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INDEPENDENTS WILL ALWAYS HAVE THEIR DAY

Visiting Boston last week, I came across a brilliant toy shop with a notice in its window about the importance of indie businesses. It argued that there is a passion and engagement within an independent enterprise that large corporates can only envy.

As a customer, I have a huge amount of empathy with that view. I like the individuality of an owner-managed organisation. I want a merchant I patronise to have character, not to be a faceless entity. I see many of the founders of these types of companies as artisan entrepreneurs, who are willing to apply super-human efforts to make their creations succeed. I prefer staying at boutique hotels to bland chains, and using a family-owned printer when I can.

Sometimes when I walk into one of the dominant supermarkets, I feel almost suffocated by the uniformity. Unfortunately, lenders, landlords, suppliers and many other critical partners are biased towards large businesses – they see them as more reliable and creditworthy.

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盧克•強森

盧克•強森(Luke Johnson)是一位成果頗豐的企業家和創業家,他爲英國《金融時報》撰寫企業家專欄。他目前擔任英國皇家藝術協會的主席,並管理著一傢俬人股本投資公司——Risk Capital Partners。強森曾在牛津大學學醫,但是畢業後卻進入投行業。他在1992年收購PizzaExpress,擔任其董事長,並將其上市。到1999年出售的時候,PizzaExpress的股價已經從40英鎊漲至800英鎊。

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