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Peter J. Nygård[ a] (born Pekka Juhani Nygård; born 24 July 1941) [ 1] is a Finnish-Canadian businessman and former fashion executive. In 1967, he founded Nygård International, a Winnipeg -based company that initially was a sportswear manufacturer before producing women's apparel. [ 2] He was rated the 70th richest Canadian by Canadian ...
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.
Lewis moved to London in the 1980s. [2] In 1985, he married Leola. [3] They have three adult children, and are now divorced. [2] [4] [3]Lewis is Jewish, and in 2011, his family donated £3 million to the University of Oxford to fund the appointment of a Professor of Israel Studies.
LONDON — British high street tycoon Sir Ralph Halpern, who helped transform the country’s retail industry in the booming ’80s and ’90s, died Aug. 10 at age 83. He was instrumental in the ...
The British tech tycoon made his riches by selling his company Autonomy to US computing giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011 for $11bn (£8.6bn).
In March, Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani threw a three-day prenuptial bash for his son that included a 1,200-person guest list, including former world leaders, tech tycoons and Bollywood's ...
An urban legend relating to the Robinsons Galleria flourished in the 1990s, which claimed of a half-snake, half-human creature that resided in the basement of the mall and purported to be a lucky charm installed by the Gokongwei family, feeding it with unsuspecting victims from a supposed shaft from a dressing room.
Carlos Slim Helú ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos esˈlin eˈlu; - esˈlim -]; [ 1] born 28 January 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. [ 2][ 3] From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by Forbes business magazine. [ 4][ 5] He derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a ...