Lucy Tobin

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Lucy Tobin is a senior business reporter at Evening Standard, covering entrepreneurs, start-ups and CEO interviews. She has been named Business Journalist of the Year at the Santander Media Awards and is the author of seven books, including Entrepreneur and Ausperity. Lucy also sets the agenda of Evening Standard's annual SME XPO scale-up conference.

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Lucy Tobin is a senior business reporter at Evening Standard, covering entrepreneurs, start-ups and CEO interviews. She has been named Business Journalist of the Year at the Santander Media Awards and is the author of seven books, including Entrepreneur and Ausperity. Lucy also sets the agenda of Evening Standard's annual SME XPO scale-up conference.

Travel

The best multi-generational holiday in France

From flamingo-spotting on the lagoon to grape juice tastings in the vineyard, this Languedoc estate has solved every problem that plagues family holidays, for grandparents and six-year-olds alike

8 Jun 2026
Business

Can Netflix get its magic back?

The streaming service has seen billions wiped off its value after posting its first fall in subscribers for a decade. Can CEO Reed Hastings get it back on the right track?

29 Apr 2022
Business

‘Cheese monster’ behind Cheesegeek traded City life for Cornish kern

‘I thought I’d spend my whole career doing that, but then there was cheese,’ says Edward Hancock

25 Apr 2022
Business

Canary Wharf 3.0: Paddle boarding, primary schools and jazz festivals

Best known for towering glass offices, the estate’s owners are trying to reinvent the East London area as a residential and arts hub with housing, sports and more. Will it succeed?

22 Apr 2022
Business

From ASOS’s first social media hire to founding an influencer agency

Sedge Beswick talks about founding SEEN Connects and encountering sexism in the industry as she grew her business

17 Apr 2022
Business

‘A life-threatening brain haemorrhage inspired me to start a business’

Charlie Wells was a high-flying executive at just 29 ‘living the dream’. Then a life-threatening brain haemorrhage changed everything.

10 Apr 2022
Business

How Joe Wicks helped turn cheesecake hobby into business fit for Queen

A boost from the Body Coach helped painter-and-decorator turned baker Joe Moruzzi get his Instagram-fuelled cake business Pleesecakes in front of the Queen

28 Mar 2022
Business

Can Planet Organic beat the cost-of-living squeeze?

The posh supermarket hopes to grow from 13 stores to 50 over the next three years, including plans for 35 branches in London

25 Mar 2022
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Business News

‘Covid was an unexpected tipping point for growth’

After wrestling with their former employer’s office move, these two entrepreneurs felt there had to be an easier way.

21 Mar 2022
Business

How ex-Scotland rugby player Grayson Hart swapped the scrum for CBD

‘Rugby stars Finn Russell and Danny Cipriani were early fans - my inbox was full of international rugby players, pro footballers, golfers, Olympians like Team GB weightlifter Jenny Tong.’

14 Mar 2022
Business

‘I pitched 100 investors in a week when I had Covid’

‘I pushed myself quite hard, because I felt so fortunate to have that many opportunities to pitch my idea,’ says Jude founder Peony Li

13 Mar 2022
Business

Perlego: How Cambridge-grad built ‘the Spotify of textbooks’

Perlego has raised $14 million from backers including the founders of online learning platform Kahoot

1 Mar 2022
Business

‘We gave away a third of our £15 million business to our staff’

‘We want to involve people at all levels as we can grow only if they grow with us’

27 Feb 2022
Business

Could share buybacks be the next big controversy on the FTSE?

Critics say the billion-pound giveaways should be invested in the business instead of being returned to shareholders

25 Feb 2022