New Cumnock News Spring 2020 ISSUE 4 FREE LOCAL KNIGHT, BILLIONAIRE AND PHILANTHROPIST: AN INTERVIEW WITH SIR TOM HUNTER Pupils from New In April 2007, Hunter was reported the back of a van. Tom built the in the Sunday Times Rich List as the business into...
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New Cumnock News Spring 2020 ISSUE 4 FREE LOCAL KNIGHT, BILLIONAIRE AND PHILANTHROPIST: AN INTERVIEW WITH SIR TOM HUNTER Pupils from New In April 2007, Hunter was reported the back of a van. Tom built the in the Sunday Times Rich List as the business into what was then Europe’s Cumnock Primary first ever home-grown billionaire in largest independent retailer, worth a School went to meet Scotland. He set up his first business with a £5,000 loan from his grocer staggering £290 million. But not just an incredibly the town's very own father Campbell and matching funds successful businesseman, Tom Knight, Sir Tom Hunter. from a bank, selling trainers from is also an active philanthropist. Inspired by his hero Andrew Carnegie, whose quote “a man who dies rich, dies disgraced” Hunter and his wife established The Hunter Foundation which supports educational and entrepreneurial projects in Scotland and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa in partnership with former President Bill Clint
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