TWENTY years after founding private equity firm Endless, Garry Wilson was last night named Ambassador of the year at the Yorkshire Business of the Year Awards. I was invited to join the Endless table at the awards run by TheBusinessDesk.com at New Dock Hall near the Royal Armouries in Leeds, but like the rest of […]
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“HAVE you got a cravat on?” “Pardon?” I responded to the person on the other end of the phone. “Me and Susan had a bet that you’d be wearing a cravat.” You take two flights halfway across Europe and you arrive in the Cote d’Azur to a question like that. Given it was a query
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ONE event I was unable to attend this week was the funeral of David Holmes. David was the former long-serving corporate affairs manager of Yorkshire Building Society. I first met him when I was working in London for the Western Mail in the late 1990s. He was warm, welcoming and generous and very popular with
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