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Issue - November 2009

Our cover story delves deep into the cover pricing scandal affecting many Yorkshire construction business and projects, as well as those businesses that lost out for not engaging in this practice. While these businesses, like the banks, clean up their acts, we also take a look at the more above board ways businesses grow. The November issue includes interviews with the winners of our Growth 100 awards and a round table with successful business leaders giving the inside story on how they have built robust businesses.

Cleaning up its act

In the wake of the mayhem wrought by financial exuberance, the reputation of business was already on the floor. Now, along comes an Office of Fair Trading (OFT) inquiry to show that dodgy dealings were far from confined just to the financial services sector during the heady boom days.

Dishonest ways

The great property boom was driven by sharp practice and Yorkshire companies were in the thick of it. Jim Pendrill reports.

The show must go on

Susannah Daley takes the businesslike approach to showbiz, despite stormy seas.

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