Latest articles by Jody Clarke
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Why a recession is exactly what the Irish economy needs
Features After bingeing on cheap credit from the ECB, the Irish economy is forecast to fall into recession this year. But a bit of fat-trimming is just what Dublin needs.
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Vital lessons from a dead investment scam
Features As scams go, land banking was probably one of the most blatant to spring from the property boom, writes Jody Clarke.
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The McDonald’s route to The Good Life
Features Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent endured terrible lunches as City management consultants. Which inspired them to launch Leon, their chain of healthy-eating fast-food restaurants.
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Liam Casey: The Irish farmer who tapped China’s growth
Features Liam Casey started with £10,000 working from the family farm importing electronic components to Ireland. Now he runs a $125m a year supply chain management company from China.
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Paul Campbell: Market trader turned burger king
Features From his beginnings on an Ilford market stall aged 17, Paul Campbell worked his way to his first million via a chain of health clubs to his current clutch of brands under the Clapham House Group.
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It's the ECB birthday party, but not everyone gets cake
Features The European Central Bank is ten years old and there's a big party at its German HQ. But not everyone in the eurozone is celebrating with quite so much gusto, says Jody Clarke.
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Emma Harrison: stitching together a business behemoth
Features Emma Harrison transformed her father's training agency and increased turnover almost tenfold in just one year. Then she had to start all over again on her own and has never looked back.
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From a boarding house to a Bentley
Features For a man who makes a living fixing leaks, it’s fitting that Pimlico Plumbers founder Charlie Mullins starts every day immersed in water. That’s the water from his indoor swimming pool…
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What does Bradford & Bingley’s £300m rights issue mean for banks?
Features B&B is the latest UK bank to whip out the begging bowl. Its business model worked fine when house prices were rising - but this is no longer the case...
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Why I bet my shirt on an Aston Martin
Features Nick Wheeler, the Eton-schooled founder of Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts, gambled £17,000 on the classic car market to raise money for his business - and it has paid off handsomely.
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My cloak and dagger marketing coup
Features It’s ironic that Ian Millner's marketing group Iris Worldwide, which now turns over £30m a year, has rather cloak-and-dagger origins…
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Golf, beef and my debt to Prince Charles
Features Steve Howell had one simple reason for leaving journalism to set up his own PR business: money. But building it would prove more daunting than he’d imagined.
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I found my fortune in a plastic cup
Features The idea of setting up a pencil firm sounds a little behind the times. And making them from plastic cups sounds just plain daft. Yet that’s exactly what Edward Douglas Miller set out to do in 1996…
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How rising food prices are adding to America's woes
Features The US economy continues to falter - last week unemployment claims rose to their highest since July 2004. And Americans now have another thing to worry about, writes Jody Clarke: soaring food prices.
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How I survived recession
Features Andrew Dunn was just 22 when he sent out his firm’s first ski brochure in 1986. Today, it has expanded beyond skiing, to places as far flung as Rajasthan, turning over £20m.
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Why Africa could be a safe haven from America's woes
Features Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow 7% this year on the back of booming demand for commodities, including gemstones such as Tanzanite. Beware though, this isn't called a frontier market for nothing.
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How Dorset charm helped sell my biscuits
Features By 1989, the bakery business set up by Steve Fudge's grandfather was in trouble. But with new products and an emphasis on the charms of Dorset, the business is going strong.
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US recession: the end of the argument
Features Wall Street slumped yesterday on the release of some horrendous employment numbers - the clearest indication yet that the US is in recession. What next? asks Jody Clarke.
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Three ways to play the uranium boom
Features In many parts of the world, nuclear power is seen as the only workable solution to global warming - and that's good news for uranium. We look at the best ways to cash in.
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Profiting from classic English recipes
Features Eldon Robson's plans to enter the family soft drinks business were scuppered when it folded while he was in his teens. But times change, and now Fentiman's classic brews are back in fashion.
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A global crackdown on tax havens?
Features Armed with a list of tax-haven account-holders, the German authorities are hunting down tax evaders - many of whom have accounts based in Liechtenstein (left). Is this crackdown just the beginning? asks Jody Clarke.
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How I made £47m selling buns to KFC
Features Asif Rangoonwala says he learned everything he knew about business from his father. But by the age of 40 he was looking for a challenge of his own - and a hamburger bun-making business provided just that.
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What's gone wrong in South Africa?
Features Government failure to increase capacity has left South Africa in the grip of power cuts - and that means disaster for the country's economy, says Jody Clarke.
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Is America heading for a Japan-style crisis?
Features In the 1990s, Japan struggled with a burst credit bubble, fast-falling asset prices and a near-bankrupt financial sector. Now the US is heading in the same direction, says Jody Clarke.
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