NW business giants to speak at Manchester Business School

Sir Jim Ratcliffe

PETER Hargreaves, of investment adviser Hargreaves Lansdowne and Jim Ratcliffe of petrochemicals giant Inoes will both be speaking at Manchster Business School in September.

In conversation with Dominic O’Connell, business editor of The Sunday Times, each will talk about  ‘How two entrepreneurs outsmarted their big business rivals and built billion-pound companies.’
Lancashire-born Peter Hargreaves CBE started a FTSE 100 financial services giant from his spare bedroom with business partner Stephen Lansdown in 1981. The pair built up the investment adviser Hargreaves Lansdown then floated it on the stock market in 2007. Hargreaves, 68, stepped down this year as an executive director of Hargreaves Lansdown.
Jim Ratcliffe, 62, built up Ineos from scratch. The petrochemicals giant now enjoys sales of £35bn and employs 17,000 people at 51 manufacturing sites in 11 countries. He studied chemical engineering at Birmingham University before joining Esso. After taking an MBA at London Business School, Ratcliffe joined Courtaulds and then went into private equity. He set out on his own in 1998 with Ineos, which has taken on the assets of such households names as BASF, BP and ICI.
The free event takes place on September 8, 5.45pm to 8pm. To book a place email events@mbs.ac.uk

 

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