Sir Philip Green was born in 1952 in Croydon, England. He is the CEO of the Arcadia Group, a large retail company that owns stores like Topshop, BHS, and Dorothy Perkins. Green took over the family business at a young age after his father passed away.
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Philip Nigel Ross Green
2. Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green was born in 15
March 1952 in Croydon.
British businessman and the CEO of
the Arcadia Group, a retail giant that
includes Topshop,BHS and Dorothy
Perkin.
He is the son of a successful Jewish
property developer and retailer.
3. . His family moved to Hampstead Garden a
middle-class area in north London, and at
the age of nine he was sent to the Jewish
boarding school Carmel College in Oxford
shire.
After his father died of a heart attack, Green
was in line to inherit the family business at the
age of twelve.
4. After leaving boarding school at 15, he
worked for a shoe importer before
travelling to the US, Europe and the Far
East.
His first business with a 贈20,000
loan, importing jeans from the Far East to
sell on to retailers in London.
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