The Apprentice 2008 (Week 1) - In Cod We Trust

A fantastic opening to series 4 of The Apprentice had the 16 hopefuls dumped immediately into the smelly, cut-throat world of a fish market.  Did the contestants look out of plaice? Will the competition prove a bream come true?  And will we see the losers carping about how things could have been much, much batter?

Fudges finds its niche

Here is a great example of a food manufacturing business that has reinvented itself to successfully exploit a niche for luxury food products. The video link would make a great lesson starter resource and there is lots of business studies content that can be drawn out through discussion and further research.

Which business location is this? A simple starter activity

I’m a big fan of the free Google Earth.  Here’s a suggestion for how it might be used as a simple starter or research activity in a business lesson.

Can you guess - what is Britain’s fastest-growing sport?

Friday evening is approaching yet again.  And it turns out that by participating in my regular Friday exercise I’m taking part in Britain’s fastest-growing sport.  A sport that also claims to be “recession-proof”.

Are supermarkets morphing into community centres?

Where is the heart of your local community?  The village or town hall?  The Library? Or perhaps now it is the largest local supermarket.

The Social Network that Friends Forgot

Browsing Facebook the other night I saw a passing reference to one of the earliest social networking sites - Friends Reunited.  I remember using that site a few years ago, before it was bought by ITV for £120m and wondered what had happened to it since?