Seminars

Dean Hoyle - Chairman of Huddersfield Town and co-founder of Card Factory

1430 – 1515

A frank Q&A with Kirklees’ highest profile entrepreneur.

Together with wife Janet, Dean set up greetings card retailer Card Factory in 1997 and built a business empire consisting of over 500 shops nationwide – an achievement that saw him named Ernst & Young North and Midlands Entrepreneur of the Year in June 2009.

Dean became Chairman of Huddersfield Town in June 2009, having joined the Board of Directors as Chairman-elect in April 2008. In March 2010 Dean became sole owner of Huddersfield Town and on 8th April 2010, Card Factory was sold to private equity group Charterhouse.

This will be run as a question and answer session allowing local business people to pick his brains and find out what is relevant to them.

Dean will offer delegates a forthright insight into how starting selling greetings cards from the back of an old van lead to the mind-boggling sale of Card Factory and then owning the football club he has supported man and boy.

This is a true one off opportunity to pick the brains of our district's best.

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