The secretive 'chicken king': inside the empire of Ranjit Singh Boparan
by Simon Goodley from on (#33H1V)
After leaving school at 16, the entrepreneur has built up a vast business employing 23,000 people
His soft West Midlands accent betrays the fact that Ranjit Singh Boparan has not ventured far from his roots during a career in food. But in business terms he has travelled miles.
The entrepreneur, who left school at 16 with few qualifications and spent his early working life toiling in a local butcher's shop, founded 2 Sisters Food Group in West Bromwich in 1993 with a bank loan, and has since grown the firm into the UK's second largest food business by turnover.
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