Jacqueline Gold

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Jacqueline Gold - Conference and keynote speaker, business
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'The woman responsible for bringing sex to the high street and liberating thousands of women between the sheets'
OK! Magazine

Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of Ann Summers and Knickerbox, is one of Britain's most charismatic and successful businesswomen and an inspiration to thousands of women. She has been voted the second Most Powerful Woman in Retail by Retail Week, the Most Inspirational Businesswoman in the UK in a survey by Barclays Bank and handbag.com, one of Britain's Most Powerful Women by many publications including Cosmopolitan, Woman, and Good Housekeeping magazines, one of Britain's 100 Most Influential Women by the Daily Mail, was voted Business Communicator of the Year 2004, and was made a new entry in Debrett's 'People of Today' 2005 for her contribution to British society. She heads an empire that is run by women, for women.

Transforming Ann Summers

At the age of 19, after joining Ann Summers for work experience, Jacqueline saw the potential of selling sexy lingerie and sex toys to women in the privacy of their own homes. Working her way through the ranks of Ann Summers Jacqueline was made Chief Executive in 1987, and quickly transformed Ann Summers into a multi-million pound concern. Ann Summers now boasts a sales force of over 7,500 women as party organisers, has 141 high street stores in the UK, Ireland, and Channel Islands and one in Spain, and an annual turnover of £155 million. The takeover of Knickerbox in 2000 added another 5 stores, and Knickerbox concessions in every Ann Summers store.

Jacqueline on television

Jacqueline has been the subject of several documentaries including 'Back To The Floor' (BBC2), 'Ann Summers Uncovered' (ITV1), 'So What Do You Do All Day' (BBC2), 'Break With The Boss' (Living), and co-presented the daytime business series 'Mind Your Own Business' (BBC1). She is one of the panelists on the show ‘Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway’ (ITV1), and is one of the celebrity jurors on ‘The Verdict’ (BBC2). Jacqueline helped raise more than £750,000 for Sport Relief when she appeared on the celebrity version of The Apprentice.

Her autobiography 'Good Vibrations' was published in 1995 (Pavilion Books), and her second book 'A Woman's Courage' was published 2007 (Ebury). She is a columnist for Retail Week, New Business and Kent Business.

Accolades

To add to Jacqueline’s awards, she was nominated for The Credit Suisse Award for the Outstanding Woman in Business in the 2008 National Business Awards. Jacqueline has used her position as a high-profile businesswoman to support and promote the charities closest to her heart. They include being a patron of Breast Cancer Care, NAPAC, as well as having close links with the Retail Trust. 

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Ann Summers boss to star in charity Apprentice show
10th March 2008Ann Summers boss Jacqueline Gold will be risking getting fired by Alan Sugar in a charity version of the Apprentice.
Jacqueline Gold made new entry in Who’s Who 2008
5th December 2007Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of Ann Summers and Knickerbox, has been made a new entry in Who’s Who 2008.
JACQUELINE GOLD VOTED BUSINESS ICON
14th November 2007Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of Ann Summers and Knickerbox, has been voted one of the top business icons in a poll of women by Everywoman and NatWest Bank
Jacqueline Gold Joins the new ITV gameshow
1st December 2006Ann Summers boss Jacqueline Gold has joined the new show 'Fortune' on ITV to be transmitted in January 07 alongside Jeffrey Archer, Duncan Bannatyne, Simon Jordan and Kanya King
The Sunday Times Business Person of Year - The Finalists
23rd December 2009The Sunday Times has announced its list of contenders for their annual Business Person of the Year award. The finalists have shown true grit and determination - many have hauled their businesses through a rather perilous time unscathed and are survivors in the business world. The contenders are Angela Ahrendts (pictured left), Ross Brawn, Frank Chapman, Richard Cousins, Founders of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, Steve Jobs, Sam Laidlaw, Alan Mulally, Kate Swann, and John Varley.
BSkyB is Britain's most admired company 2009
2nd December 2009Media firm BSkyB landed the top spot in Management Today's Britain's Most Admired Companies awards on monday night. Led by CEO Jeremy Darroch, the organisation is one of the youngest to be handed the accolade, topping each of the nine criteria to secure the award. Matthew Gwyther, editor of Management Today said: 'It (BSkyB) is barely more than a stripling upstart amongst the great names of UK business, some of which have been around for centuries in one form or another. It has shown that a class-leading product, well marketed and slickly delivered, can continue to grow and prosper even in the most challenging circumstances.' Tesco and Johnson Mathey took the second and third slots respectively, with Cadbury, GlaxoSmithKline and Rolls-Royce trailing at numbers four, five and six.
Heavyweight keynote speakers are expected at the CBI Conference today including Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Dominique Strauss-Kahn & Stuart Rose to name but a few
23rd November 2009Heavyweight keynote speakers are expected to address the CBI conference in London today. Talking to the most influential and important of business audiences will be our political leaders Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, business chiefs such as Sir Stuart Rose and Stephen Hester, as well as Lord Adair Turner, BBC Economics Editor Stephanie Flaunders and the CBI's Director-General Richard Lambert. Chairing the conference will be CBI's President, the recently appointed Helen Alexander, former chief executive at The Economist and the first woman in the role.
Lessons learnt from Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple - one of the greatest speakers ever
19th November 2009The Times is featuring extracts from Simon Maier and Jerremy Kourdi's book 'The 100: Insights and lessons from 100 of the greatest speeches ever delivered'. Read The Times article on lessons learnt from one of the world's best speakers - Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple and former chief executive officer of Pixar Animation Studios.
WHO MOVED MY GURU?
19th December 2008The economy may be tanking, but not Malcolm Gladwell. His new book, “Outliers,” a characteristically snappy look at what made the Beatles, Bill Gates and other superstars so successful, enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 1
Diageo wins 'Britain's Most Admired Company 2008' award
11th December 2008Drinks major Diageo has won the coveted title of Britain's Most Admired Company 2008 in MT's annual poll. At the awards ceremony last night at Claridge's, Diageo’s CEO Paul Walsh accepted the award from Lord Heseltine, chairman of Haymarket Media...

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