Nick Robertson
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Nick Robertson is the co-founder of Britain's largest online fashion retail site ASOS.
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Robertson has previously worked for Entertainment Marketing and Young & Rubicam.
Robertson co-founded the firm in 2000. It currently ships to over 160 countries and the website's 2012 revenue was £495 million.[1] The firm has led to Robertson becoming one of Britain's wealthiest men.[2]
Support for the Conservative Party
2010 election
Robertson backed the Conservative pledge not to increase National Insurance if they won the 2010 General Election.[3]
Letter to the Telegraph
On 1 April 2015 Robertson 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]
Notes
- ↑ Business of Fashion Nick Robertson, accessed 3 April 2015.
- ↑ ASOS fashion tycoon leaves £8m family home... to move round corner with personal assistant 15 years his junior Daily Mail, 17 August 2014, accessed 3 April 2015.
- ↑ Robert Winnett and Andrew Porter General Election 2010: 30 more business leaders back Tories on National Insurance Telegraph, 7 April 2010, accessed 8 April 2015.
- ↑ Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 3 April 2015.
