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Jo Bamford is heir to a multi-billion pound family fortune. [ 18 ] [ 41 ] His father, Lord Bamford , "is one of the U.K.'s most successful industrialists", [ 31 ] chairman of the UK's JCB Company , a manufacturer of excavators, earthmovers and farming equipment, with over 10,000 employees, [ 42 ] founded by Joseph Cyril Bamford in 1945. [ 43 ]
Joseph Bamford was born into a recusant Catholic family in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, which owned Bamfords Ltd, an agricultural engineering business. [2]His great-grandfather Henry Bamford [3] was born in Yoxall and had built up his own ironmongers business, which by 1881 employed 50 men, 10 boys and 3 women.
Bamford is married to Carole Whitt and they have 3 children, Joseph "Jo" Cyril Edward, George, and Alice. [39] Jo Bamford is also a businessman who founded a green hydrogen investment fund [40] after working at the family company. [41] In 2019 Jo purchased Northern Irish company Wrightbus, which manufactures buses, including London's double ...
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Frida relaunch in the U.S., CEO Chelsea Hirschhorn looks back at the "blind naivete" that let her believe the snotsucker could go mainstream.
The cruise industry was very different in 1970, catering to an estimated 500,000 passengers. Three decades later that had jumped to five million thanks, say industry experts, in large part to a ...
Carole Bamford (née Carole Gray Whitt [2]) was born in Nottingham. She is married to the billionaire industrialist Anthony, Lord Bamford. [3] The family business has made significant donations to the Conservative Party, in particular during the 2010 general election. [4] She married Bamford in June 1974. [2]
The CEO of investment firm Azoria lobbied DOGE figurehead Elon Musk to have the department issue stimulus checks from some of the claimed $55 billion in savings.
Simplified Wrightbus logo. Wrightbus is a Northern Irish bus manufacturer and a pioneer of the low-floor bus.The company was established in 1946 by Robert Wright and was later run by his son William Wright, until it was acquired in 2019 by British businessman Jo Bamford.