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:An ex-captain in the Welsh Guards who did special forces services in Borneo and Kenya, Gabb is a keen sportsman and does a great deal of charitable work. In 2003 he climed Mera Peak, the highest of Nepal's designated trekking peaks, and in the process raised over £25,000 for charities including the [[Wine & Spirit Benevolent Fund]]. Gabb lives in Shropshire with his wife. He has two sons and a grandson. Gabb has led Western Wines from being largely an importer and supplier of private-label wine for the UK multiple grocers, to become one of the UK's largest branded suppliers of South African wine and a leading supplier to all retailers.<ref> [http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/content/view/21/69/ Man Of The Year Award Winner Roger Gabb, Chairman, Western Wines] The Drinks Business, 2005</ref>
 
:An ex-captain in the Welsh Guards who did special forces services in Borneo and Kenya, Gabb is a keen sportsman and does a great deal of charitable work. In 2003 he climed Mera Peak, the highest of Nepal's designated trekking peaks, and in the process raised over £25,000 for charities including the [[Wine & Spirit Benevolent Fund]]. Gabb lives in Shropshire with his wife. He has two sons and a grandson. Gabb has led Western Wines from being largely an importer and supplier of private-label wine for the UK multiple grocers, to become one of the UK's largest branded suppliers of South African wine and a leading supplier to all retailers.<ref> [http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/content/view/21/69/ Man Of The Year Award Winner Roger Gabb, Chairman, Western Wines] The Drinks Business, 2005</ref>
  
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According to Seán Mac Mathúna <ref>Seán Mac Mathúna [http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/dirty_war_in_ireland.htm The SAS, their early days in Ireland and the Wilson Plot], originally published in Lobster 18, in 1989 (pp19-21), under the pseudonym of Alexander Platow</ref>
 
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:Formed to perform acts of sabotage and assassination behind enemy lines during during World War 2, the SAS evolved into a counter-insurgency regiment after the war. The 1969 Army Training manual stated that their tasks included:
 
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::"the ambush and harassment of insurgents, the infiltration of sabotage, assassination and demolition parties into insurgent-held areas, border surveillance, . . . liaison with, and organisation of friendly guerrilla forces operating against the common enemy". <ref>British Army Land Operations Manual, volume 3, counter-revolutionary operations. Cited in Bloch and Fitzgerald p42.</ref>
 
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:Examples were found during the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya during the mid-fifties, when SAS officers commanded some of the infamous "pseudo gangs" that terrorised the civilian population; <ref>Bloch and Fitzgerald p89</ref> in Borneo, where they used cross-border operations to attack and destroy guerrilla bases; <ref>Geraghty p42</ref> and in Aden in 1967, where they dressed as Arabs and would use an Army officer to lure Arab gunmen into a trap and kill them. <ref>Geraghty p102</ref> To defeat the insurgents counter-terror must be deployed back at them - described by Ken Livingstone as "subverting the subverters". <ref>Hansard 7 July 87 p42</ref>
 
  
 
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Revision as of 22:08, 10 July 2010

Roger Gabb is Executive Chairman of Western Wines Ltd, a £100m turnover business that he built up over 20 years to supply wine to the UK supermarket sector. His earlier career included introducing Volvic mineral water into the UK and a period with Distillers Company as European Brand Manager. He is a director of Strategic Communication Laboratories. [1] Gabb gave £500,000 to the Conservative Party in 2006.[2]

Roger Gabb, chairman of Western Wines, has fulfilled the ultimate business fantasy. He started his company in 1980 at his kitchen table in Shropshire, created a killer brand in 1995, then sold the whole shebang for an exceedingly cool £133m last year. By the time Canadian outfit, Vincor International, snapped up Gabb's company, it was the largest independent wine importer and distributor in the UK and Kumala was the only top 10 wine owned by a private company. Last year the brand achieved UK sales of 2.4m cases. But Kumala is only part of the story. In 1986 Gabb formed a partnership with Italian co-ops which ultimately resulted in Western Wines being responsible for one bottle in every case of Italian wine sold in the UK off-trade. The highly regarded Da Luca brand is one of his too.
An ex-captain in the Welsh Guards who did special forces services in Borneo and Kenya, Gabb is a keen sportsman and does a great deal of charitable work. In 2003 he climed Mera Peak, the highest of Nepal's designated trekking peaks, and in the process raised over £25,000 for charities including the Wine & Spirit Benevolent Fund. Gabb lives in Shropshire with his wife. He has two sons and a grandson. Gabb has led Western Wines from being largely an importer and supplier of private-label wine for the UK multiple grocers, to become one of the UK's largest branded suppliers of South African wine and a leading supplier to all retailers.[3]


References

  1. ↑ Strategic Communication Laboratories Roger Gabb
  2. ↑ http://politics.guardian.co.uk/funding/story/0,,1744292,00.html
  3. ↑ Man Of The Year Award Winner Roger Gabb, Chairman, Western Wines The Drinks Business, 2005
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