Clive Hollick, Baron Hollick

Clive Richard Hollick, Baron Hollick (born 19 May 1945) is a British businessman with media interests, and a noted supporter of the Labour party. Hollick was educated at Taunton's Grammar School, Southampton, and then read Politics, Psychology and Sociology at the University of Nottingham. He joined Hambros Bank as a graduate trainee in 1967 and rapidly gained a reputation as a financier and a dealmaker, becoming the bank's youngest ever director... more

Clive Richard Hollick, Baron Hollick (born 19 May 1945) is a British businessman with media interests, and a noted supporter of the Labour party. Hollick was educated at Taunton's Grammar School, Southampton, and then read Politics, Psychology and Sociology at the University of Nottingham. He joined Hambros Bank as a graduate trainee in 1967 and rapidly gained a reputation as a financier and a dealmaker, becoming the bank's youngest ever director in 1973. The next year Hollick was parachuted as chief executive into JH Vavasseur Group, a failing moneybroker caught up in the 1973-4 secondary banking crisis. By 1978 the Vavasseur mechant bank was back in the black, and Hollick was building it into a successful media company, renaming the group Mills & Allen International (MAI) after taking over advertising billboard company Mills and Allen. The group continued to grow with fingers in a number of pies through the 1980s, expanding into market research and business information services, and... less