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William Van Rest, the former ITV execs who helped Love Island make millions through merchandising, has set up his own business, Jem Media Ventures.

ITV made big bucks from Love Island brand extensions, and the man behind the merchanise millions has now launched his own company. William Van Rest has set up…

Rise of one-stop recruitment shops aided by shift online In 2006, when Edwin van Rest stepped off the plane at Schiphol (Amsterdam) after studying in Osaka, Japan, for two years he expected that his new masters in industrial engineering would be the ticket to his career. Within a year, however, driven by his friends’ reactions – typified by, “Wow, I wish I had known about those opportunities to study abroad”– to his stories of being immersed in a different culture, he and two friend...