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1. 1. Top of the form

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 20 August 2003

   JOHN Roberts, chief executive of United Utilites, was recently voted top in a poll of the region's 100 most important businesspeople.&  He spoke to the M.E.N's Patricia Roberts& about his rise to the top.& 

2. 2. Making his Mark on medical science

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 September 2004 PATRICIA ROBERTS meets Professor Mark Ferguson the brilliant, pioneering scientist turned businessman who heads Renovo, a company developing drugs to combat scarring.

3. 3. Local firms queue to take on the superbug menace

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 July 2004 AS the NHS turns for help to the Dutch, north west pioneers are at the forefront of the fight to eradicate MRSA, the superbug that is infecting our hospitals in epidemic proportions, reports Patricia Roberts.

4. 4. Aria's singing a song of success

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 04 August 2004 WHEN he arrived in Manchester 10 years ago, with everything he owned in a tiny Peugeot, Aria Taheri, was a poverty-stricken student. Today, the work-driven entrepreneur and founder of Aria Technology heads a '25m a year turnover company employing 86 staff, and is poised to move into brand new '2.3m premises. He talks to Patricia Roberts, about the journey to success from revolution-torn Iran.

5. 5. Rupert enjoys his Freedom

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 31 March 2004 WHEN& Rupert Webb launched his own company, it was a “lifestyle” business – he just wanted to make some money and enjoy spending it. Then, like Topsy, Freedom Finance just grew and grew, to be propelled into the leading financial services group in the UK. Today it spends £20m a year on advertising alone. Here he tells Patricia Roberts how he got here from there.

6. 6. Born and bred into the family firm

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 19 February 2003 PATRICIA Roberts speaks to the great, great grandson of one of the north west's strongest brands.

7. 7. Veterans coming up roses

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 27 June 2003 AGE need not prove a barrier to employment, reports Patricia Roberts.

8. 8. Business Bites: Striking a blow for good sense

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 20 September 2003 THIS week I posted a birthday card to a relative in New Zealand, without any real thought of the complexities of its 12,000-mile journey, writes Patricia Roberts.

9. 9. Business bites: Time to end Eastern habit

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 27 December 2003 I ALMOST needed the smelling salts when I came across a small north west firm exporting its Made-in-Britain wares to China, writes Patricia Roberts.

10. 10. Business bites: Chewing the Fat

    Manchester Evening News, Saturday 29 November 2003 WE'RE becoming a nation of tubbies, but "junk" food chiefs are refusing to carry the can for those who have had their chips and get an early visit to the great cream-cake in the sky because they are over- weight, writes Patricia Roberts.

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