Stagecoach: A Classic Rags to Riches Tale from the Frontiers of Capitalism - Softcover

Wolmar, Christian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752830880 ISBN 13: 9780752830889

Publisher: Orion Business (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2000

Synopsis

The rise and rise of Stagecoach is an emblematic rags-to-riches story of the Conservative era of the 1980s and 1990s. This book tells the story of how the two founders, the brother and sister team of Brian Souter and Ann Gloag, emerged from humble beginnings on a bleak Perth council estate to become muliti-millionaires, worth over #300 million apiece. Based on exclusive interviews with Souter and other main players and critics, this is a story of one of the most unlikely successes.

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Review

Anyone who thinks that the Scots have lost their entrepreneurial flair should read this riveting account of the birth and growth of the Stagecoach empire - one of the most extraordinary business success stories of the post-Thatcher era. -- Magnus Linklater, former Editor of The Scotsman and Times columnist

Corporate cowboys or genuine geniuses - or maybe both? Christian Wolmar gives an honest and illuminating account of how Brian Souter and Ann Gloag have made Stagecoach the greatest start-up business of the Conservative years. -- Hamish McRae, The Independent

About the Author

Christian Wolmar is a writer and journalist. He was previously Transport Correspondent for The Independent and The Independent on Sunday and now contributes regularly to The Evening Standard, The New Statesman and Rail Magazine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion Business (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752830880
• ISBN 13: 9780752830889
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288