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- Product code: 242096
- ISBN: 1841127868,
ISBN13: 9781841127866,
320 pages, hardback
Published by John Wiley & Sons on 2007
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Description of Gerald Ratner : The Rise and Fall... and Rise Again |
In 1991 Gerald Ratner was booked to make what should have been an everyday speech at the Institute of Directors. Should have been. When the words "total
crap" come out of his mouth in connection with a decanter and glasses set sold by his company, H. Samuel, it all turned out slightly different. The Rise and Fall...And Rise Again tells the full story, in Gerald Ratner's own words, of what lead him to that point at the IoD, the horror of what happened in the immediate aftermath, the fallout and the comeback. This is the first time Gerald Ratner has given his side of the story. And what a story it is. You'll find out:
* How he wiped £500m off the value of his own company virtually overnight
* All the details about the initial gaffe and how he compounded it by remarking that some of the earrings were "cheaper than an M&S prawn sandwich but probably wouldn't last as long"
* How "doing a Ratner" has entered into the vocabulary of British business
* The wilderness years sitting glued to the sofa in front of Countdown
* How he has bounced back, rediscovering his entrepreneurial spark by building up a health club business and, more recently, the immensely successful online jewellery retailer Geraldonline.com
* The story's not over yet...
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Contents of Gerald Ratner : The Rise and Fall... and Rise Again |
Introduction.
ACT I: THE RISE.
Chapter 1: Family Life.
Chapter 2: Growing Up.
Chapter 3: Toughening Up.
Chapter 4: The Family Business.
Chapter 5: Growing the Business.
Chapter 6: Going Public.
Chapter 7: The Home Front.
Chapter 8: Downturn.
Chapter 9: Taking Over.
Chapter 10: Turnaround.
Chapter 11: The Big Time.
Chapter 12: Trauma.
Chapter 13: Thatcher’s Decade.
Chapter 14: The Incredible Eighties.
Chapter 15: Going Global.
Chapter 16: Riding the Acquisitions Express.
ACT II: THE FALL.
Chapter 17: Welcome to the Nineties.
Chapter 18: An Invitation.
Chapter 19: That Speech.
Chapter 20: As Bad as it Gets.
Chapter 21: The End.
Chapter 22: The Wilderness.
Chapter 23: Out of the Frying Pan.
ACT III: THE RISE AGAIN.
Chapter 24: Starting All Over Again.
Chapter 25: The Launch.
Chapter 26: Dotcom Millionaire.
Chapter 27: Thinking Big.
Chapter 28: What Goes Around.
The Speech.
Index.
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About Gerald Ratner |
Gerald Ratner joined the family business in 1966 and built up an extremely successful chain of jewellers during the ‘80s, of which he was Chief Exec. In 1991 he made an infamous speech to a private audience at the IoD which was instantly seized upon by the media. He was eventually sacked 18 months later, and in 1994 the Ratner name was expunged from the company, renamed The Signet Group. For four years he worked as a general business consultant, before setting up a health club in Henley. He sold it for £3.9m in 2001, when one of the club's members, Goldsmiths the Jewellers head, Jurek Piasecki, encouraged him to go back into the jewellery trade. Subsequently Ratner set up an online jewellery business, GeraldOnline. In August 2006, press speculation has noted that Ratner is interested in acquiring the UK business of Signet Group plc — the re-named Ratner's group. He is a married father of four and a fitness fanatic, cycling around 20 miles per day
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