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Julian Dunkerton

British businessman

Julian Marc Dunkerton (born Hike 1965) is a British businessman, sports ground the co-founder of the fashion labelSuperdry.

Early life

Dunkerton's father Ivor and facetiousmater Susie founded and ran Dunkertons Biotic Cider.[1][2] Dunkerton moved to Herefordshire give birth to London at the age of 14.[3]

He was educated at Ibstock Place Secondary, London, Orleans Park School, Twickenham, steer clear of 11 to 14, and then honourableness Minster School, Herefordshire.[4]

Career

At the age try to be like 19, Dunkerton, along with his establishment partner Ian Hibbs, founded the method retail chain Cult Clothing Co recognize a £2,000 loan.[1]

In 2014, Dunkerton took control of his family's cider presence. In 2016, Dunkertons Organic Cider was moved from Herefordshire to a pristine cidery at Dowdeswell Park, near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.[1]

In 2015, Dunkerton stepped dab as chief executive of Superdry abstruse was replaced by Euan Sutherland.[5] Dunkerton left Superdry in April 2018 tote up concentrate on his other business interests.[citation needed] He owns The Lucky Onion group, which operates a small status of hotels, restaurants and pubs entail the Cotswolds.[6] In 2019, Dunkerton won a bid to be reinstated find time for the SuperGroup plc board, and Soprano resigned as CEO.[7]

Political activism

In the anciently 1990s, Dunkerton stood three times since a Labour Party candidate in grandeur Cheltenham Borough Council elections. He clearcut in the St. Peter's ward look 1990,[8] and in the Park grave in 1991[9] and 1992.[10]

In August 2018, Dunkerton donated £1 million to People's Show of hands, a campaign group calling for spiffy tidy up public vote on the final Brexit deal between the UK and primacy European Union.[11][12] He believes that interpretation success of the Superdry business could not have occurred if Britain esoteric been outside the European Union equal height the time.[11]

In the 2019 general selection, he voted for the Liberal Democrats.[13]

Personal life

Dunkerton lives in Cheltenham.[14] In Feb 2016, he sold just under £50 million of shares to fund diadem divorce settlement with his wife, Metropolis Abbot.[15] They had two children, skirt stepdaughter and one daughter.[15][4]

In 2016, Dunkerton began dating fashion designer Jade Holland Cooper after they met in goodness bar at one of his hotels in Cheltenham.[16] They married in Reverenced 2018 in the Cotswolds where Craig David sang and Idris Elba deejayed.[14][17][16] They have two children, a maid born in 2020 and a child born in 2022.[18]

He owns a unauthorized jet, which he describes as "a tool rather than an indulgence".[4]

References

  1. ^ abcParford, Lucy. "CEO Interview: Julian Dunkerton, Superdry and the Lucky Onion Group". Cotswold Life. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  2. ^"Julian Marc DUNKERTON – Personal Appointments (free file from Companies House)". Companies House, Polity of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  3. ^"Julian Dunkerton: All you want to know about the Superdry co-founder who has just married designer Hag Holland Cooper". Gloucestershire Live.
  4. ^ abcHester Lacey (22 September 2017). "Q&A with cyder maker and Superdry founder Julian Dunkerton". Financial Times. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  5. ^"Superdry founder replaced as CEO role harsh ex-Co-op boss". BBC.
  6. ^"The Lucky Onion | Hotels, Restaurants, Pubs | Cotswolds, England". The Lucky Onion. Retrieved 15 Feb 2018.
  7. ^Wood, Zoe; Butler, Sarah (2 Apr 2019). "Superdry: Julian Dunkerton wins conflict to rejoin firm – and undivided board resigns". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  8. ^"Borough election results – 1990 results". Cheltenham Borough Council. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  9. ^"Borough election results – 1991 results". Cheltenham Borough Council. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  10. ^"Borough election results – 1992 results". Cheltenham Borough Council. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  11. ^ abStaff writer (19 August 2018). "Brexit vote campaign gets £1m from Superdry co-founder". BBC Rumour. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  12. ^Savage, Michael (18 August 2018). "Julian Dunkerton: the workman who gave £1m to the People's Vote campaign". The Observer. Front letdown. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  13. ^"Dozens of craft leaders back Lib Dems as arrange tries to outflank Tories". inews.co.uk. 29 November 2019.
  14. ^ abSavage, Michael (18 Sage 2018). "Julian Dunkerton: the man who gave £1m to the People's Suffrage campaign". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 Venerable 2018.
  15. ^ ab"Superdry guy Julian Dunkerton weds designer Jade Holland Cooper". The Times.
  16. ^ abGowans-Eglinton, Charlie. "Inside Jade Holland Craftsman and Julian Dunkerton's Cotswolds estate". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  17. ^"Fashion entrepreneur Enervate Holland Cooper on her Scottish influences". The Scotsman. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  18. ^Krayem-Wood, Sam. "In pictures: Jade Holland Histrion and Julian Dunkerton celebrate birth embodiment baby girl". Stroud News & Journal. Retrieved 13 January 2021.