Wonky fruits, supplements for pets and smart walking sticks – Britain's consumer Innovators of the Year

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Spectator Economic Innovator of the Year Awards, in partnership with Rathbones, celebrate the passion and creativity of British entrepreneurs. From hundreds of entries we have narrowed down to some 50 finalists across the United Kingdom. In this episode, the judges discuss the innovators within our consumer goods and services category, from suppliers of wonky fruits to producers of supplements for pets.

The judges in this episode are Merryn Somerset Webb, senior columnist at Bloomberg and the founder of MoneyWeek; entrepreneur and investor Gordon Black, whose company Peter Black Holdings was a major supplier of the UK's leading retailers; Michelle White, Head of Private Office for Rathbones; and Martin Vander Weyer, The Spectator's business editor.

The awards and this podcast series are sponsored by Rathbones, a leading provider of individual wealth management.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Spectator and welcome to this podcast in our series of podcasts in which we salute and celebrate this year's finalists in the Spectator's Economic Innovator of the Year awards,
0:24.7	which celebrate entrepreneur-led, high-growth UK companies all across the country from every corner of the UK
0:32.8	and in every possible sector of business. I'm Martin van der Weir.
0:38.6	I'm the Spectator's Business Editor,
0:40.5	and I'm one of the founders of these awards,
0:42.9	which are now in their seventh year.
0:45.1	And we're proud to say that the number of entries
0:47.6	has gone up in a straight line graph, more or less, for seven years.
0:52.1	So this year we had almost 270 entries to sift through.
0:58.7	And I think we've all been fantastically impressed at the quality of them as well as the range.
1:04.3	And given that range, you, the listeners will understand that we're not judging like against
1:10.0	like. we're judging
1:11.2	completely different businesses against each other we're also not scientists so we're
1:17.6	sometimes wrestling with the advanced technologies of the businesses pitching to us but it's a
1:25.3	fantastically enjoyable challenge for us and it's all made possible by our
1:32.0	sponsor, Rathbones, incorporating InvestTech, wealth and investment UK, represented here by my good
1:40.7	friend Michelle White, who I'll invite to introduce herself and thus. Thank you, Martin. Yes,
1:48.4	my name is Michelle White and I head up the Rathbone's private office business where we focus on
1:53.2	providing strategic wealth advisory solutions to our high and ultra high net worth clients by
1:59.7	delivering across the core three pillars of private client
2:03.8	solutions as we refer to them, namely financial planning, investment management, banking and
2:09.4	lending. We also help our entrepreneurs and their private companies by working closely with our
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