Bitesize Business Breakfast

Sheikh Ahmed, CEO of Emirates, and Tom Enders, CEO of Airbus, talk to Richard Dean in Hamburg, at the delivery of the airline's 100th A380.

Richard's back from the Airbus factory in Hamburg and he brought one marzipan advent calendar back with him. Brandy & Malcolm went head-to-head in an aviation quiz to decide who takes it home.

Chris Hewitt, Associate Director of TRI Consulting, joins us with his forecast for 2018. Profits are plunging at Dubai hotels, amid rising costs and stiff competition.

Lee McMahon, Co-Founder of Support Legal, joins us to talk about a new initiative to offer legal information and documents new companies need to start up for free. The company are looking to make legal services cheaper for start-ups.

Ed Bell, Commodity Analyst at Emirates NBD, gives us his analysis of the US jobs numbers and the new Fed head, and also the first UK interest rate rise in 10 years.

Kayla Itsines, fitness entrepeneur, joins us in studio. She is a woman that Forbes magazine has called the world’s top fitness influencer with 7.8 million Instagram followers, an estimated combined fortune - with her business partner - of 63 million dollars, and she's just 25. 

Cem Tarik Yuksel, Managing Director of Unilever Gulf, talks to us about sustainability. It is hard enough as a small business, but when you're one of the world's biggest FMCG companies it's a whole lot more difficult.

Jan Hills, author, talks to us about her new book called Brain Savvy Woman, which is on the theme of using neuroscience to overcome gender biases in the workplace. She explains why all HR departments need to think about the social stereotypes - for both men and women - in their workplaces. 

Ghassan Afiouni, Managing Partner of Steel Wood Industries, has invented and patented a wood that doesn't burn. We find out why he started this and what it is made of.

Malik Al Madan, Director of the Federal Competitiveness Strategy Department of the Federal Competitive and Statistics Authority, joins us to talk about The World Bank’s annual Ease of Doing Business report which has once again shown the UAE progressing up the ranks.