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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 .
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IN FOCUS: If you wanted cheap and cheerful household musts or sneezed-upon pick ‘n’ mix, you headed to Wilko – which makes the shop’s potential demise so much sadder. Marie-Claire Chappet ...
LHR Holding Limited (trading TJ Hughes) is a British discount department store brand which first emerged in Liverpool in 1912.. Thomas John Hughes started the business on Liverpool's London Road after an apprenticeship with Owen Owen, eventually partnering with Owen Owen in 1925, which allowed him to expand the store into a department store.
John Antioco was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. [6] [7] His father was a milkman, whom Antioco would sometimes accompany on his morning delivery route. [8]He is a graduate of the New York Institute of Technology, where he earned a B.S. in Business Administration.
FirstPlus Financial Group was a Texas-based mortgage company.In 2011, a number of indictments and other legal actions showed that the firm had been taken over by Lucchese crime family [1] [2] by the use of threats and violence.
Jack Friedman (1939 – May 3, 2010) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, veteran of the toy and video game industries, and a philanthropist. Regarded as an influential member in the toy and video game industries, Friedman founded the three toy companies LJN, THQ, and Jakks Pacific; LJN and THQ later switched focus to video games.