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And The Winner Is...

UniCredit CEO Alessandro Profumo, European Business Leader of the Year
 

Charity Crosses The Divide

European philanthropists are starting to emulate their more generous American counterparts, finds Emma Rees
 

Declan Ganley

Declan Ganley’s astonishing rise shows a flair for locating the next big idea and then creating the market conditions for take-off. By Richard Lofthouse
 

Estonia's Iron Man

Estonian high-tech entrepreneur Rainer Nolvak started his company from his bedroom. Now he wants to save the world. Richard Lofthouse reports
 

European Business Leaders Awards

We profile the winners and shortlisted nominees
 

European Business Leaders Awards 2008

CNBC Europe hands out the laurels to a star-studded cast of business leaders
 

Eurotypes: The Eurostar Traveller

Mark Jones rides the rails with an entrepreneur on the cutting edge of both commerce and couture
 

Eurotypes: The International Property Queen

Mark Jones profiles the real estate prima donna with a knack for getting away from it all
 

Eurotypes: The Luxury Goods Customer

Mark Jones cautions that there is sometimes more to a humble shop assistant than meets the eye
 

Eurotypes: The Oil Apologist

Mark Jones finds it's not easy being green when you're making a living from the black stuff
 

Eurotypes: The Private Banker

Mark Jones follows the ambitious young wealth manager who finds his world-class education can't disguise his roots.
 

Eurotypes: The Private Equity Prince

Mark Jones braves a trip inside the mind of a money making golden boy
 

Eurotypes: The Procurement Officer

Mark Jones caricatures the colourful types found in the world of European business
 

Eurotypes: The Tech Geek

Problem career shifts
 

Golden Goodbye

Success has always brought rewards, but these days failure can be quite lucrative too.
 

Morten Lund

Morten Lund is an entrepreneur turned media mogul, now revitalising the newspaper business. Barry Mansfield reports
 

The New Billionaires Club

Movers and shakers from the former Eastern Bloc
 

The Wrong Stuff?

Do you have the right psychological profile to be an entrepreneur?
 

Walter Butler

The business maestro taking on France’s Virgin Group
 

 

Re-Visitng Startups: Rapha

The first of a series, we re-visit start-ups featured in earlier editions of CNBC European Business to see how they are tackling the downturn in 2008

In The Spirit

Celebrate summer with a fine blended Scottish whisky, an award-winning rum, and a budget-breaking single malt.

Worlds Apart

With development continuing apace, Qatar appears immune to the global credit crunch. Richard Lofthouse finds out why

Tapping A Market: The Rush To Invest In Water

The world is waking up to water shortages and private sector solutions, Richard Lofthouse and Barry Mansfield report. Additional research by Flemmich Webb and Robert Pomfret

The New Screen Test

Despite a bumper summer spearheaded by a record-breaking Batman installment, the film industry might not be as recession-proof as once thought. Colin Brown reports