Victoria Beckham Tops List as Britain’s Most Successful Entrepreneur
Spice Girls was a long time ago! According to Management Today magazine, Victoria Beckham is Britain’s most successful entrepreneur.
The 40-year-old former singer started
topped the list which had over 100 business people after her fashion
empire has grown over the years. She started her eponymous label in
2008, and has since then grown her staff base from 2 to 100, and had a
financial turn over from roughly £1 million to almost £20 million in 5
years.
According to Andrew Saunders of Management Today magazine, who compiled the list based on the past 5 years, told The Daily Telegraph – “She’s
got a real business, some design talent and some business nous. She
gets a lot of stick for being a celeb fashionista but I don’t think
that’s fair. She has built something real out of her own celebrity which
is quite a contemporary story. She deserves to be
celebrated.“
Victoria is married to football legend David Beckham with 4 kids – Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz & Harper.
She also launched her first stand alone
boutique in London last month and according to Management Today, has a
personal fortune of up to R3 million today which attributed to her top
spot placement.
To compile the list, the magazine took
factors like jobs created, overall estimated wealth and sales figures
over a five-year period. Others in the list include Amit & Meeta Patel (founders of pharmaceutical group Auden Mckenzie), and Mahmud Kamani of Boohoo.com took second and third place in the list.
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