Elevate - for business leaders
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector,
Retail sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
links,
media,
Ros Simmons,
diary,
VIE at home,
Ten Alps,
retail,
VIE,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
This summer, the Elevate blog followed two leading UK entrepreneurs to find out what CEO life is like, especially during a recession. For three months, Alex Connock, chief executive of Ten Alps PLC, and Ros Simmons, head of VIE at home, posted a weekly
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Monday, September 14, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: recession,
Ros Simmons,
entrepreneur,
VIE at home,
direct sales,
flexible working,
e-commerce,
launch,
party plan,
consultant,
Virgin, women in business
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Thursday, September 10, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: Ros Simmons,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
VIE at home,
Virgin,
flexible working,
work-life balance,
launch,
mobile phone,
consultant
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: Ros Simmons,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
VIE at home,
Virgin,
teamwork,
Christmas,
direct sales,
presentations,
event management,
motivation,
organisation,
recognition
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Friday, August 21, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: business,
Ros Simmons,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
VIE at home,
Virgin,
Christmas,
event,
launch,
events company,
production company
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Friday, August 14, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: Ros Simmons,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
VIE at home,
Virgin,
recruitment,
Christmas,
customers,
Retail Week,
promotions,
campaign
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: Ros Simmons,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
health,
VIE at home,
success,
Virgin,
fashion,
networks,
mentors,
Liz Warom,
beauty,
Felicity Hone,
mentoring,
qualifications,
London College of Fashion
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Friday, July 31, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: Ros Simmons,
entrepreneur,
international,
strategy,
women in business,
VIE at home,
expansion,
direct sales,
franchise,
Germany,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: Ros Simmons,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
diary,
VIE at home,
Ten Alps,
Virgin,
management buy-out,
Entrepreneur’s Diary,
Entrepreneur’s Diary Alex Connock
Inspired by
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Friday, July 17, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: Ros Simmons,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
VIE at home,
Christmas,
direct sales,
flexible working,
PR,
Avon,
part-time working,
press,
DSA,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
Ros Simmons,
CEO,
diary,
VIE at home,
Ten Alps
How does the boss deal with knockbacks, big wins or the daily grind? In Grant Thornton’s Entrepreneur’s Diary series, we’ll be getting inside the heads of two chief execs. Last week, we heard from
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector,
Women in business
| Tags: recession,
Ros Simmons,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
VIE at home,
recruitment,
management buy-out,
maternity leave,
downturn,
consultants,
commission,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
Steering a business through a recession can’t be easy. So we asked our female CEO,
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