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HOT 100 2014

by Staff WriterAugust 13, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100: Gemma Miskimmon and Julian Exposito-Bader

When you ask a typical retailer about their sales figures, they might tell you about tens of thousands of transactions going through their tills in a year. Ask Amazon the same question and the answer is on a rather different ...

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HOT 100 2014

by Staff WriterAugust 12, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Gavin Murphy, Breitling

Gavin Murphy has spent the majority of his career in the menswear industry, using his sharp business skills, proactive management style and warm personality to lift the fortunes of brands including Lyle & Scott, Duchamp and Gieves & Hawkes. But ...

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HOT 100 2014

by Staff WriterAugust 11, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Mark Robinson, Citizen UK

Citizen is one of the leading watch brands on the UK high street, but Mark Robinson prefers not to think about that. He’d rather have the energy and enthusiasm of a brand doing less well in order to keep a ...

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HOT 100 2014

by Staff WriterAugust 8, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Stuart Laing, Houlden Group

Laings of Glasgow isn’t the only family jeweller in the UK that can trace its heritage back 175 years, but it remains one of the most respected. Stuart Laing says his greatest achievement of the past 12 months has been ...

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HOT 100 2014

by Staff WriterAugust 7, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Mark Adlestone, Beaverbrooks

The phrase ‘compassionate capitalism’ might have been coined to describe Beaverbrooks under the leadership of Mark Adlestone. He is photographed here during a £10 million renovation at Heathlands Village, just one of the charitable projects to which he devotes time, ...

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HOT 100 2014

by Staff WriterAugust 6, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Mark Hearn, Patek Philippe

You’d think heading Patek Philippe in the UK would require a sedate and gentlemanly calendar of lavish lunches and long afternoons with clients at Wimbledon, Lords or Twickenham. The reality is rather different when the brand is celebrating its 175th ...

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HOT 100 2014

by Staff WriterAugust 5, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Nick and Giles English, Bremont

In August last year, a 1930 Gipsy Moth biplane piloted by Giles English, and carrying an 11 year-old family friend, crashed into a Northamptonshire field. It was only thanks to the flying skills of Giles that both he and the ...

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HOT 100 2014

by Staff WriterAugust 4, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Neil Duckworth Veritime

When Neil Duckworth made a shock exit from watch distributor Nuval in 2011 many people in the industry speculated over what he would do next. Well, they didn’t have long, as before the year was out Neil was busy setting ...

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HOT 100 2014

by Staff WriterAugust 1, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Victoria Campbell Dreyfuss Group

Business people can often refer to the growth of a brand or a product as moving at breakneck speed, and this is certainly true of Rotary of late, and an idiom that has a very personal double meaning for Victoria ...

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HOT 100 2014

by Staff WriterJuly 31, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Craig Rebuck WatchWarehouse

Craig Rebuck is a seriously pragmatic guy. When it comes to the challenges of retail, he’s definitely the type to marry a problem with a solution rather than merely gesticulate on the problem itself. It’s an attribute that he wishes ...

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HOT 100 2014

by Staff WriterJuly 30, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Willie Hamilton CMJ

With around 150 retail members who between them run more than 220 stores in the UK, The Company of Master Jewellers (CMJ) knows more than most about what makes watch brands successful in the country today. It comes as no ...

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HOT 100 2014

by James ButteryJuly 28, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Jose Torrens, Audemars Piguet

After nearly three years heading up Audemars Piguet’s South American interests, Brazilian Jose Roberto Torrens made a seismic life change last year and swapped his New York lifestyle for another role within the company, based in London. When a new ...

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HOT 100 2014

by James ButteryJuly 25, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: David Coleridge, DM London

It is hard to extract anything other than personal humility and praise about the achievements of others from David Coleridge, chairman and CEO of DM London, although he does concede that this year his company became “possibly the largest online ...

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HOT 100 2014

by James ButteryJuly 24, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Keith Sheppard, SWICO

The watch industry loves a story about thousands of man hours being dedicated to creating the perfect mechanical complication. SWICO has committed similar amounts of time, skill and energy into transforming its customer relationship and service processes. This sort of ...

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HOT 100 2014

by Staff WriterJuly 23, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2014: Helen Wood Fossil Group

The glint of a rose gold watch adorning a fashionable female wrist is seen so frequently today, you would think that every woman in the country has bought her own Michael Kors timepiece It is a great time, then, to ...

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HOT 100 2013

by Staff WriterJanuary 23, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2013: Kevin Lambert, OceanArc

Set against decidedly choppy economic waters, the past 12 months have hardly been the easiest in which to conceive, design and establish a new brand. But with a fantastic name, instantly recognisable aesthetic and a great story behind it, you ...

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HOT 100 2013

by Staff WriterJanuary 23, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2013: Mustafa Khalifa, Boxer Watches

Mustafa Khalifa is enchanting. It’s not a word to use lightly, but first off, he’s a very nice chap, and, secondly, there is something incredibly intriguing about a man who quits his job and starts his own watch brand, inspired ...

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HOT 100 2013

by Staff WriterJanuary 23, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2013: Lesa Bennett & Jemma Fennings

You just know that Lesa Bennett and Jemma Fennings work in fashion. All full-skirted silhouettes, texture clashing, polka-dotted outfits and fab, full, flowing hair, they cut the sort of dash that only the coolest Shoreditch kids can pull off. But ...

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HOT 100 2013

by Staff WriterJanuary 23, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2013: Sophie Ellis, Sophie E Ellis

Central Saint Martins graduate Sophie Ellis was selected by IJL to exhibit as part of its Bright Young Gems new talent initiative this year. She was the only designer on show who was creating watches. In fact Sophie is only ...

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HOT 100 2013

by Staff WriterJanuary 23, 2014November 26, 2015

HOT 100 2013: David Mason London

Cos Costas, Vass Vassiliou and Sol Solomonides, each name sounding like a musical echo, are the energetic, ebullient and cheekily irreverent trio that make up the team behind watch brand David Mason London, alongside founder and designer David Mason, who ...

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