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Peter Wallis is the real name of 'style guru' [[Peter York]]. Wallis is very well connected to New Labour and corporate elites. His [[SRU]] consultancy set up with [[Dennis Stevenson]] in the early 1970s is now owned by [[Brunswick Group]]
 
  
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A biographical note on the Marketing Society [http://www.marketing-society.org.uk/main.asp?page=event-details&eventid=L-WS05005 website] lists some of his connections, including close links with New Labour uber-lobbyist [[Dennis Stevenson]]:
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Peter Wallis aka [[Peter York]] is a “Style Guru, Author, Presenter, Management Consultant”<ref>Peter York (Wallis), [http://www.capelland.com/pages/broadcasters/index.asp?CID=156 Broadcasters], ''Capel & Land'', Accessed 08-August-2009</ref> with links to government and major corporations. Alongside businessman and political networker [[Dennis Stevenson]] Wallis was co-founder of management consultancy [[SRU]] where [[Peter Mandelson]] worked as a consultant between 1990 and 1992<ref>Peter York, [http://www.friezefoundation.org/biography/profile/peter_york/ Biography], ''The Frieze Foundation'', Accessed 07-August-2009</ref>.
  
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Peter York (Peter Wallis), Chairman - Department of Trade & Industry
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He was appointed Chairman of the [[Department of Trade and Industry]] Committee examining the future of leisure in the UK as part of the British Government’s ‘Foresight’ initiative in 1994.<ref>Peter York (Wallis), [http://www.capelland.com/pages/broadcasters/index.asp?CID=156 Broadcasters], ''Capel & Land'', Accessed 08-August-2009</ref>. Wallis was also chairman of media consultants [[Hydra Associates]] between 1987 and 1999<ref>Peter York (Wallis), [http://www.capelland.com/pages/broadcasters/index.asp?CID=156 Broadcasters], ''Capel & Land'', Accessed 08-August-2009</ref>. Blairite politician [[James Purnell]] worked as a strategy consultant for [[Hydra Associates]] between 1992 and 1994<ref>Politics, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/jamespurnell James Purnell], ''The Guardian'', Accessed 13-August-2009</ref>.  
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Peter Wallis has two parallel careers - as a management consultant and an author/broadcaster - and two names.
 
  
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As Peter Wallis he was the co-founder, with [[Dennis Stevenson|Lord Stevenson]] CBE (now Chairman of [[Pearson Plc]], [[Halifax]] plc and The [[Appointments Commission]]) of the management consultancy [[SRU]] Ltd, and during the 1980s developed the [[SRU Group]] of nine specialist business consultancies.
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According to his biography on Broadcasting firm Capel & Land:
  
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In addition to a wide ranging experience advising major corporates, Government Departments and institutions in many sectors, Peter Wallis' particular specialism has been the commercial exploitation of cultural change and 'brand rehabilitation' - the redevelopment of brands and businesses that have lost positioning focus.
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:"He has very considerable experience of ‘elite’ and up-market products and their branding communication strategies, from Dunhill to Waterford and including [[Harpers & Queen]], World of Interiors, [[The Economist]], [[The Financial Times]], Jaegar, Tiffany, Mont Blanc, Liberty and private banker Coutts & Co".
  
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He has very considerable experience of 'elite' and up-market products and their branding communication strategies, from Dunhill to Waterford and including Harpers & Queen, World of Interiors, The Economist, The Financial Times, Jaegar, Tiffany, Mont Blanc, Liberty and private banker Coutts & Co.
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He is also listed by Capel & Land as having a range of experince in the financial services sector<ref>Peter York (Wallis), [http://www.capelland.com/pages/broadcasters/index.asp?CID=156 Broadcasters], ''Capel & Land'', Accessed 08-August-2009</ref>.
  
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From 1987-1999 he was Chairman of the Media Consultancy [[Hydra Associates]].
 
  
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His experience of the financial services sector includes:
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==Peter York==
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o investment banks
 
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o corporate brokering
 
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o private client stockbrokers
 
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o high street retail banks
 
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o building societies
 
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o insurance businesses including pension specialists and health insurers
 
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o extensive Investor Relations research on behalf of his clients.
 
  
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In March 1994 Peter Wallis was appointed Chairman of a Department of Trade and Industry Committee examining the future of leisure in the UK as part of the British Government's 'Foresight' initiative.
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Peter Wallis has featured more in the public eye under his pseudonym Peter York. York achieved fame in 1982 by co-writing the Official Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr. He was the style editor of [[Harpers & Queen]] for 10 years and financed [[The Modern Review]]. He is also a columnist for [[The Independent on Sunday]], [[GQ]] magazine and [[Management Today]].
  
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Peter is a member of Lord Puttnam's DfE Task Force to help recruit, re-moralise and retain teachers in primary and secondary education.
 
  
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He is also a member of the [[Britain Abroad Task Force]] to review the communication of the British 'brand' overseas.
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York is often found in the media providing social commentary on a range of issues. On the banking crisis he commented:
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:"People once thought just a few toffs and celebs earned this kind of money. They didn't realise it was a large class of previously invisible people, rich for no good reason."<ref>Polly Toynbee (Peter York quotation), [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/28/fred-goodwin-bonuses-protests A furious public demands political anger management], ''The Guardian'', 28-March-2009</ref>.
  
