Donald Curry, Baron Curry of Kirkharle

Businessperson and Member of the House of Lords (born 1944)

Donald Curry, Baron Curry of Kirkharle is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.

The record lists Donald Curry, Baron Curry of Kirkharle as Businessperson and Member of the House of Lords (born 1944).

Donald Curry, Baron Curry of Kirkharle was born in 1944. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as politician, entrepreneur and farmer.

What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.

Recognition followed: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1996) and Knight Bachelor.

That the business was built from United Kingdom shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

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