Top 3 UK Businessmen/women

[realityhack]

I won't post My Lunch threads for a month now...

Keep up that kind of attitude and we'll all vote for you.

Congrats on the good press btw Mr Squirrel. Keep it up.
I still say you need to invest in some proper marketing/design.

[realityhack]

James Martin

The chef?

[AtW]

Congrats on the good press btw Mr Squirrel. Keep it up.
I still say you need to invest in some proper marketing/design.

Oh we are, just getting first things done first, some really Big SKA news pending ...

[Alf W]

I would have had James Dyson down were he not a greedy sh1t-house that made 800 people redundant when he offshored production.

[TimberWolf]

I would have had James Dyson down were he not a greedy tulip-house that made 800 people redundant when he offshored production.

I read his autobiography and came away with the distinct impression that he was a nasty bit of tulip. Although it's possible I suspected it before reading his book.

[thunderlizard]

The chef?

No, not the chef! The real James Martin

[TimberWolf]

Inspired by the survey (sticky: national freelancers day), I'm interested in the panel's view on their favourite UK businessmen/women, and why.

I found this one quite hard to answer. One choice was Richard Branson - purely because he's a plucky, winsome chap. The other would be James Dyson, for the grassroots beginnings and engineer's determination, but the third crown is either for the head of the Co-op, or the John Lewis Partnership, for their ethical leadership in UK industry.

Thoughts?

Pass

[AtW]

I would have had James Dyson down were he not a greedy tulip-house that made 800 people redundant when he offshored production.

Do you think that manufacturing is a viable option in UK with all the employment taxes, currency risk etc? He wasn't the first to close his factory - if he was greedy he'd jump on it long time ago.

I don't know all the details to be certain, but it seems to me it is a bit premature to blame his greed for that decision.

[HairyArsedBloke]

The chef?

No, not the chef! The real James Martin

Isn't he the one who shot that pikey kid?

[realityhack]

No, not the chef! The real James Martin

Aha. Interesting chap. Thanks for the link.