Galen Weston bought Brown Thomas as a gift for his wife Hilary. This also turned out to be a great gift for me. You could say that Galen Weston gave me my career. I had initially met Galen back in the early 1990s, in relation to the ‘Old Brown Thomas’. Here’s how it all came about. I was introduced to Paul and Deirdre Kelly, who were very successfully running Weston’s A Wear group and they, in turn, introduced me to George McCullagh, the managing director of Brown Thomas who also sadly passed away last month. George then sent me to meet Galen and…

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