The company has grown to 12 busy stores and turnover is set to hit £10 million this year

Don’t Buy Her Flowers founder Steph Douglas talks frankly about the challenges of juggling a family and a business: ‘You’ll need to find someone to help share the load. It might be a partner or a family member or you might have to bring in a cleaner or after school care. Your social life might take a hit, dinner might be beans on toast. ‘

Xbox-maker Microsoft, Playstation’s Sony and Grand Theft Auto developer Take-Two have all struck multi-billion-dollar gaming deals so far in 2022

Since its 2016 launch, customers have booked over 200,000 appointments through the app

Founder Paul Brown was a ‘meat and two veg Northerner’ but made the difficult decision to go vegan after learning about meat’s impact on the environment

Jamie Barber met singer and presenter Myleene Klass at the school gates when their children became friends. During the pandemic, they went into business together.

Peter Georgiou delivers fancy takeaway from high-end restaurants like Nobu to customers including Peter Gabriel

Married couple Radha Vyas and Lee Thompson built up their travel business, Flash Pack, from scratch in 2014, bootstrapping it from bedroom startup to a multinational enterprise with 55 staff and a £20 million turnover. Then Covid hit. At their lowest point the family had £200 left in their bank account and a one-year-old baby but they re-built the company. Here’s what happened.

Walgreen Boots Alliance has put the for sale sign up on Britain’s biggest pharmacy chain. Private equity is circling and there is speculations others could be interested too: from supermarkets to Amazon

Alex Latham knew he wanted to get into fintech, so he built Pineapple Punk — a marketing agency created in just a few hours that was nothing more than a website

Lucy Mecklenburgh, Millie Mackintosh and Rochelle Humes are all fans of the organic babyfood business

London’s biggest VCs and investors tell the Standard which of the brightest start-ups they are watching this year

“The investor wanted to add a clause to the contract where he could pull out of the deal and get his money back if Sophie ‘went off the rails as a mother’ — we pulled out”

A chance encounter with a Birkin bag helped spark a passion that became a business

Burger King UK, Starling Bank, Very Group and Virgin Atlantic are all among the names tipped to join the London Stock Exchange this year