Contracts with retailers all over the globe have made a success of Coventry-based IT consultancy PCMS, which is one of the world’s leading independent suppliers of IT services and software.Read
Woon Wing Yip OBE’s Chinese and oriental superstores now supply more than 2000 Chinese restaurants throughout the UK. His outlets employ well over 300 people.Read
Robbie Williams celebrated 2011 with his return to Take That, a Take That album and a spectacular Progress Live Tour which wowed fans across Europe in the summer.Read
The biggest thing to happen to legendary Brummie rocker Ozzy Osbourne in 2011 was the announcement that he is to hook-up with his former band-mates to reform the massively successful Black Sabbath.Read
Eric Grove’s Catesby Property Group wasn’t happy when the Government scrapped regional spacial strategies. Along with fellow developers Cala Homes and Colonnade they have challenged the move by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.Read
Folkes Holdings – 100 per cent owned by Constantine Folkes and his family - is one of the largest private property groups in the Midlands. The company combines property development and investment with Black Country metal bashing, and together they have been a source of wealth for Mr Folkes, who can trace his company back to 1697.Read
Alan Jackson founded Birmingham-based Intercity Mobile back in 1985, perfectly judging the surge in demand for mobile communications that accelerated in the 1990s and beyond.Read
Simon Clarke’s St Modwen regeneration specialists has returned to profit after taking a battering in the construction and property market downturn.Read
In November, Prof Jo Bradwell sold the majority of the shares in the medical diagnostics company which he founded to private investment group Nordic Capital. The company – The Binding Site Ltd – is one of the Midlands most successful companies. Prof Bradwell retains a small shareholding and remains on the board.Read
Wolves life president Sir Jack Hayward must be particularly pleased that his beloved football team is in safe hands under Steve Morgan. Sir Jack sold Wolves to him for £10 in 2007, on condition that he invest £30 million in the club.Read
Construction veteran David Wilson has made a success of his latest venture – Leicester-based Davidsons Developments – despite the slump in the building sector.Read
Assets at Kingswinford-based London and Cambridge Properties rose to close on £500 million in 2009-10, an increase of £80 million on the previous year. London and Cambridge is one of the UK’s largest private owners of retail and industrial property.Read
William Parente inherited 62,000 acres of the East Midlands, including the 15,000 acre Welbeck Abbey estate in Nottinghamshire, when his aunt, Lady Anne Cavendish Bentinck died in 2008.Read
Ranjit and Baljinder Boparan Singh’s 2 Sisters Food Group has had another good year and it looks like their £342 million acquisition of Northern Foods is already paying dividends.Read
When the recently-Virginised Northern Rock came crashing down financier Paul Ruddock’s Lansdowne Partners hedge fund made a reported £100 million profit for investors after betting on its collapse.
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Sir Paul Smith’s fashion products are now wholesaled in 35 countries around the world, but he still believes in getting personally involved in his growing company – both as designer and chairman.Read
