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1 online resource (647 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; Chapter 1: KASHAN; Chapter 2: A PERSIAN CHILDHOOD; Chapter 3: THE BAZAAR; Chapter 4: MANCHESTER; Chapter 5: THOMAS HOGHTON; Chapter 6: TROUBLE AT T'MILL; Chapter 7: BUILDING A BUSINESS; Chapter 8: MY FATHER; Chapter 9: JACK MENAGED; Chapter 10: MAIL ORDER; Chapter 11: SPIRELLA; Chapter 12: BANKING; Chapter 13: TOY STORY; Chapter 14: VANTONA; Chapter 15: THE SHAH; Chapter 16: CARRINGTON VIYELLA; Chapter 17: HOMA; Chapter 18: THE JEWS OF ETHIOPIA; Chapter 19: RIDING THE WAVE; Chapter 20: NOTTINGHAM; Chapter 21: GUINNESS |
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Chapter 22: COATSChapter 23: GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES; Chapter 24: TOOTAL; Chapter 25: END OF THE LINE; Chapter 26: N BROWN; Chapter 27: IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH; POSTSCRIPT; INDEX; A, B, C; D, E, F; G, H, I; J, K, L; M, N, O; P, Q, R; S, T, U; V, W, X; Y, Z; Plates; Copyright |
| Summary |
At the age of thirteen, David Alliance was taken out of school by his father and apprenticed into the Grand Bazaar in Tehran, where he learned the business skills that were to prove invaluable in one of the most successful business careers of modern times. In 1950, with just £14 in his pocket, he arrived in Manchester in search of textile bargains, going hungry and sometimes forced to sleep on the street. Six years later, however, when he was still only twenty-four, he bought a loss-making textile mill, turned it around in six months and went on to build the biggest textile company in the West |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Alliance, David
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Businessmen -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Businessmen
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fallon, Ivan
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Mandelson, Peter
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| ISBN |
9781849548786 |
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1849548781 |
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