Alastair Dunbar Storey OBE (born January 1953) is a Scottish businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of

Westbury Street Holdings Westbury Street Holdings (WSH) is an English contract catering company. WSH was founded in 2000 by Alastair Storey, who is the company's chairman and chief executive (CEO). WSH owns BaxterStorey, Portico, Caterlink, Holroyd Howe, Benugo and S ...

(WSH), a contract

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, which he founded in 2000.

Early life

Storey was born in January 1953, in the village of Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, the son of a chartered accountant father who retired at 86. He was educated at

Robert Gordon's College Robert Gordon's College is a co-educational Independent school (UK) for day pupils in Aberdeen, Scotland. The school caters for pupils from Nursery through to S6. History Robert Gordon, an Aberdeen merchant, made his fortune in 18th century ...

in Aberdeen, followed by a bachelor's degree in hospitality and catering management at Strathclyde University, although he originally wanted to go to art school.

Career

In 1975, Storey joined P&O's Sutcliffe Catering Services as a trainee manager, rising to managing director of Sutcliffe Catering South East. In 1993, Granada bought Sutcliffe, and then Forte in 1996, and Storey became managing director of the newly formed Granada Food Services division. In 2000, Storey formed Wilson Storey with Keith Wilson, his former finance director, and after further mergers and acquisitions, Wilson Storey Halliday merged with BaxterSmith to become BaxterStorey in 2004. In 2012, Storey was ranked first in the '' Caterer and Hotelkeeper'' 100 list of the most influential people in the British hospitality industry, ending celebrity chef

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's two years at number one, and the first time the top position was given to someone in contract catering. WSH owns BaxterStorey,

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, Caterlink, Holroyd Howe,

Benugo Benugo (benúːgoʊ) is a British catering company. It operates high street cafes, restaurants, dining spaces inside public buildings as well as in-house corporate cafes. As of March 2014, Benugo had more than 70 individual locations; most of the ...

and

Searcys Searcys is a British catering company, founded in 1847 and operating 29 venues as of October 2016. Searcys was founded in 1847 by John Searcy, pastry chef to the Duke of Northumberland. In 2014, Westbury Street Holdings (WSH) acquired Searcys ...

, and its headquarters, WSH International Investments Limited, is in Reading, Berkshire. In 2016, Storey was appointed president of the

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. Storey was appointed

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(OBE) in the

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for services to the hospitality industry.

Personal life

Storey is married to Liz, whom he met at university. They have five children. He is a big Formula 1 motor racing fan, and took up skiing at the age of 50.

Arms

Storey matriculated arms in 2018.

References

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