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He is on the Members Council of the [[Tate Gallery]].
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==Affiliations==
  
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Peter Wallis is also a non-executive director of [[MFI Plc]], the national furniture chain, and is Chairman of the [[St. Marylebone Society]].
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[[Department of Trade and Industry]] | [[Britain Abroad Task Force]] | [[Hydra Associates]] | [[SRU]] | [[Tate Gallery]] | [[MFI Plc]] | [[St. Marylebone Society]] | [[Dunhill]] | [[Waterford]] | [[Harpers & Queen]] | [[World of Interiors]] | [[The Economist]] | [[The Financial Times]] | [[Jaegar]] | [[Tiffany]] | [[Mont Blanc]] | [[Liberty]] | [[Coutts & Co]]
  
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Under his other name of [[Peter York]] , author, broadcaster and journalist, he is known as a commentator on 'lifestyle' and social change:
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==Publications==
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* ''Style Wars'' (1980)
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* ''[[The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook]]'' (1982)
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* ''Peter York's Eighties'' (1995), co-authored with Charles Jennings
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* ''Dictators' Homes'' (2005)
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* ''Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: the Return of the Sloane Ranger'' (2007), with Olivia Stewart-Liberty.
  
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o he was Style Editor of [[Harpers and Queen]] for ten years
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==Notes==
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o the Sloane Ranger Handbook - which he co-authored with Ann Barr - was the UK's biggest-selling trade book of the 1980s
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o he has written five other books on social/style/social change
 
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o he was the writer and presenter of Peter York's 80s, a six part BBC series with an accompanying BBC book.
 
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o he was a member of the Channel 4 'Power Commission' which nominated the 300 most powerful people in the UK in 1998, 1999 and 2000 and appeared in The Channel 4 programme 'The Power List'
 
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o he is a columnist for The Independent on Sunday, GQ and Management Today
 
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o he writes and broadcasts for a variety of other media outlets.
 

Latest revision as of 14:48, 19 August 2009

Peter Wallis, AKA Peter York

Peter Wallis aka Peter York is a “Style Guru, Author, Presenter, Management Consultant”[1] with links to government and major corporations. Alongside businessman and political networker Dennis Stevenson Wallis was co-founder of management consultancy SRU where Peter Mandelson worked as a consultant between 1990 and 1992[2].

He was appointed Chairman of the Department of Trade and Industry Committee examining the future of leisure in the UK as part of the British Government’s ‘Foresight’ initiative in 1994.[3]. Wallis was also chairman of media consultants Hydra Associates between 1987 and 1999[4]. Blairite politician James Purnell worked as a strategy consultant for Hydra Associates between 1992 and 1994[5].

According to his biography on Broadcasting firm Capel & Land:

"He has very considerable experience of ‘elite’ and up-market products and their branding communication strategies, from Dunhill to Waterford and including Harpers & Queen, World of Interiors, The Economist, The Financial Times, Jaegar, Tiffany, Mont Blanc, Liberty and private banker Coutts & Co".

He is also listed by Capel & Land as having a range of experince in the financial services sector[6].


Peter York

Peter Wallis has featured more in the public eye under his pseudonym Peter York. York achieved fame in 1982 by co-writing the Official Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr. He was the style editor of Harpers & Queen for 10 years and financed The Modern Review. He is also a columnist for The Independent on Sunday, GQ magazine and Management Today.


York is often found in the media providing social commentary on a range of issues. On the banking crisis he commented:

"People once thought just a few toffs and celebs earned this kind of money. They didn't realise it was a large class of previously invisible people, rich for no good reason."[7].

Affiliations

Department of Trade and Industry | Britain Abroad Task Force | Hydra Associates | SRU | Tate Gallery | MFI Plc | St. Marylebone Society | Dunhill | Waterford | Harpers & Queen | World of Interiors | The Economist | The Financial Times | Jaegar | Tiffany | Mont Blanc | Liberty | Coutts & Co

Publications

  • Style Wars (1980)
  • The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982)
  • Peter York's Eighties (1995), co-authored with Charles Jennings
  • Dictators' Homes (2005)
  • Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: the Return of the Sloane Ranger (2007), with Olivia Stewart-Liberty.

Notes

  1. ↑ Peter York (Wallis), Broadcasters, Capel & Land, Accessed 08-August-2009
  2. ↑ Peter York, Biography, The Frieze Foundation, Accessed 07-August-2009
  3. ↑ Peter York (Wallis), Broadcasters, Capel & Land, Accessed 08-August-2009
  4. ↑ Peter York (Wallis), Broadcasters, Capel & Land, Accessed 08-August-2009
  5. ↑ Politics, James Purnell, The Guardian, Accessed 13-August-2009
  6. ↑ Peter York (Wallis), Broadcasters, Capel & Land, Accessed 08-August-2009
  7. ↑ Polly Toynbee (Peter York quotation), A furious public demands political anger management, The Guardian, 28-March-2009
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