CEO of Airborne Health Elise Donahue knows a little something about selling over-the-counter remedies. In 1999, she co-founded Prestige Brands International (NYSE:PBH), a company that markets a hodgepodge of personal care products ranging from Chloraseptic lozenges to Murine ear drops.
His most famous business was a branding phenomenon: There were the cars, the hot air balloons, and the cute advertising that turned a simple business idea into one of the Asia/Pacific region’s most influential brands. nudie’s Tim Pethick bares his entrepreneurial soul to Camille Howard.
Louisa Wood’s businesses have never really left the schoolyard - First there were the homemade scrunchies in Year Six, then the chocolate Freddos in Year 11 - At 26, Wood’s latest scheme can be found in the backpacks of school children all over Australia - She talks to Emma Gardiner about the chemistry class that created a publishing explosion.
Fresh product is a challenge for any business. With importing and distribution on a local, interstate and international level, keeping the promise of a brand requires a lot of planning and quality control. Camille Howard checks out a florist with several points of difference to find out what keeps his business blooming.
The success of DuttonDirect.com is proof that an internet business can deal safely in transactions involving millions of dollars. Entrepreneur James Dutton talks to Camille Howard about the evolving life of a fourth generation family business.
Maeve O’Meara describes her multi-stranded career as a translation service for tastebuds. Also a mother of young children, this dynamic entrepreneur tells Camille Howard how maintaining A work–life balance is crucial to her definition of success.
What is an entrepreneur and what does it mean to be entrepreneurial? Rebecca Spicer talks to the experts, and to international success, Napoleon Perdis, and finds there’s more to it than just running a business.”
Imagine a business built around leasing an Aussie icon that takes 10 years of planning to get off the ground, and a entrepreneur so obsessed he won’t let anything stand in his way. Camille Howard talks to Paul Cave, chairman and founder of BridgeClimb, about the dizzying heights his seemingly impossible dream has scaled.
A career in the steel fabrication industry may not be every businesswoman’s ideal job, but Rebecca Spicer talks to an entrepreneur who met the challenge head-on, using gender to her advantage.
The music industry has been transformed by technology several times over in the past 20 years. Camille Howard talks to Barry Bull, a self-styled music entrepreneur who turned every change into a plus in the form of new strands in a career that goes on thriving when most people his age are retiring
