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Daniel O'Neill founder at ProCook Gloucester ProCook was founded more than 20 years ago. Today it has a store at homewares business, now based in its 41,000 sq ft headquarters at Gateway 12 Business Park, near Junction 12 of the M5 l 19 Gloucester Quays outlet and a chain of others in the likes of Swindon, Cardiff, Bridgend, and Street in Somerset, but it also shines online. Founder Daniel O'Neill has built a thriving
Brian Bennett Vantage Point Business Park Mitcheldean, Forest of Dean
Patel family Yusuf, 68, Ibrahim, 65, Yakub, 70, and Mohamed Patel, 80 of what it has put back into Gloucester. The family also run an investment company, called Patel Brothers Ltd, which has substantial assets - “wise investments in property”, as one of the judges called them. “They have created something fantastic that family. They have also put a lot back into that community locally” l 20 This is the family behind one of Gloucester’s business success stories - TheWeavers Shop and Carpet Warehouse, Eastern Avenue, Gloucester. Numerous people came back at us with the Patel family as a must for the list – not least because As legend has it, Mr Bennett bought Vantage Business Park when major employer Xerox quit the site, leaving many without work. Offered a chance to turn it into houses instead, he opted for what it has become today – the district’s biggest business park and created hundreds of jobs in the process. According to Company Check, Brian John Bennett holds 28 appointments at 28 active companies. The longest current appointment spans 27 years, 8 months and 20 days at BMJ International Limited. “The combined cash at bank value for all businesses where Brian holds a current appointment equals £1m, a combined total of current assets value of £74.7m, with a total current liabilities of £52.8m and a total current net worth of £48.9m” l
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