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Andy Hornby
Andy Hornby (born 21 January 1967) is an English businessman, currently chief executive of The Restaurant Group, a British chain of restaurants and public houses. Biography Hornby was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, but brought up in Bristol, where his father was headteacher of Clifton College Preparatory School. Hornby is currently the chief executive of The Restaurant Group (TRG). Prior to joining TRG, Hornby was the co-chief operating officer at GVC Holdings. He had previously been the COO at Ladbrokes Coral, chief executive of Coral and the Chairman of Pharmacy2U. He had also served as Group chief executive of Alliance Boots and Group chief executive of Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS). He has also held a range of roles at Asda, including Retail managing director and managing director of "George" clothing. He has a degree in English literature from St Peter's College, Oxford, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated top of his class of 800 students ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Scarborough () is a seaside town and civil parish in North Yorkshire District, the district and North Yorkshire, county of North Yorkshire, England. With a population of 61,749, Scarborough is the largest town on the Yorkshire Coast and the North Yorkshire#Settlements, fourth-largest settlement in the county. It is located on the North Sea coastline. Historic counties of England, Historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town lies between 10 and 230 feet (3–70 m) above sea level, from the harbour rising steeply north and west towards limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour and is protected by a rocky headland which extends into the North Sea. The town has fishing and service industries, including a growing digital and creative economy, as well as being a tourist destination. Residents of the town are known as Scarborians. Etymology Scarborough was founded by Danes in the 10th century, when Thorgil (also known as Skarthi, meaning 'hare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George (clothing)
Asda Stores Limited (), trading as Asda and often styled as ASDA, is a British supermarket and petrol station chain. Its headquarters is in Leeds, England. The company was incorporated as Associated Dairies and Farm Stores in 1949. It expanded into Southern England during the 1970s and 1980s, and acquired Allied Carpets, 61 large Gateway Supermarkets and other businesses, such as MFI. It sold these acquisitions during the 1990s to concentrate on the supermarkets. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until 1999 when it was acquired by Walmart for £6.7 billion. Asda was the second-largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom between 2003 and 2014 by market share, at which point it fell into third place. As of January 2025 its market share in the UK is 12.6 per cent. Besides its core supermarkets, the company also acts as a white label payment card provider offering assistance for insurance and payment services under the Asda Money brand and also has a mobile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Pagni
Marco may refer to: People Given name * Marco (actor) (born 1977), South Korean model and actor Surname * Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess player of German origin * Jindřich Marco (1921–2000), Czechoslovak photographer and numismatist * Joseph Marco (born 1988), Filipino actor * Kenny Marco (1947–2025), Canadian guitarist. * María del Pilar Sinués de Marco (1835–1893), Spanish writer * Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish composer and writer on music Places * Marco, Ceará, Brazil, a municipality * Marco, New Zealand, a locality in the Taranaki Region * Marco, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated town * Marco, Missouri, United States, an unincorporated community * Marco Island, Florida, United States, a city and an island Science and technology * Mars Cube One (MarCO), a pair of small satellites which fly by Mars in 2018 * MARCO, a macrophage receptor protein that in humans is encoded by the MARCO gene * Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fairweather
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Hambl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Gourlay
Alex is a given name. Similar names are Alexander, Alexandra, Alexey or Alexis. People Multiple *Alex Brown (other), multiple people * Alex Cook (other), multiple people * Alex Forsyth (other), multiple people *Alexander Gardner (other), multiple people *Alex Gordon (other), multiple people *Alex Harris (other), multiple people *Alex Jones (other), multiple people *Alexander Johnson (other), multiple people * Alex Lee (other), multiple people *Alex Taylor (other), multiple people Politicians *Alex Allan (born 1951), British diplomat *Alex Attwood (born 1959), Northern Irish politician *Alex Kushnir (born 1978), Israeli politician *Alex Salmond (1954–2024), Scottish politician, former First Minister of Scotland Baseball players *Alex Avila (born 1987), American baseball player *Alex Bregman (born 1994), American baseball player *Alex Freeland (born 2001), American baseball player *Alex Gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ornella Barra
Ornella Barra (born 20 December 1953) is an Italian-born Monegasque businesswoman. A qualified pharmacist, she is chief operating officer, international of Walgreens Boots Alliance. She is married to the Italian billionaire Stefano Pessina. Biography Ornella Barra was born on 20 December 1953 in Chiavari, Genoa, northwest Italy,‘Biography’ ornellabarra.com into a family of entrepreneurs.Simon Bowers ‘Unichem's low-key Ornella Barra’ ''The Guardian'', 5 August 2005. Ornella graduated as a pharmacist from the University of Genoa in 1979. Career After b ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Pessina
