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Interviews, profiles and analysis from the Retail Index community.

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  • Interview with Steve Adams’ from Mattress Online

    Mattress Online started in December 2003, appropriately from co-founder Steve Adams’ bedroom.

  • Interview with Simon Mellin from The Modern Milkman

    It’s easy to romanticise the way things used to be done, like

  • Interview with Jessica Hanley from Piglet in Bed

    Jessica Hanley started homeware brand Piglet in Bed in her mum’s Sussex

Insights

  • Don’t take resilience for granted

    I meet a lot of entrepreneurs. As you can see from this

  • Profitability is back

    Retail Index companies can operate in any sector. They can be B2B or

  • A veteran’s guide to fundraising

    When growing a business, money helps. Unfortunately, there’s less of it around

  • The rise of conscious capitalism

    Social and environmental impact is firmly on the corporate agenda, but the

  • Growing pains: How to stay agile as you scale

    How to stayagile as youscale GX leaders offer their advice for retaining entrepreneurial

  • The UK needs more than one growth engine

    The companies on this list are achieving exceptional things and deserve our

  • How to make purpose practical

    If you ask CEOs what their company’s purpose is, very few will

  • Do you need a degree to become a high-growth CEO?

    A university education was once a relative rarity at the upper echelons

  • Why Retail Index CEOs are more diverse than FTSE CEOs

    Retail Index analysis of the UK’s 100 fastest growing companies has revealed

  • Good growth: Business with purpose

    Purpose has assumed a central place in business thinking over the past

  • Methodology

    Companies are ranked by compound annual growthof revenue over two years. To

  • Leadership Lessons

    The companies in the Retail Index do some quite different things, often

  • Good Growth

    Business with purpose Purpose has assumed a central place in business thinking

  • Why Growth Matters

    It’s not always popular to say you believe in growth. Environmental and

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