Clinton’s looming date with death was on the cards May 9, 2012 I’M SURPRISED about Clinton Cards. Not that it has gone into administration, you understand – I’m surprised it lasted so long. It’s a struggling retailer with a gigantic high street footprint (861 stores in the UK, including 188 Birthdays outlets) selling a disposable product with no intrinsic value that you could replace with a free [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF November 20, 2011 BOOST FOR YOUTH ENTERPRISE EDUCATION Youth Business International and the RBS Group are sponsoring Global Entrepreneurship Week this month. The event will involve over 200,000 participants around the UK and will involve schools, colleges and universities focusing on teaching enterprise skills. The week follows the recent trend of encouraging young entrepreneurs to build on their [...]
Entrepreneurs: born or made with an MBA? October 12, 2011 DO not let Steve Jobs’s gown fool you in this photo. The recently departed, near-legendary founder of Apple and Pixar never finished his undergraduate degree, let alone got an MBA. In this picture, he is giving Stanford University’s 2005 commencement address. In the speech, he told his audience that he “couldn’t see the value” in [...]
Moonpig founder to head Ark September 29, 2011 JUST a month after collecting a paper windfall of up to £40m from the sale Moonpig, Nick Jenkins has been named chief executive of charity Ark. The millionaire former Glencore commodities trader will be tasked with developing relationships with philanthropists to fund Ark’s programmes in Southern Africa, Eastern Europe, the UK and India. Jenkins has [...]
Moonpig founder hits the jackpot July 25, 2011 JUST over a decade ago, Nick Jenkins was working as a trader in the Moscow office of commodities giant Glencore. His departure, both from the firm and the country, was hastened when he found a death threat pinned to his front door, the work of a rogue supplier he had helped send to jail for [...]
Photobox and Moonpig in £120m merger July 25, 2011 Moonpig.com, the highly successful online greetings card company, has been snapped up by photograph printer Photobox for £120m in a deal described as a merger. Photobox will buy Moonpig using a mix of cash funded by loans and investors, and shares in the new group. The deal will combine Photobox’s 11m members and Moonpig’s 3m [...]
Photobox and Moonpig in £120m merger July 25, 2011 Moonpig.com, the highly successful online greetings card company, has been snapped up by photograph printer Photobox for £120m in a deal described as a merger. Photobox will buy Moonpig using a mix of cash funded by loans and investors, and shares in the new group. The deal will combine Photobox’s 11m members and Moonpig’s 3m [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 24, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES CHINA EYES BARTER PLAN TO BYPASS US SANCTIONS ON IRAN PAYMENTS Tehran and Beijing are in talks about using a barter system to exchange Iranian oil for Chinese goods and services, as US financial sanctions have blocked China from paying at least $20bn for oil exports. The US sanctions against Iran, which make [...]
A man on a mission to the Moonpig.com June 5, 2011 MOONPIG was a nickname I had at school,” says Nick Jenkins. “I needed a two syllable domain name, something comic and unique on Google.” It took him four days of checking potential names on Network Solutions to stumble upon Moonpig. Now a household name, it is also one of the UK’s fastest growing and most [...]
A man on a mission to the Moonpig.com June 5, 2011 MOONPIG was a nickname I had at school,” says Nick Jenkins. “I needed a two syllable domain name, something comic and unique on Google.” It took him four days of checking potential names on Network Solutions to stumble upon Moonpig. Now a household name, it is also one of the UK’s fastest growing and most [...]