Businessmen Who Want to Change the World ; We Bring Together One of the Region's Most Prominent Entrepreneurs Sir Peter Vardy and One of Its Newest Chris Taylor and Give Them a Chance to Ask Each Other About Their Approach to Business

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SIR PETER VARDY started work at 16 in his father Reg's Ford dealership, where he swept floors and washed cars. He went on to run the Reg Vardy business, float it on the stock market in 1989, build it into one of the biggest in the country with a pounds 2bn turnover before selling it and its 100 sites for pounds 506m in 2006. Since then he has helped set his sons up in business, invest in companies, work with charities and set up Emmanuel Schools in Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Doncaster and soon in Blyth.

CHRIS TAYLOR also left school at 16, and taking his father's advice to serve an apprenticeship, he decided to be an electrician. Inspired early on by a school teacher who taught English by screening movies, Chris studied film production at Newcastle College, and after 12 months freelancing as a film maker/director, he set up his own company, Superkrush Films.

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Businessmen Who Want to Change the World ; We Bring Together One of the Region's Most Prominent Entrepreneurs Sir Peter Vardy and One of Its Newest Chris Taylor and Give Them a Chance to Ask Each Other About Their Approach to Business

Superkrush was set up to make commercial films, but quickly went on to include community film making, through not-for-profit company Engage TV.

Sir Peter Vardy asks Chris Taylor SPV: "I feel it is important to have a clear picture of where you are going, so where do you see your business in three years' time?" CT: "Steve Jobs from Apple once said, 'You are defined by the things you turned down'. We are now at a stage where we are making bolder decisions and doing what we feel is right and natural. Basically we tell entertaining stories...

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