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The Times Briefing for the Morning of Friday 26th April

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Why did the restaurant chain, Little Chef, disappear from our roadsides?

Sean Farrington discovers what happened to the brand which brought us Jubilee Pancakes, Olympic Breakfasts and free lollies for the kids.

At its peak, Little Chef had over 400 restaurants on most of our major highways and a turnover well in excess of £100m.

So, how did such a successful business ultimately end up toast?

Sean speaks to Fiona Alper who was married to the Little Chef co-founder, Sam Alper; the entrepreneur, Lawrence Wosskow, who once owned Little Chef and Becky Parr-Phillips who started as a waitress but rose through the ranks to become Little Chef's head of operations.

Alongside them all to analyse Little Chef's fortunes is the self-made millionaire and serial entrepreneur, Sam White.

Produced by Jon Douglas. Toast is a BBC Audio North production for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

You can email the programme at toast@bbc.co.uk

Feel free to suggest topics which could be covered in future episodes.

Sliced Bread returns for a new batch of investigations in May. In the new series, Greg Foot will investigate more of the latest so-called wonder products to find out whether they really are the best thing since sliced bread. In the meantime, Toast is available in the Sliced Bread feed on BBC Sounds.

The Times Briefing for the Morning of Friday 29th December

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The Times Briefing for the morning of Friday 4th August.

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"Our goal is always to hopefully provide more value to a company before they've ever spoken to us." Today, join Alex (@AlexHormozi) as he guests on Diary of a CEO to share his personal story of growing up with immigrant parents and feeling the pressure to fulfill his father's dreams. He discusses his journey of leaving a successful job and starting his own business, how meeting his wife changed his life, and provides insights into entrepreneurship, personal growth, and the importance of believing in oneself. This is part 1 of the interview.

Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.

Check out the episode on Diary Of A CEO's YouTube Channel!

Timestamps:

(3:05) - Leaving job to start a business, fulfilling father's expectations

(8:20) - Breaking free from family expectations, finding support

(26:59) - Making $60,000 in one day, changing the business trajectory

(30:42) - Starting multiple companies, asking "why" in entrepreneurship

(46:50) - Turning negative emotions into motivation, the importance of input-output

(54:34) - Accepting current reality, finding joy in work

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Chancellor-In-Waiting Rachel Reeves On Her Plan For A More Activist State

Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.
On today's podcast:

(1) Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves pitches a supply-side intervention.
(2) A US debt deal remains elusive with the two sides in a standoff.
(3) The Bundesbank President says 'several' more ECB hikes will be needed.
(4) LVMH stock rout wipes $11 billion off Bernard Arnault's fortune.

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The Times Briefing for the Morning of Tuesday 14th February

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This is the most open, honest and serious conversation I’ve ever had with Jamie.

You might know him as a reality star. But Jamie is a hugely successful entrepreneur. He co-founded Candy Kittens in 2012, the fastest growing confectionary brand in Europe which turns over more than ten million pounds a year.

He’s also the founder of JamPot productions, which produces chart-topping podcasts like Nearly Weds.

We talk about how reality TV fuelled Jamie’s crippling anxiety, whether being on Made in Chelsea helped or hindered the success of Candy Kittens and why achieving success isn’t just about making bucket loads of cash.

In this episode Nicolai Tangen talks to Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay. They discuss her humble upbringing in Casablanca, importance of empathy in leadership, and Ilham even shares her favourite chemical!

The production team on this episode were PLAN B’s Tor-Erik Humlen and Olav Haraldsen Roen. Background research were done by Sigurd Brekke and Bård Ove Molberg with additional input from our portfolio managers Arnab Seal and Trym Torvund.

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HUBERT JOLY is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy and is now a senior lecturer at

Harvard Business School. He is also a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren

Corporation, a member of the International Advisory Board of HEC Paris, and a Trustee of the Minneapolis

Institute of Art. Joly has been recognized as one of the top 100 CEOs in the world by the Harvard Business

Review, one of the top 30 CEOs in the world by Barron’s and one of the top 10 CEOs in the U.S. by Glassdoor.

Joly has written THE HEART OF BUSINESS as a playbook for leaders who are ready to abandon

old paradigms and eager to lead with purpose and humanity. You can checkout the book below

Official Site: https://www.hubertjoly.org/

Amazon: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08CNMLDH1&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_907E34Q4SH2A4GT0W1CT

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"You can be successful at anything you want, just not everything you want." Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) discusses the importance of acquiring and deepening skills, as well as developing character traits such as focus, patience, and consistency to consistently execute those skills. He also emphasizes the need to prioritize and say no to shiny objects in order to achieve success.

Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.

Timestamps:

(0:22) Stack skills in deficiencies, find them, learn new skills.

(4:54) - Consistency's not a skill, it's a character trait.

(6:59) - Learn character traits to consistently execute acquired skills. Focus & patience.

(8:35) - Beware of the woman in the red dress.

(13:18) - Successful at anything, not everything.

(14:55) - Effort to maintain muscle vs. make muscle increases dramatically.

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