Denise Howard

9:55am Tuesday 1st July 2008

IT IS clear when you visit Denise Howard that even though the credit crunch is hitting estate agencies hard, there are no frowns at Smilesallround.

Ian Wotton

10:52am Tuesday 3rd June 2008

IAN WOTTON, managing director of the massively- expanding Redfern Travel in Marsden Park, Clifton Moor, really is a man of strange contrasts.

Rob Adams

9:47am Tuesday 6th May 2008

LIQUID concrete may flow in the veins of Rob Adams, managing director of Tadcaster-based Birse Civils, but there is nothing rockhard about his style of management.

Tony Humphreys

11:19am Tuesday 1st April 2008

IT IS hardly surprising that Tony Humphreys, managing director of Harrogate-based digital marketing agency, Magnitude, has brought his company to the pinnacle of its sector.

Wayne Topley

12:44pm Tuesday 4th March 2008

HAVING recovered from his major operation, Wayne Topley, the new 35-year-old genial general manager of the Royal York Hotel, can't resist a quip: "I know what I want from my 160 staff - a kidney."

Clive Wilson

11:20am Tuesday 5th February 2008

It seems that leaders are good team players too.

Paul Wells

11:50am Tuesday 8th January 2008

WHILE York is gearing itself up for another sea-change in its tourism strategy, it is worth remembering the man who successfully steered the city through choppy tourism waters.

Julia Judson-Smith

2:36pm Tuesday 4th December 2007

If Julia Judson-Smith arrives fresh-faced for work as managing partner of York accountancy firm UHY Calvert Smith, then it's hardly surprising

Kevin Hollinrake

10:57am Tuesday 6th November 2007

As joint chief executive of Hunters, one of the most successful York-based estate agents, Kevin Hollinrake could be forgiven just lately if he is having sleepless nights.

Colonel James Finlay OBE

11:03am Tuesday 2nd October 2007

NO ONE in Yorkshire can have an office in a more illustrious setting than Colonel James Finlay OBE.

Saleem Akhtar

11:50am Tuesday 4th September 2007

You would have thought that after all that hectic planning and activity, completion of his latest project would entitle Saleem Akhtar to carve out time to relax at his base in Flaxton, near York, but an empire-builder's work is never done.

Catherine Paver

12:12pm Tuesday 7th August 2007

Catherine Paver, always stylishly dressed, is an entrepreneur from head to toe, but in her world it is from heel to toe that counts.

Royal sale doubles estimate

Updated 9:58pm Saturday 5th July 2008

Hundreds of mementoes that give a unique below stairs insight into the Royal household went under the hammer and fetched hundreds of thousands of pounds.

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