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Peter Harris (entrepreneur)
Peter Harris (born March 1934) is a British businessman. He is best known for founding Bourne Leisure in 1964 and the owner of Butlins from September 2022. Career In 1964, Harris co-founded Bourne Leisure, a holiday and leisure company which owns Haven Holidays, Butlins, and Warner Leisure Hotels, after he audited a caravan park in his former role as an accountant. His co-founder was David Allen. In 1977, he began to buy land at Tring in Hertfordshire, where he trained racehorses until 2004. For the next seven years, the training licence was held by his son-in-law Walter Swinburn. Following his retirement as a trainer, Harris remained a significant owner of the yard. Swinburn relinquished his licence at the end of October 2011 for "commercial reasons". The estate was put on the market by Harris shortly after Swinburn's retirement. In 2013, Harris was honoured by the British Travel & Hospitality Hall of Fame in 2013. Harris was born in the UK. He owns several other companie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne Leisure
Bourne Leisure Holdings Limited is a British private company which owns a number of subsidiary undertakings operating in the leisure and holiday sectors in the United Kingdom including Haven Holidays and Warner Leisure Hotels. Company structure The main trading companies in the Bourne Leisure group in the UK are: * Haven Holidays, Haven Leisure Ltd who operate 37 family-orientated caravan holiday parks in England, Scotland and Wales. * Bourne Holidays Ltd who operate 14 hotels across the UK under the Warner Leisure Hotels name, and which are exclusively for adults. Many of the Warner Leisure Hotels properties are English country houses, country house hotels, including Alvaston Hall, Bodelwyddan Castle, Cricket St Thomas, Holme Lacey House, Littlecote House, Nidd Hall, and Thoresby Hall. The Guernsey-based Fiduciary, fiduciary company, ''First Ovalap Ltd'', jointly owned by the Harris, Cook and Allen families, were the majority shareholders until the majority of the share were bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
