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ANDREW STONE

Designs on business, page 16

“Out of her ‘den’ TV Dragon Deborah Meaden is a reassuringly jolly interviewee. What she has to say about the Design Council’s new campaign to help hundreds of UK fi rms reinvent their products or rethink what they do could help your business win in UK and world markets.”

JEREMY MYERSON

All you need to know about... planning your workspace, page 22

“Many well-meaning attempts to redesign the workplace to improve productivity and wellbeing for staff fail because basic principles have not been put in place.”

The new BRIC spenders, page 12

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