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When Tony Wilkinson retired as chairman of Wilko after 45 years in June 2005, he was replaced by his niece, Karin Swann, and his daughter, Lisa Wilkinson. [3] In 2014, Karin Swann sold her family's 50% holding in the business to Lisa Wilkinson. [4] In May 2019, the Sunday Times Rich List estimated his net worth at £252 million. [5]
Wilko.com Limited (trading as Wilko) is a British home improvement and homeware retailer. It was founded as Wilkinson's by James Kemsey Wilkinson and Mary Cooper in 1930, opening its first store as a hardware retailer in Leicester .
James Kemsey "JK" Wilkinson (6 December 1906 – 18 December 1997) was an English businessman, the founder of the high street chain Wilko. In 2014, it was reported that Wilko had 372 stores, 23,000 employees and annual revenues of £1.5 billion. [2] Wilko collapsed into administration, on 10 August 2023. [3]
The C.T. Bauer College of Business is the business school of the University of Houston, and is fully accredited by the AACSB International. It offers BBA , MBA , MS Accountancy , MS Finance and the Houston metropolitan area's only Ph.D . program in business administration .
In 2017, alumni Larry and Beth Gies donated US$150M to the school, which was renamed the Gies College of Business in their honor. [14] [15] [16] In 2020, alumnus Don Edwards donated US$10 million [17] [18] and the business school also further received a pledge in 2020 for $2.5 million for construction of shared instructional facility. [19]
The D'Amore-McKim School of Business can trace its history back to the earliest days of Northeastern's existence, when commerce and industry courses were offered in 1907 by the School of Commerce and Finance of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). The fundamental aim of the school was to provide students with courses in commerce ...
It was founded as the first business school in the American South in 1912. The Terry College has 10 programs that have top 10 public rankings. [ 4 ] The Bachelor of Business Administration degree is recognized as a top 25 undergraduate program with a large residential enrollment, and the MBA Program is considered a top 27 graduate business program.
The LeBow College of Business (/ l ə ˈ b oʊ /), often referred to simply as Drexel LeBow, is the business school of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The school offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in business administration to nearly 4,000 students and encompasses an alumni network of more than 40,000 business professionals.