Chris Wright (UK businessman)

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hris Wright is the Chairman of Chrysalis and former Chairman of QPR FC. He pledged £100,000 to the Labour Party in March 1999. His salary in 1999 was £510,000 (£400,000 in 1998) and his stake in Chrysalis is worth £141 million (he made £8 million in a share sale in 1999). His personal wealth is £155 million. The Chrysalis Group have given more than £5,000 in sponsorship to the Labour Party in 2000-2001.

Chrysalis includes the Chrysalis and Echo record labels, the Heart FM and Galaxy radio stations and a group of TV production companies that make it the 2nd largest independent programme maker in the UK and the Netherlands. As well as being the former owner of QPR, he owns the Wasps rugby union team and the Sheffield Sharks basketball team.

One of the 58 business leaders who wrote to the Times in May 2001 in support of the Labour Party.

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