About John Ashcroft
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John Ashcroft was Chief Executive of pro-manchester for nine years up to October 2018. He is author of the Saturday Economist, Dimensions of Strategy and Monday Morning Markets. Strategy Case Studies published to date include, Apple, Lego. Twitter, Yahoo and Fitbit with more planned for 2018! The group publishes over 15 million emails every year to a readership of over 50,000 businesses.
Educated at the London School of Economics, London Business School and with a PhD in Economics from Manchester Metropolitan University, John is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a companion of the British Institute of Management and a member of the Society of Professional Economists.
Over the years John has worked with Bain and Company, Goldman Sachs, S.G. Warburgs, Wasserstein Perella and First Boston completing over sixty corporate finance transactions. The largest deal valued at one billion Dollars in 1987.
With extensive experience of business and corporate finance, in the 1980’s he was regarded as one of Margaret Thatcher’s favourite business men and a regular visitor to Downing Street.
In the 1980s under John’s leadership, as MD, then Chief Executive and Chairman, Coloroll grew from a small family business with revenues of £6 million, to an international public company with revenues of over £600 million.
A prominent feature in the Manchester and North West business scene, John was founding Chairman of the North West Business Leadership Team, has served on the board of Marketing Manchester, the CA Business Leadership Council and as Chief Economist for the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce.
Download the extract from THE NEW TYCOONS, published in 1989 for more of the background story!
Check out the Coloroll Great Growth Story from £6 million to £600 million in 12 years The Success we enjoyed and the mistakes we made along the way.
John Ashcroft and Company, Economics, Strategy and Social Media ... Lot's of Business Experience worth sharing!
Dr John Ashcroft PhD, BSc,(Econ) FRSA, CBIM.
Educated at the London School of Economics, London Business School and with a PhD in Economics from Manchester Metropolitan University, John is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a companion of the British Institute of Management and a member of the Society of Professional Economists.
Over the years John has worked with Bain and Company, Goldman Sachs, S.G. Warburgs, Wasserstein Perella and First Boston completing over sixty corporate finance transactions. The largest deal valued at one billion Dollars in 1987.
With extensive experience of business and corporate finance, in the 1980’s he was regarded as one of Margaret Thatcher’s favourite business men and a regular visitor to Downing Street.
In the 1980s under John’s leadership, as MD, then Chief Executive and Chairman, Coloroll grew from a small family business with revenues of £6 million, to an international public company with revenues of over £600 million.
A prominent feature in the Manchester and North West business scene, John was founding Chairman of the North West Business Leadership Team, has served on the board of Marketing Manchester, the CA Business Leadership Council and as Chief Economist for the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce.
Download the extract from THE NEW TYCOONS, published in 1989 for more of the background story!
Check out the Coloroll Great Growth Story from £6 million to £600 million in 12 years The Success we enjoyed and the mistakes we made along the way.
John Ashcroft and Company, Economics, Strategy and Social Media ... Lot's of Business Experience worth sharing!
Dr John Ashcroft PhD, BSc,(Econ) FRSA, CBIM.
John Ashcroft : The New Tycoons 1989 Extract Download the PDF to get the Full Story!
The New Tycoons: they are the newcomers, the people who have challenged the status quo, and from their ranks will be drawn the leading business figures of the 1990s. In the process they have changed the image of the businessman. Gone is the grey-haired corpulent figure in his fifties sitting at his desk. His replacement is young and fit, working from a mobile telephone and a fax machine in his car. Increasingly “he” is a woman.
The men and women in this book exemplify the new spirit of entrepreneurial success. They are the younger generation: the people in their 30’s and 40’s who have brought their companies through the infant stage in which so many entrepreneurs get stuck, to maturity. Marshalling the huge financial muscle power of the City of London, they have taken their businesses from obscurity to the centre stage of British business. Many of them are “driven”, not just by the thirst for material wealth, but also to prove themselves to the world and create something substantial out of nothing. Some, like Martin Sorrell of WPP have done this with amazing speed.
Their achievements are remarkable. From tiny beginnings at the start of the decade have sprung up vibrant young companies like Body Shop International and Sock Shop International. Businesses like Williams Holdings, Amstrad and Carlton Communications have transformed themselves from obscurity into billion pound combines. Sleepy family firms such as Coloroll, Ratners and Albert Fisher have become market leaders in their fields.
At the start of1985, the combined market value of the 11 companies in this book was well under £1 billion. Four years later they were
worth over £5 billion. Their activities, once confined to the ghetto of the business pages, now make front-page news. As well as making fortunes for themselves and their shareholders, they have helped change the way we live. Tony Millar brings exotic fruit to our supermarkets; Anita Roddick produces cruelty-free cosmetics from plant extracts and John Ashcroft, ranges of co-ordinated wallpaper, china, curtains and carpets to our homes. Alan Sugar has revolutionised the lives of hundreds of thousands by making home computers and word processors available to the masses, while John and Peter Beckwith develop stylishly designed offices and shopping centres.
They are the outsiders who have come inside, one time nobodies whose influence is now felt in the highest places, employees who have become substantial employers, ordinary people who are now millionaires. They are the New Tycoons!
The New Tycoons: they are the newcomers, the people who have challenged the status quo, and from their ranks will be drawn the leading business figures of the 1990s. In the process they have changed the image of the businessman. Gone is the grey-haired corpulent figure in his fifties sitting at his desk. His replacement is young and fit, working from a mobile telephone and a fax machine in his car. Increasingly “he” is a woman.
The men and women in this book exemplify the new spirit of entrepreneurial success. They are the younger generation: the people in their 30’s and 40’s who have brought their companies through the infant stage in which so many entrepreneurs get stuck, to maturity. Marshalling the huge financial muscle power of the City of London, they have taken their businesses from obscurity to the centre stage of British business. Many of them are “driven”, not just by the thirst for material wealth, but also to prove themselves to the world and create something substantial out of nothing. Some, like Martin Sorrell of WPP have done this with amazing speed.
Their achievements are remarkable. From tiny beginnings at the start of the decade have sprung up vibrant young companies like Body Shop International and Sock Shop International. Businesses like Williams Holdings, Amstrad and Carlton Communications have transformed themselves from obscurity into billion pound combines. Sleepy family firms such as Coloroll, Ratners and Albert Fisher have become market leaders in their fields.
At the start of1985, the combined market value of the 11 companies in this book was well under £1 billion. Four years later they were
worth over £5 billion. Their activities, once confined to the ghetto of the business pages, now make front-page news. As well as making fortunes for themselves and their shareholders, they have helped change the way we live. Tony Millar brings exotic fruit to our supermarkets; Anita Roddick produces cruelty-free cosmetics from plant extracts and John Ashcroft, ranges of co-ordinated wallpaper, china, curtains and carpets to our homes. Alan Sugar has revolutionised the lives of hundreds of thousands by making home computers and word processors available to the masses, while John and Peter Beckwith develop stylishly designed offices and shopping centres.
They are the outsiders who have come inside, one time nobodies whose influence is now felt in the highest places, employees who have become substantial employers, ordinary people who are now millionaires. They are the New Tycoons!
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