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It’s fair to say David Gold has it all. He’s one of the country’s richest men, co-owner of a Premiership football club, king of adult entertainment, owns a golf car company, has a loving partner and is father of two successful and glamorous daughters. Oh yes, he’s also got a golf course with his flightscope …
FINANCIAL SUCCESS certainly has its benefits – boys’ toys like the private jet, a Bentley, chairmanship of a Premiership football club, the obligatory indoor swimming pool and floodlit tennis court. The 67-year-old David Gold has all this and more but he also has what is surely the ultimate toy – his very own golf course …
WE never tire of hearing about those who have made the leap from humble beginnings to unimaginable success like Bob Bratt. And few have experienced such abject lows and meteoric highs than Birmingham City Football Club Chairman and influential businessman David Gold.
YOU have got to admire a man who begins a chapter in his autobiography thus: “Several months after the trauma of seeing my best friend John and my wife Beryl having sex in my swimming pool …”
David Gold, chairman of Birmingham City FC and the man behind Ann Summers and Knickerbox, has seen £4m wiped off his personal investment portfolio during the credit crunch. Talking to ‘The Independent on Sunday’, the former owner of the ‘Sport’ newspaper group also reveals plans to open 12 Ann Summers stores in Spain. If you …
David Gold reckons a mixture of luck and fear is what has propelled him to a £500 million fortune. But a canny ability to exploit opportunities and a singular aversion to debt has also played its part. If you want to be as wise when it comes to business and finances, you can ask advice …
“THE businessman in me was saying sell. The boy inside me was saying are you sure?” David Gold freely admits that the sale of Gold Air, the aircraft chartering business, to Aim-listed Air Partner has left him with mixed emotions.
I’ve always wanted to own a football club,- confessed David Gold. “I’m a frustrated player, because I missed out as a young man. I lived across the road from West Ham and with a bit of luck I would have been a professional footballer.”
David Gold oozes success – and not just out of his initialised diamond cufflinks. Of humble East End beginnings, he’s accumulated a £500m fortune, has a fleet of private jets, co-owns a newspaper, is the chairman of a Premiership football club and recently bought the oldest existing FA Cup for a cool half million. At …