Stefano Pessina (born 4 June 1941) is an Italian-Monegasque billionaire businessman; he is the executive chairman and largest single shareholder of Walgreens Boots Alliance. Early life Pessina was born in Pescara and grew up between Milan, Como, and Naples. He graduated from the Polytechnic University of Milan in nuclear engineering before starting his career in academia and later joining market research firm ACNielsen in Milan. He wanted to be a nuclear physicist but was discouraged by the tumultuous political climate of 1970s. Career In 1977, Pessina took over his family's pharmaceutical wholesaler (possibly Petrone Group) in Naples, and turned it into Alliance Santé, a Franco-Italian pharmaceutical wholesale group. In 1997, it merged with Alliance UniChem. From 2001 to 2004, he was its CEO. He was deputy chairman, and later chairman. The company merged with Boots Group PLC in 2006 and was taken private in July 2007. Pessina was chairman of Alliance Boots from 2007 to 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GVC Holdings
Entain plc, formerly GVC Holdings, is an international sports betting and gambling company. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It owns brands such as bwin, Coral, Ladbrokes, PartyPoker, and Sportingbet. History The company was incorporated in Luxembourg in 2004 as Gaming VC Holdings S.A. It was founded by a group of four American businesspersons, led by Steve Barlow, as a vehicle to acquire Casino-Club, an online casino established in 2001 that was reportedly the largest online gambling operator in German-speaking countries. The company made its initial public offering on the AIM exchange on 21 December 2004, raising funds that were used to complete the €105-million acquisition of Casino-Club on the same day. In 2010, Gaming VC was reorganised in the Isle of Man as GVC Holdings. In 2012, GVC and William Hill bought Sportingbet, with William Hill taking the Australian and Spanish markets, and GVC taking the rest of the worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladbrokes Coral
Ladbrokes Coral is a British gambling company. Its product offering includes sports betting, online casino, online poker, and online bingo. The Ladbrokes portion of the group was established in 1886, and Coral in 1926. In November 2016, the companies merged to create Ladbrokes Coral Group. Since March 2018, it has been owned by Entain. Prior to its sale, Ladbrokes Coral was listed on the London Stock Exchange, and was a member of the FTSE 250 Index. History The company was founded by Messrs. Schwind and Pennington in 1886, as commission agents for horses trained at Ladbroke Hall in Warwickshire. The name Ladbrokes was adopted in 1902, when Arthur Bendir joined the partnership, and operations were moved to London. Ladbrokes' London offices were first in the vicinity of the Strand, moved to Hanover Square in 1906 and, in 1913, to Six Old Burlington Street, Mayfair. From 1913 to 1956, Ladbrokes' clientele was exclusively drawn from the British aristocracy and upper classes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pharmacy2U
Pharmacy2U is a British online pharmacy company, which manages NHS repeat prescriptions on behalf of patients. History Pharmacy2U was founded by pharmacist Daniel Lee in November 1999, and launched to the public in June 2000. The British Medical Association initially had concerns about the use of internet prescribing and wanted to know more about Pharmacy2U's service. The chairman of the BMA's prescribing committee, George Rae, said "I would advise against getting private prescriptions over the internet because the patient's GP is not involved". By July 2000, the council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society had established the standards of professional practice for those who wished to provide pharmaceutical services via the internet. By August 2000, Pharmacy2U was one of the founding members of the European Association of Mail Service Pharmacies. Pharmacy2U was involved in the first pilots to trial the electronic transfer of prescriptions (EPS) which went live in June 2002. Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GUS Plc
Gus is a masculine name, often a diminutive for Angus, August, Augustine, Gustave, Constantine, Konstantinos, Augusten, Gustavo, Gusten, Augustus, Aengus, Argus, Fergus, Gustav, Gustafson, Ferguson, and Gussie). It can also be used as the adaptation into English of the popular Greek name (of Latin origin) Kostas or Konstantinos (Constantin), especially amongst Greek immigrants in English-speaking countries, probably due to similarity in the sound. For Italian-Americans, Gus is short for Gaspare. Gus may refer to: People Given name * Gus Arnheim (1897–1955), American pianist, bandleader and songwriter * Gus Boulis (1949–2001), Greek male murder victim * Gus Edwards (vaudeville) (1878–1945), German-born American songwriter, vaudevillian and music producer, born Gustave Schmelowsky * Gus Edwards (American football) (born 1995), American football player * Gus Elen (1862–1940), English music hall singer and comedian, born Ernest Augustus Elen * Gus Greenbaum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Retail Group
Home Retail Group plc was a British retail company established on 10 October 2006, following the spin-off of GUS (retailer)#Other retail and manufacturing growth, Argos Retail Group (ARG) from GUS (retailer), GUS plc. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The group primarily comprised two retailers: Argos (retailer), Argos and Homebase, as well as in-house brands such as Chad Valley (toy brand), Chad Valley and Habitat (retailer), Habitat. In April 2007, the group bought a stake in the Irish 'Home Store + More' chain and established its UK business, closing this in 2012 and selling their stake in 2013. In February 2016. Home Retail Group sold Homebase to Australian-based Wesfarmers. In April 2016, it was announced that Home Retail Group would sell itself to British supermarket Sainsbury's for £1.4 billion. History Predecessor as Argos Retail Group (2000–2006) GUS (retailer), GUS plc acquired Argos in April 1998, and combined it with its mail order business to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
