Last Updated: 30 Mar, 2024 | Views: 120
Age: 77
Profession: Business Men
Other Profession(s): Celebrity, Author, Entrepreneur, Media Personality, Business magnate
Famous For: Chairman of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
Higher Education: Brooke House Secondary School
Net Worth: $1.3 Billion
About (Profile/Biography):
On March 24, 1947, in Hackney, East London, England, Alan Sugar was born. Nathan Sugar was an East End tailor in the apparel industry. Alan Sugar was his son. In Upper Clapton, Hackney, Alan Sugar enrolled in Northwold Primary School and later Brooke House Secondary School. He also worked as a greengrocer to supplement his income. For a brief period, Alan Sugar was employed by the Ministry of Education as a statistician in the civil service.
Alan Sugar Career:
Alan Sugar Start Amstrad:
• In 1968, at the age of 21, Alan Sugar used £100 in savings from the Post Office to launch Amstrad.
• Selling radio aerials for automobiles and other electrical goods, Alan Sugar first operated out of a van he had purchased for £50 and had insurance for £8.
Alan Sugar Listed on the London Stock Exchange:
• Amstrad increased its profit and market value annually throughout the 1980s, and Alan Sugar was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1980.
• In 1984, Amstrad introduced the Amstrad CPC 464, an 8-bit computer, after seeing the potential of the home computer age.
Alan Sugar Released the PenPad, a PDA:
• In 1993, Alan Sugar moved away from computers and toward telecoms by releasing the PenPad, a PDA, and investing in Betacom and Viglen.
• The e-m@iler, the first of Alan Sugar's hybrid email and phone devices, was released.
Alan Sugar teamed up with Terry Venables:
• In June 1991, Alan Sugar and Terry Venables acquired Tottenham Hotspur.
• Tottenham Hotspur only won one trophy—the 1999 League Cup—and did not place among the top six in the league during Alan Sugar's nine years as chairman.
Alan Sugar Established Other Ventures:
• Amsair Executive Aviation was established by Alan Sugar. Amsair has one Embraer Legacy 650 and a sizable fleet of Cessnas. Daniel Sugar, Sugar's son, is currently in charge of the real estate investment company Alan Sugar.
• The proprietor, Alan Sugar, runs an IT services company with a focus on the public and educational sectors. Amscreen, a business his son Simon runs that specializes in selling advertising space on digital signs panels, is chaired by Alan Sugar.
Alan Sugar Unknown Facts:
• For sending antisemitic murder threats to Alan Sugar in February 2022, 70-year-old Patrick Gomes was sentenced to three years and six months in prison.
• Alan Sugar declared in December 2020 that COVID-19 that the lives of both his sister and brother gone due to COVID.
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