Gulam K Noon

Gulam K. Noon is the founder of Noon Products, a large supplier of ready-made curries to supermarkets. He gave £100,000 to the Labour Party in 1999. In 1998 Noon Products was bought by WT Foods for £50 million (£35 million in cash and 12 million shares, now worth £6.8 million). His personal wealth is £45 million.

In 1998 it was reported that workers had been refused recognition of the GMB union at the Noon plant in Southall, despite the fact that 90% had joined up. It was also reported that many of the workers worked 6 days a week at £3.50 an hour and that managers had offered inducements and tried to stir up racial differences in an effort to persuade workers to leave the union.

A former Tory supporter, he is one of the 58 business leaders who wrote to the Times in May 2001 in support of the Labour Party.