Blossoming success for florist who featured on EastEnders and now turning over £500k a year17/5/2022  Image credit: Runcorn and Widnes World Florist Anna Jenkins, 34, set up Silky Bonquets in 2011 and has turned it into a business turning over £500,000 a year - and her flowers have even appeared on Eastenders.
The firm makes them for events like weddings and baby showers, but Anna says funerals are where most of her designs are featured with inspirations such as Elvis Presley tributes, Del Boy from British sitcom Only Fools and Horses as well as Buzz Lightyear, Maltesers boxes and Peter Rabbit. You can read more in The Mirror...
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 Image credit: Social Agendas Aaron Branch, found himself on Universal Credit, struggling to meet ends meet and his hunt for a stable job wasn't too well either. After trying to launch Social Agendas, a digital marketing company, he was offered a £4,000 loan by the Prince's Trust and from there it all started to take off!
You can read about Aaron's story in The Mirror...  Image credit: Andrew Ritchie from Community News When Brittany Garbutt handed over a cheque for $100,000 to start her pretzel business in a shipping container in Perth she wanted to vomit. She was just 23 and hated it, spending 19 hours a day pumping out the pretzels in 2017. But she had returned to her home state and couldn’t find a job challenging enough – having worked in brand designed – and decided she had to strike out and create something of her own.
You can read more about how Pretzel Australia transformed into the £4m business it is today over in News.Au.com...  Image credit: Annie Spratt from Unsplash From selling slime and antiques to setting up an inspirational book club, there are more young entrepreneurs who are starting to turn their dreams into a successful business across the country!
You can read more about these young entrepreneurs have taken on the coronavirus lockdown in The Mirror...  Image credit: Development Bank Wales Scott Davies set up Hilltop Honey aged 22 after being laid off as a brickie and has built it into the 26th fastest-growing company in the whole of the UK. Despite being a "nightmare" in school and ending up bagging coal for a living, Scott now has his honey products in nearly every supermarket in Britain.
You can read about Hilltop Honey over in Wales Online...  Image credit: Mike Kenneally from Unsplash With three lockdowns over the last year, High Street coffee shop chains have missed out on the estimated £5bn a year that the Brits spend on their coffee fix. With no indoor seating, some small, independent companies have grabbed the opportunity to squeeze into the gap in the market.
You can read more over at BBC News....  Image credit: Munchkin & Bear Alana Hands from Brisbane, Australia, was a broke mum who came up her own baby mat idea while on maternity leave. This idea led to Alana starting a company, Munchkin & Bear, which is now worth £3m! Mum-of-two Alana, saw a need for nicer looking, and safer, foam play mats for her kids after spending £169 on a "very ugly" design which led to her son's injury.
You can read about the Munchkin & Bear story over at Kidspot.  Brandon Webb has made a living by taking advantage of America's obsession with kicks. The 19-year-old based in Los Angeles is the founder of Hypluxe, a members-only community that teaches sales secrets of the massive secondary market for limited-edition sneakers.
Webb says he works with a team of experts to secure and re-sell shoes for mindboggling prices amd already seen extraordinary success. Entrepreneur has the full story...  Image credit: El Tiempo At age 17, with $300 in her pocket and unable to speak English, Diana Trujillo left Colombia in search of a better future for her and her mother. It was the year 2000, a science career with NASA may have seemed about as likely as setting foot on a faraway planet. These days, however, Diana Trujillo is an aerospace engineer who leads a 45-person team at the NASA laboratory that’s responsible for the robotic arm of the latest Mars rover. You can read more about this 'out of this world' story at the Good News Network...
Struggling single mum who relied on food banks now owns two multi-million pound companies!19/2/2021  Image credit: themrspedersen from Instagram Ten years ago, Rachel Pedersen, a social media strategist and TikTok expert from the US, was relying of food banks and was struggling to make ends meet, and now helps other parents start and grow their companies. You can read about Rachel's incredible turnaround in The Sun...
 Image credit: The Seep Company Worried about your job prospects this year? You are not alone. Employment opportunities are looking bleak for many. The pandemic has already resulted in hundreds of thousands of job cuts – many in the retail, leisure, hospitality, travel and entertainment sectors – and more are expected as businesses continue to struggle.
