Recent magazine features
Riding with mates on a cycling trek of a lifetime
Jenny Price and Sarah Watmore tell Jon Griffin how the Pyrenees spawned a new business. Jenny Price and Sarah Watmore are – in the nicest possible way – something of a double act. Firm friends and business colleagues, they are both huge cycling fans as well as determined characters who dug themselves out of lockdown with a niche enterprise which revolves around their love of life on two wheels....
Bringing Broadband Up To Speed
For a man preoccupied with the latest developments in 21st century technology systems, Dan Jones’ ancestral history marks quite a contrast to today’s ever-changing IT world. The engaging telecommunications specialist is a direct descendant of the Burmans, Warwickshire’s oldest farming family dating back to the Domesday Book. Burmans lost their lives at Waterloo and El Alamein while their...
Pay as You Go PR Pays Off for Ruby
Ruby Edwards in full conversational flow is quite an experience for the listener – with the occasional expletive thrown in for good measure. “I'm an unusual PR as I do not do bullxxxx. I do not do fluff. Usually, though, journalists and editors appreciate a candid approach. “I always do what I say I am going to do, I have never missed a deadline, I have always been a straight talker… feel...
Kev’s Rock-Solid Rules for Corporate Success
Football fanatic Kevin Sankar has a simple analogy for the art of management. “It is just like being the coach of a football team. You have to keep the dressing room onside. "It's about understanding individuals, knowing how to support them, guide them, develop them to maximise their contribution and also their potential." On that basis, Kevin is clearly a man focused on his people. He is the...
The Life and Times of a Property Geek
From his early teenage years, Edward Siddall-Jones was, in his own memorable words more than 20 years later, a “property geek.” “I used to read the Sunday Times Rich List as a kid. I wrote to the Richardsons when I was 14 introducing a site to them. I have still got the letter. I have always been a property geek.” While most schoolboys may still – even in a digital era where lives are often...