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The Apprentice winner Karishma was best candidate Lord Sugar’s picked in 20 years

The Apprentice winner Karishma was best candidate Lord Sugar’s picked in 20 years

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Let’s be honest – no Apprentice 2026 candidate stood a chance against Karishma Vijay, arguably the best contestant the BBC show has ever had. The 29-year-old beauty brand owner secured Lord Sugar’s £250,000 investment for her skincare business, which she launched after discovering a “cure” for her acne – and it was glaringly inevitable from week one that she would win the series. In all 20 years of the show, there has not been a contestant who has exuded such likeability, justifiable confidence, and, believe it or not, common sense. Not even her finale rival Pascha Myhill, whose evolution throughout the series was a joy to watch, could rival Karishma. Pascha – the show’s youngest contestant at 21 – was seeking investment for her recruitment business and, in the last episode, nailed a pitch to a room filled with business experts, which, …

The Apprentice 2026 winner revealed: Karishma Vijay opens up on rollercoaster journey to Lord Sugar’s investment

The Apprentice 2026 winner revealed: Karishma Vijay opens up on rollercoaster journey to Lord Sugar’s investment

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Karishma Vijay, the newly crowned winner of The Apprentice, has expressed profound gratitude for her participation, crediting the BBC business show with transforming her life. The 28-year-old beauty entrepreneur triumphed in an all-female final on Thursday, securing Lord Sugar’s coveted investment after a competitive showdown against fellow finalist Pascha Myhill. Her victory follows another significant personal milestone, as Ms Vijay recently announced her engagement on social media, sharing photographs with her fiancé. Reacting to her win, Vijay said: “I actually can’t believe my life right now. Things keep happening. I’m just having a really good week. “I think people are happy to see me happy. A couple of years ago, I was single, I called off a wedding, ran away from it all – very dramatic, Bollywood movie-esque. “Now, I’m here with my happy ending and also a lot of money …

Who won The Apprentice 2026? Lord Sugar’s next business partner revealed

Who won The Apprentice 2026? Lord Sugar’s next business partner revealed

Published by Daniella Wilson

After 12 tough weeks, the final of The Apprentice arrived as the remaining two candidates went head-to-head in a battle to win Lord Alan Sugar’s investment. Earlier this year, a whopping 20 candidates entered the infamous boardroom, all armed with stacked business plans and dreams of becoming his next business partner, as well as a £250,000 cash injection into their business. But as the weeks went on, the candidates began to drop like flies until just two – Pascha Myhill and Karishma Vijay – remained in the running. And after much deliberation in the boardroom, Karishma Vijay was crowned the winner of this year’s This Apprentice. Karishma Vijay. BBC/Naked (A Freemantle Label)/Ray Burmiston Tonight’s episode saw the finalists launch their business to a room full of industry experts and some legends from the last 20 years, including Margaret Mountford and Nick Hewer and three incredible past season winners, Dr Leah Totton, Ricky Martin and Dean Franklin. They then returned to the boardroom one last time, as Lord Sugar, Karren Brady and Tim Campbell all deliberated and …

The Apprentice review – Lord Sugar’s ‘I’ve got better places to be’ routine is becoming preposterous

The Apprentice review – Lord Sugar’s ‘I’ve got better places to be’ routine is becoming preposterous

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter “A lot has changed in the past 20 years,” admits Alan Sugar, in the first episode of The Apprentice’s 20th series. “There have been financial crashes, and pandemics… not to mention Liz Truss.” And yet, of course, not everything has changed – a fact made abundantly clear by The Apprentice itself, as soon as this year’s class of wannabe moguls walk through the doors of the boardroom. Two decades in, the BBC’s annual spectacle of entrepreneur-on-entrepreneur pugilism is necktie-deep in a rut. The series premiere centres on an archetypical Apprentice task, atreasure hunt with a far-flung twist: the 20 contestants are divided by gender into two competing teams and flown out to Hong Kong. There, they must race to acquire a list of items, such as a mahjong set and shrimp paste (without using Google, as anyone in real life automatically …

How SAP Cloud ERP enabled Western Sugar’s move to AI-driven automation

How SAP Cloud ERP enabled Western Sugar’s move to AI-driven automation

Published by skeptic

Presented by SAP Ten years ago, Western Sugar made a decision that would prove prescient: move from on-premise SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. At the time, artificial intelligence wasn’t a priority on most roadmaps. The company was simply trying to escape what Director of Corporate Controlling, Richard Caluori, calls “a trainwreck:” a heavily customized ERP system so laden with custom ABAP code that it had become unupgradable. Today, that early cloud adoption is proving to be the foundation for Western Sugar’s AI transformation. As SAP accelerates its rollout of business AI capabilities across finance, supply chain, HR, and more, Western Sugar finds itself uniquely positioned to take advantage of the technology. “We didn’t move to the cloud thinking about AI,” Caluori says. “But that decision to embrace clean core principles and standardized processes turned out to be exactly what we needed when AI capabilities became available. The clean data, the standardized workflows, the disciplined processes, all of that groundwork we laid for basic operational reasons is now the foundation that makes AI …