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Entrepreneur of the Year - Part Two

Stories of business struggle and success from four country winners at the World Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in Monte Carlo.

We look at four stories of business struggle and success from the World Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in Monte Carlo. Peter Day speaks to New Zealand serial entrepreneur Craig Heatley, who got his start with a mini-golf course and ended up in charge of a media powerhouse. Sipho Nkosi is a mining entrepreneur in South Africa. As a poor, black man he tells his story of growing up in a society still divided by race, and how he climbed his industry to become chief executive of mining company Exxaro.

And another African entrepreneur, Emmanuel Katongole, has big plans to manufacture pharmaceuticals in Uganda with his company, Quality Chemicals. Finally at the awards, sponsored by the global financial services firm Ernst and Young, Peter talks to Guenter Edlinger of Guger Technologies about how cutting edge brain science lead to his venture in the business world.

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29 minutes

Last on

Wed 11 Dec 2013 15:32GMT

Contributors to this programme

Craig Heatley

New Zealand serial entrepreneur

Sipho Nkosi

CEO and co-founder of Exxaro Resources, South Africa

Emmanuel Katongole

Managing Director and co-founder of Quality Chemical Industries, Uganda

Guenter Edlinger

CEO and co-founder Guger Technologies

Broadcasts

  • Sat 7 Dec 2013 12:32GMT
  • Sun 8 Dec 2013 09:32GMT
  • Wed 11 Dec 2013 00:32GMT
  • Wed 11 Dec 2013 04:32GMT
  • Wed 11 Dec 2013 15:32GMT

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