But thankfully, for those who want to give themselves the best chance of finding a new job, it's possible to add sparkle to a CV and develop your skills by taking an online course. From the top universities and colleges, including the Open University, to specialist providers such as Udemy and LinkedIn – and even private companies such as Barclays and Accenture – there are numerous courses available, both free and paid-for. They range from digital marketing, bookkeeping and Mandarin to child care. But will they make a difference? You can find out more over at 'This Is Money', and see how people are taking the world as a new-age entrepreneur, like Laura Harnett founded eco-friendly products firm Seep, (theseepcompany.com), an eco-friendly household cleaning products company which sells sponges, scourers and cloths that are plastic-free and 100 per cent compostable.  Image credit: Metro News Grant and Jordanna Sanderson dreamt up the new quiz card game, Shot In The Dark during Christmas 2016 after a tense family game of Trivial Pursuit. The game has flown off the shelves since mid-March making almost £150,000. You can read more over in the Metro News...
 Keely Parsons first started making wax melts when she was 18 years old and sold them on her Facebook group whilst on maternity leave. Sassy Shop Wax is now set to make £2.5 million! You can read more in The Sun...
 Image credit: Style of the City Magazine Rachael Flanagan was just 18 when she started Mrs Bucket in her home town of Swansea - using her last £20 to print flyers to advertise her services after failing her A levels spurred her on to create a cleaning business that's now turning over £3.5million a year. You can read more over in The Mirror...
 Image credit: Shahbaz Ali on Unsplash George Michniewicz was raised to value hard work - and that's what's taken him from being a trainee manager to a 14-restaurant McDonald's empire turning over £54m a year! You can read more in The Mirror!
 Third-year Cardiff student Ellis Lloyd Jones has built a TikTok following during lockdown that’s so big (just a solid 31 million…) he’s been able to quit his job at Greggs. Ellis started using the app back in October 2019, when the app had “barely anyone using it”. Now he typically gets around £22 every time he gets one million views! You can read more in the Cardiff Tab...
 Image credit: World Footwear Luis Onofre openly admits that his first foray into luxury shoe design could have been his last. The Portuguese designer launched his first namesake collection in 1993, shortly after taking over his family's shoe factory. His father had warned him it wouldn't sell, and his dad was proved correct. Consumers weren't interested, and the shoes bombed. You can read more over at BBC News...
 Sami Wunder is not your typical chief executive. The business she runs is a love and relationships coaching service. Today it makes over a million pounds a year. However, when she started out she had to contend with questions that trouble almost every first-time entrepreneur: should I set my prices low at the beginning to attract customers? And if I do, when do I dare raise them? You can read more over at BBC News...
How Man Utd sensation Bruno Fernandes became a legend as a skinny teen with Italian minnows Novara27/11/2020  Image credit: AFP or Licensors Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes professional debut is still the stuff of legend in Novara.
Pablo Gonzalez, currently back for his third spell at the Italian Serie B club, remembers well the November afternoon in 2012 when the skinny teenager from Portugal was brought on as a late sub. You can read more in The Sun...  image credit: Marvin Meyer on Unsplash It is a turbulent time for the economy but that has not stopped thousands of people from launching a business this year. BBC Scotland's The Nine has been hearing from four businesses born in a storm..
Weight loss transformation who gorged on chocolate and biscuits wows in amazing transformation!20/11/2020  Kelsey Daniels, of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ballooned to 15st 9lb after gorging on chocolate but has since joined Slimming World to fight the flab! You can read Kelsey's story over in The Mirror...
 Image credit: Elite Traveler Tata Harper's mission to create a natural skincare range began when her stepfather was diagnosed with cancer in 2005. His doctors advised him to adopt a healthier lifestyle. They wanted him to reduce the amount of toxins and synthetic chemicals he was exposing his body to, be it through the food he was eating, or what he was putting on his skin, from shampoo to soap. Tata Harper set out to find different for him as well as herself! You can read more over at BBC News...
 Image credit: This Is Money For many parents, the sight of their children playing hours of video games while school is out thanks to the coronavirus lockdown might drive them to despair. Ben Noble, 17 has become a successful gaming coach who is now earning almost £1,000 a month. You can read more over in This Is Money...
 For the first six years running Stitch Fix, Katrina Lake wasn't comfortable with being labelled a female business leader and this followed on the many knockbacks from male investors didn't quite understand the full potential of what Stitch Fix could deliver. BBC News has the story...
 Image credit: NeONBRAND on Unsplash A stay-at-home mum has revealed she makes £2,000 a month selling stuff she found in bins - by salvaging rubbish sold out by major stores and selling on for just 25% retail price. You can more about this business idea in The Sun...
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