Monocle 24: The Entrepreneurs

A visit to a brewery in Accra to see how the city's expanding middle class is developing a thirst for beer, we meet a family-run rollercoaster manufacturer in Italy with sights on China and Pyongyang, and investigate the building boom on a sunny Spanish island that’s not Mallorca or Ibiza.

We investigate the thriving startup scene in Medellín, find out what makes the perfect chief executive, and chat with Garrett Camp – the man behind a seat-sharing service for private jets.

We investigate the thriving startup scene in Medellín, find out what makes the perfect chief executive, and chat with Garrett Camp – the man behind a seat-sharing service for private jets.

Footwear: we meet the CEO of a Mallorca company whose motto is “Imagination Walks”, head to a factory in northern England creating trainers for Asia’s style-conscious buyers, and give Germany’s Birkenstock sandals a branding overhaul.

Footwear: we meet the CEO of a Mallorca company whose motto is “Imagination Walks”, head to a factory in northern England creating trainers for Asia’s style-conscious buyers, and give Germany’s Birkenstock sandals a branding overhaul.

This week we go back to the land – the town of Lumberland in New York state to visit a company making beautiful axes, we talk land rights in the West Bank, and discover a Spanish company bringing rural foods to urban tables.

This week we go back to the land – the town of Lumberland in New York state to visit a company making beautiful axes, we talk land rights in the West Bank, and discover a Spanish company bringing rural foods to urban tables.

We meet São Paulo entrepreneurs who are carving (or painting) a niche in the world’s second-largest beauty market, head to Freemans Bay in New Zealand where a small clothing brand is going after worldwide appeal, and ask the head of a classic car-making company how he intends to woo female customers.

We meet São Paulo entrepreneurs who are carving (or painting) a niche in the world’s second-largest beauty market, head to Freemans Bay in New Zealand where a small clothing brand is going after worldwide appeal, and ask the head of a classic car-making company how he intends to woo female customers.

Social entrepreneurship: we tour a historic refuge for London’s dispossessed that doubles as a sumptuous private members’ club, learn how recycling newcomers TerraCycle turn Hungarian waste into profit, and see how women in Afghanistan are creating small businesses to get ahead.

Social entrepreneurship: we tour a historic refuge for London’s dispossessed that doubles as a sumptuous private members’ club, learn how recycling newcomers TerraCycle turn Hungarian waste into profit, and see how women in Afghanistan are creating small businesses to get ahead.

We analyse a prototype for the perfect salesman, head to Germany to taste-test a popular soft drink, and visit the Basque Country to check out a co-op that’s stuck to a slow, steady, and fair approach during the economic downturn.

We analyse a prototype for the perfect salesman, head to Germany to taste-test a popular soft drink, and visit the Basque Country to check out a co-op that’s stuck to a slow, steady, and fair approach during the economic downturn.

Wellness special: we visit a new women-only club in London, get management tips from the founder of swimwear label Orlebar Brown, meet the makers of a skin cream for skaters in Melbourne, and do laps around London's Regent’s Park with Luis Rendon.

Wellness special: we visit a new women-only club in London, get management tips from the founder of swimwear label Orlebar Brown, meet the makers of a skin cream for skaters in Melbourne, and do laps around London's Regent’s Park with Luis Rendon.