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'''Nicholas David Jenkins''' (born May 1967)<ref>[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/Vb4nqIQBH2XiUjThGEVu_TIH6BQ/appointments Nicholas David Jenkins], 'Companies House', Accessed 25-9-2016</ref> is the founder of [[Moonpig]].
  
 
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[[Category:Telegraph Letter General Election 2015|Jenkins, Nick]][[Category:Conservative Party Donors|Jenkins, Nick]]
 
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Latest revision as of 16:36, 25 September 2016

Nicholas David Jenkins (born May 1967)[1] 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[2] with the help of £2 million from 18 angel investors.

By 2011 the company were employing 100 staff and selling 12 million cards a year, Jenkins sold the company for £100 million.[3]

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.[4]

Recorded by the Electoral Commission:[5]

Date Name of donor Amount Donated to Subsidiary (parties only)
05/03/2009 Nicholas Jenkins £2,500.00 Conservative Party Hammersmith
30/06/2009 Nicholas Jenkins £2,000.00 Conservative Party Central Party
22/03/2011 Nicholas D Jenkins £20,000.00 No Campaign Limited
26/04/2011 Nicholas D Jenkins £2,000.00 No Campaign Limited
30/06/2011 Nicholas D Jenkins £102,000.00 Conservative Party Central Party
20/09/2011 Nicholas D Jenkins £10,000.00 Conservative Party Central Party
07/12/2011 Nicholas D Jenkins £5,000.00 Conservative Party] Central Party
10/02/2012 Nicholas D Jenkins £10,000.00 Conservative Party Central party
28/11/2012 Nicholas D Jenkins £25,000.00 Conservative Party Central Party












Notes

  1. Nicholas David Jenkins, 'Companies House', Accessed 25-9-2016
  2. Sara Rizk Moonpig: Nick Jenkins Startups, 13 October 2009, accessed 3 April 2015
  3. How did they do it Q&A: Nick Jenkins, Moonpig.com, accessed 3 April 2015.
  4. Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 3 April 2015.
  5. Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 9 April 2015