheffield United. Plus we reveal our take on the 100 most powerful people in Yorkshire.
Towns and cities across the region are hoping to transform themselves as part of Yorkshire Forward's Renaissance project.
In our March issue we assess just how far these plans have travelled from people's imaginations into reality. We also look at another project transforming much of the region - the Private Finance Initiative. And we make our first assessment of how the year has gone so for for deals.
Yorkshire's track record in getting its share of big lottery projects has not exactly been tremendous - with Doncaster's Earth Centre, Sheffield's National Centre for Pop Music and Bradford's New Millennium Faith Experience all already consigned to history. As the Millennium Commision winds up and the new Big Lottery Fund is launched, we look at what went wrong and what better success could come in the future. Plus we consider the perennial question of how to improve the region's transport, and take a look at how South Yorkshire's economy is functioning.
It's often held out a something of an idyll for the working woman - top job, top home, top family. But is this really achievable today in Yorkshire business. And if so, how? We talk to some of the region's leading business women to find out. We also include our yearly healthcheck on the region's economy, and we consider the attractions of locating your office near water.
Anyone who tells you that the Yorkshire textiles industry is dead is wrong. We take a look at those textile companies that are still thriving in the region, and examine just what they are doing to ensure they have a future. Plus we look back at the last six months in the corporate finance deals market, and analyse how the Bayford Group, one of the region's key succeses in the fuel sector, can best manage its new venture.
They have dominated our Top 500 list of Yorkshire's biggest companies for years, but this year both Asda and Morrison have been forced to give way to Persimmon. Plus find out what's happened to our steel industry, and why Yorkshire architects are aiming higher.
Yorkshire's food industry - a mainstay of the economy - has been left reeling by campaigns for better food fronted by the likes of Jamie Oliver. This month we look at how it is responding. Plus we reveal the results of our very own survey on Christmas parties, and look at just what is involved in doing a business turnaround.
The survival of a sizeable printing industry is one of Yorkshire's major success stories. We find out why. Plus we profile the 100 fastest growing companies in the region.
Our annual list of the 100 richest businesspeople in Yorkshire reveals a new man at the top. Plus we look at what is happening in the east of the region, in particular to its fishing industry.
Yorkshire used to be littered with famous beers, but many have now been taken over by multinationals. We speak to one individual who has brought his beer back under family control, and look at how the industry as a whole is faring. Plus all the details of our Dealmakers shortlist.
What were the really big stories in 2006? To round off the year, we round up the region's successes, and take a look at who won what at Yorkshire Dealmakers. And we consider what the new Sheffield City Region means for business...
