Peter Rigby
Encyclopedia
Sir Peter Rigby is a British
Entrepreneur
, owner of IT
company SCC
and one of Britain's richest people.
rise to £2.038 billion (2005). He claims that if SCC were a public company
, turnover would be as much as £14 billion. SCC is now the largest privately owned technology company in Europe.
His two sons, James (UK MD), Steven Rigby (European GM) are both senior directors on the board of SCC, while Sir Peter remains chairman and group CEO.
, with a view to moving from freight-only to serving business passengers and helicopters.
Sir Peter also owns the luxury hotel group Eden Hotel Collection, of which Mallory Court in Leamington was named "Most Excellent Hotel in the United Kingdom and Ireland" for 2009 by magazine Condé Nast
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estimates Sir Peter to be worth £430m, based on his corporate investments. This ranks him as the 158th richest person in Britain. While his fortune has been rising over the last few years through the rigorous acquisition of European IT companies, his position on the rich list ladder has gradually slipped from a peak of 61st in 2003.
The Birmingham Post
also publishes a rich list, specifically for residents of the West Midlands. Sir Peter is at number 29 for 2010.
United Kingdom
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Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
, owner of IT
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
company SCC
SCC (Specialist Computer Centres)
Specialist Computer Centres is an information technology services firm, mainly catering for very large companies and public sector bodies. Headquartered in Tyseley, Birmingham, UK, it is Europe's largest privately owned technology company in terms of revenue and is Hewlett-Packard's largest...
and one of Britain's richest people.
Specialist Computer Centres
Peter Rigby founded Specialist Computer Centres (SCC) in 1975 with an initial cash investment of just £2,000. Rigby has maintained control of the company over 30 years of sustained growth and has seen SCC's turnoverRevenue
In business, revenue is income that a company receives from its normal business activities, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers. In many countries, such as the United Kingdom, revenue is referred to as turnover....
rise to £2.038 billion (2005). He claims that if SCC were a public company
Public company
This is not the same as a Government-owned corporation.A public company or publicly traded company is a limited liability company that offers its securities for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, or through market makers operating in over the counter markets...
, turnover would be as much as £14 billion. SCC is now the largest privately owned technology company in Europe.
His two sons, James (UK MD), Steven Rigby (European GM) are both senior directors on the board of SCC, while Sir Peter remains chairman and group CEO.
Other activities
In April 2010 Sir Peter's Patriot Aviation Group bought Coventry AirportCoventry Airport
Coventry Airport is located south southeast of Coventry city centre, in the village of Baginton, Warwickshire, England, and about outside Coventry boundaries...
, with a view to moving from freight-only to serving business passengers and helicopters.
Sir Peter also owns the luxury hotel group Eden Hotel Collection, of which Mallory Court in Leamington was named "Most Excellent Hotel in the United Kingdom and Ireland" for 2009 by magazine Condé Nast
Condé Nast Publications
Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, is a magazine publisher. In the U.S., it produces 18 consumer magazines, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, as well as four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps...
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Wealth
The Sunday Times Rich ListSunday Times Rich List
The Sunday Times Rich List is a list of the 1,000 wealthiest people or families in the United Kingdom, updated annually in April and published as a magazine supplement by British national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times since 1989...
estimates Sir Peter to be worth £430m, based on his corporate investments. This ranks him as the 158th richest person in Britain. While his fortune has been rising over the last few years through the rigorous acquisition of European IT companies, his position on the rich list ladder has gradually slipped from a peak of 61st in 2003.
The Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post
The Birmingham Post newspaper was originally published under the name Daily Post in Birmingham, England, in 1857 by John Frederick Feeney. It was the largest selling broadsheet in the West Midlands, though it faced little if any competition in this category. It changed to tabloid size in 2008...
also publishes a rich list, specifically for residents of the West Midlands. Sir Peter is at number 29 for 2010.