Nick Jenkins
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Nick Jenkins is the founder of Moonpig.
Career
Having saved £750,000.00 at his job in Russia with sugar traders Glencore, Jenkins started gift card company Moonpig in 1999[1] with the help of £2 million from 18 angel investors. By 2011 the company were employing 100 staff and were selling 12 million cards, so Jenkins sold the company for £100 million.[2]
Letter to the Telegraph
On 1 April 2015 Jenkins was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Sara Rizk Moonpig: Nick Jenkins Startups, 13 October 2009, accessed 3 April 2015
- ↑ How did they do it Q&A: Nick Jenkins, Moonpig.com, accessed 3 April 2015.
- ↑ Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 3 April 2015.
