Peter Gilman
Peter Gilman is a former director of Leeds FC. In 1996, along with 2 other former directors, he made £5.5 million from selling the club to Caspian, a media company. He gave more than £5,000 to the Labour Party in 1999 and £7,000 in 2001.
He is Chairman of GMI Holdings Limited, a Leeds-based holding company, and GMI Rovinian, a construction company which owns the site of a huge new "business park" being built just outside Leeds. GMI Holdings gave £5,000 to the Labour Party in June 2001 and £2,000 in August 2001. The business park is being built by Thorpe Park (Leeds), a joint venture between GMI Rovinian and Severn Trent Water. Peter Gilman is also the Chairman of Thorpe Park (Leeds) Ltd. In the financial year up to the 31st March 2000, GMI Rovinian earned £200,000 in management charges from Thorpe Park (Leeds) Limited.
The business park is aimed at call centres and is the site of the National Grid HQ, Time Retail Finance (the retail credit arm of Kingfisher plc), Octagon, Cable & Wireless and a 123 bedroom, 4 star hotel for Shire Inns.It benefits massively from the new £200 million A1/M1 link road opened by John Prescott in February 1999 (when he gave Thorpe Park Leeds his "official seal of approval!"). A direct motorway connection to the Park is planned to be complete in February 2002.
In April 2001 GMI Holdings Limited announced their involvement with "the most wide-ranging ebusiness and university agreement in the UK" when a deal was signed by developer Thorpe Park (Leeds) Limited and the University of Leeds to construct The Knowledge Economy (KE) Campus.
GMI Holdings Limited has several subsidies, including GMI Investments Ltd and Lewcombe Properties (Leeds) Ltd.[1]
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