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Philip Green. Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green (born 15 March 1952) is a British businessman who was the chairman of the retail company Arcadia Group. He owned the high street clothing retailers Topshop, Topman, and Miss Selfridge from 2002 to 2020. In May 2023, his net worth was estimated by the Sunday Times Rich List to be £910 million.
Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp (brother-in-law) Michael Lewis (born 1959) is a South African-born British businessman in the fashion industry, and chairman of Foschini Group .
Business magnate. A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the creation or ownership of multiple lines of enterprise. The term characteristically refers to a powerful entrepreneur and investor who controls, through personal enterprise ownership or a dominant shareholding ...
In June 2017 LetterOne's L1 Retail division acquired Holland & Barrett, Europe's largest health-food store chain, for £1.8 billion ($2.3 billion). Also in 2017 Fridman, via LetterOne, invested $3 billion in Pamplona Capital Management, [123] [169] a private-equity firm that was founded by Alexander Knaster , the former CEO of Alfa-Bank, and ...
Tiffany & Company, Union Square, Manhattan, storage area with porcelain, c. 1887. Tiffany & Co. was founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young, [15] in New York City, as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium", with the help of Charles Tiffany's father, who financed the store for only $1,000 with profits from a cotton mill. [16 ...
John Peterman (born 1941) is an American catalog and retail entrepreneur from Lexington, Kentucky, who operates the J. Peterman Company. He grew up in West Nyack, New York as the son of a banker and secretary. He is known for founding the J. Peterman Company after finding a cowboy duster on a business trip.
The Last Tycoon is an American television series, originating from a pilot produced in 2016 as part of Amazon Studios ' seventh pilot season. The show stars Matt Bomer and Kelsey Grammer and is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald 's last book, the unfinished and posthumously published 1941 novel The Last Tycoon.
RollerCoaster Tycoon is a series of construction and management simulation games about building and managing an amusement park. Each game in the series challenges players with open-ended amusement park management and development, and allowing players to construct and customize their own unique roller coasters and other thrill rides .