The Herald (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Scotland's richest businessman, Sir Tom Hunter, and beleaguered banking group HBOS could be among the big losers as retirement home developer McCarthy & Stone scrambles for future funding amid the tightening stranglehold of the credit squeeze.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
McCarthy & Stone, the beleaguered retirement housebuilder with investors including the philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter and media baron Richard Desmond, is expected to seal an £800m refinancing deal next month.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Flying Brands, the home shopping company, has received a takeover approach from Sir Tom Hunter's West Coast Capital. The shares soared 17½p to 71½p, valuing...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Sir Tom Hunter, the Scottish entrepreneur and philanthropist, has made a bid approach for Flying Brands, the postal flower service and garden products retailer.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Shares in Flying Brands surge after a bid approach from Sir Tom Hunter
All Africa (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
"We managed to help Rwandan farmers launch a brand of premium coffee in the UK and we have so far helped them launch the brand in 1,000 stores across the United Kingdom," explained Sir Tom Hunter, a Scottish philanthropist working to improve the quality of Rwandan coffee during his visit to Rwanda early this month.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
President Paul Kagame Thursday received at Village Urugwiro, Sir Tom Hunter, a Scottish philanthropist working to improve the quality of Rwandan coffee.
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
BRA tycoon Michelle Mone has bought out investors Sir Tom Hunter and Ian Grabiner at Ultimo manufacturer MFM in an £800,000 deal.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Former US President Bill Clinton, musician Bob Geldof and Tom Hunter, a Scottish philanthropist, have announced a 4.7 million-pound scheme to boost schools in Rwanda and Malawi.
This is London (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
With impressive compositional perfection, East End shopkeepers and their shops and wares are made the subjects of fine photographic art in Tom Hunter's new exhibition, Are You Being Served?
The Independent (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Eleven months ago, the Scottish billionaire and philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter made one of the most ambitious charitable pledges the British business community had ever seen. Speaking to the television cameras, he said he hoped to give £1bn to charitable causes during his lifetime, and added: "My own personal belief is that with great wealth comes great responsibility."
The Herald (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
Supermarket giant Tesco delivered the final humiliation to entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter yesterday when its garden centre business Dobbies withdrew the £150m fund-raising plan that drove him out of the company.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
A private equity group run by Scottish entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter sells Qube Footwear to JJB Sports.
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
RETAIL billionaire Sir Tom Hunter has sold his loss-making shoe chain to JJB Sports for the nominal price of £1.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Tesco is to take full control of Dobbies Garden Centres after pushing through a deal to buy the 29.2% stake of garden sector rival Sir Tom Hunter, at a price that has cost Scotland's highest-profile investor more than £9m on what he could have picked up nine months ago.
