William Haughey

William Haughey is Chief Executive of City Refrigeration, the UK's largest specialist refrigeration and facilities management company. He gave £10,000 to the Labour Party in March 1999 (and more than £5,000 in 2000) and was one of the ten Scottish businessmen who wrote a letter to the Scotland on Sunday newspaper in January 1999 to express support for the Labour Party (including John Boyle,Tom Hunter and Dr John Parker of Babcock International).

City Refrigeration supplies and manages the refrigeration equipment for bars, restaurants and retailers, including all of Asda's supermarkets (in a £200 million 5-year contract). They bought the Scottish Milk Marketing Board's equipment rental division in 1997 and in 1998 they opened a Call Centre in Rutherglen. Lord Gus MacDonald, Labour Transport Minister, said at the time that he was "delighted by City Refrigeration's progress."