1. Charles Dunstone Carphone Warehouse co-founder Charles Dunstone is gearing up a £227 million windfall after the company sold its stake in a US business mobile phone venture.
Carphone Warehouse will collect £838million from the sale to US partner Best Buy, the world’s biggest electrical goods retailer. It then plans to return £813million to shareholders in the form of a new share offering. Entrepreneur and company chairman Dunstone, with a 28 per cent stake, is in line for £227million, while his co-founder David Ross, who has since left the board will cash in to the tune of £103million.
2. Cash My Media
Have you ever wanted to find out exactly how much your Games, DVDs and Blue-rays are worth in cash? Are you sometimes disappointed with the results? Check out the new iTunes app from Cash My Media Lite. A few helping tweets from Entrepreneur Country and the app saw a 9400% increase in downloads in just one weekend.
3. Legacy10 Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson, Charles Dunstone, the co-founder of The Carphone Warehouse and investment banker Jacob Rothschild, have pledged to donate a combined sum of nearly half a billion pounds to charity.
They are the first amongst a number of leading businessmen and entrepreneurs who have signed up to the Legacy10 initiative, a campaign, led by Roland Rudd, the founder of financial communications firm Finsbury. Legacy10 aims to get 10 per cent of Britons to pledge 10 per cent of their wealth to charities in their wills.
4. Ella’s Kitchen Fresh from scooping the Best International Business Award at the Fast Growth Business Awards, Paul Lindley, Ella’s Dad and CEO of Ella’s Kitchen picked up the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the UK’s business Oscars, the National Business Awards.
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