#business-growth

#business-growth

Having spent 22 years living in Dallas and eating at some of the best BBQ joints in the world, I can say unequivocally that BBQ sauce, while great, is the least important aspect of an authentic BBQ experience. It's all about the wood, the smoke and lots of patience.

At Extra Ibiza, I focus on building and growing the ecosystem around the company while protecting its human and creative soul. This involves developing partnerships with yacht and villa owners to curate experiences that fit our clients' desires.

The Microsoft Advertising Regional Partner Awards is a prestigious event that aims to recognise and reward outstanding, creative, effective, and passionate work by search advertising individuals, teams, agencies, channel partners and technology partners working with Microsoft Advertising in Europe.

My whole career is based on a love affair with food - and a lifelong friendship. I grew up on the West Coast, but had tried cheesesteaks on trips east, and adored them. In college, I was living with Jason, who has been my best friend since we were 10. One day, he came home talking about the best sandwich he'd ever eaten. He told me I had to go to Capriotti's.

Over eight years of writing for travel publications, Kim Magaraci developed a passion for domestic travel. She learned that travel tips online couldn't compete with those destinations you could only discover by word-of-mouth. So, when she founded her travel business, KGM Travel Design, in 2024, she hoped to emphasize personal relationships with vendors and customers and avoid using AI, despite her experience with it.

So popular is the fantasy game that its parent company Games Workshop is valued at a staggering 6bn and is almost ever-present on British high streets. The fact a niche interest game invented by self-confessed geeks has become a huge global business is a story almost as unbelievable as those played out on its customers' kitchen tables. Games Workshop started as a mail order board games company run by three friends

We live in a world moving at the speed of AI, where everything is changing all at once. As we streamline every aspect of life to be faster and more efficient, it only makes sense to modernize how we network. Before you overhaul your networking style, it's important to remember the fundamentals, then build on them with new skills. Networking is everywhere, all the time

Neurosymbolic AI fuses the statistical power, pattern recognition, and adaptability of neural networks-think large language models (LLMs)-with the logical, rule-based structure of symbolic reasoning that can predict real outcomes while helping prevent the hallucinations generative AI (GenAI) may produce. Correlation isn't causation. Summer is, of course, prime ice cream season in California, and that's also when shark bites are most prevalent-but enjoying your mint chip cone won't make it more likely you'll get bitten. Neurosymbolic AI sorts out the coincidence and lets you dig down into what's really causing those shark bites.

What started as a small venture has grown into Knox Pest Control, a regional company with 18 offices across the Southeast, serving more than 90,000 customers and employing over 225 team members. Sean's journey began early, working alongside his father and brother when the family business was revived in 1995. From the start, he saw leadership as more than running a company. "It was about protecting families, caring for communities, and standing behind what we promised," he recalls.

His track record speaks clearly. He has advised firms that tripled sales in just 18 months, improved throughput by more than 50% without hiring extra staff, and increased sales multiples by 2.5 through stronger profitability, streamlined operations, and reduced risk. His approach combines hard data with hands-on leadership. Before launching Fulcrum Consulting, Nirav was President and CEO of Orion Technologies. Under his leadership, Orion grew from a $1 million start-up into a $50 million company recognised for both rapid growth and workplace excellence.

FlynnStoned Cannabis Company, one of New York's fastest-growing dispensary brands, has opened the neighborhood's largest cannabis shop at 8112 Fifth Ave. The dispensary debuted Aug. 31 and hosted a community event last weekend. This marks FlynnStoned's second Brooklyn location, following its July 2025 debut in Greenpoint. It joins Kaya Bliss, the nabe's first legal dispensary, which opened earlier this year on Third Ave. between 84th and 85th streets.

Rescue Air and Plumbing doesn't just rely on necessity for growth, however. The $25 million business has achieved success due to the ingrained, small-town values Campbell grew up with. "We treat people like we did when we grew up in the country, and we do what we say we're gonna do," he says. "Because if you burned a bridge where I'm from, that burnt bridge is gonna follow you forever."