Victoria Beckham has been named the UK’s most successful entrepreneur of 2014, based on strong sales, the number of jobs she has created, and her estimated wealth overall.
The former Spice Girl’s firm turned over £30m last year, a rise of 2,900pc in the last five years.
“It is her finely tuned business acumen that wins her the top spot,” said Philip Beresford, who compiled the list for business magazine Management Today . The list of Britain’s top 100 entrepreneurs is ranked by turnover growth and job creation in the last five years, using data from Companies House, combined with the entrepreneur’s wealth overall.
Fresh from the opening of its first shop in London’s Mayfair, Victoria Beckham’s fashion operation has grown from £1m turnover to £30m since launching five years ago, and staff numbers are up from three to 100 in the same period.
Victoria Beckham, who is worth £210m, has become a “supremely talented entrepreneur in the fashion business,” Management Today concluded.
“She’s got a real business, some design talent and some business nous,” said Andrew Saunders, the magazine’s deputy editor. “She gets a lot of stick for being a celeb fashionista but I don’t think that’s fair. She has built something real out of her own celebrity which is quite a contemporary story. She deserves to be celebrated.”
Peter Smith writes
She has no talent whatever..Its the people she employs that have it.All her “Designs” are just revamps of other peoples designs.How many ways can you design a dress?Anytime she does anything for charity she brings an army of photographers with her.A very calculating person.Its all heading for one thing, a knighthood for Beckham.That’s it for her, the holy grail.She is gut determined to become a “Lady”.He is just as bad.Anything for charity bring the media.She was in the U.N recently, God knows why.She said “I have a voice people listen to”.Has she lost the plot or what? Who in their right mind would listen to her for five minutes?Beckham has between now and the new years honours list to do something amazing to secure the much sought after knighthood.Wonder what it will be?