Business news for Fri, 28 Mar 2008 & with word entrepreneur. 4 news.

Robert Tchenguiz, the property entrepreneur facing heavy losses on stakes in retailer J Sainsbury and pub group Mitchells & Butlers, accusing the boards of both companies of failing to maximise shareholder value from their property assets

Vincent Tchenguiz, the property entrepreneur, is seeing parallels between the markets now and the recession in the early 1990s, when his property holdings were almost wiped out by the fall in asset values

With energy prices soaring, affordable solar power would be welcomed by any entrepreneur looking to trim the electric bill. Trouble is, power generated by the most widely available technology - panels covered with photovoltaic (PV) systems, which translate sunlight into AC current - still costs two to three times more than electricity generated from coal and other fossil fuels. That may be about to change.

Pontin's has been sold for ?46m to a company controlled by Graham Parr, the entrepreneur who started his career as a Bluecoat at the holiday camps operator.