He has previously worked as the finance director of a chain of high street stores and as a director of a private equity firm.
MJM has also expanded into womenswear with its Ultimo Couture line, taking on Brian Rennie, the former creative director of Escada and will, if Mone's plans pan out, be opening a chain of high street lifestyle shops by 2013.
Tata owns a chain of high-end jewelry stores, Tanishq, and makes fertilizer though its Tata Chemicals unit.
The circuit is now owned by Skip Barber, who started a chain of high-performance driving schools, including one based at Lime Rock Park.
If they were around today, the Farneses would probably have a chain of high-end casino resorts or a classy little media empire.
Next year, it even plans to enter Italy, where Schultz originally found inspiration, in the eighties, to open a chain of high-end coffee shops.
Before graduating, he took some time off to try another business venture — building a chain of high-end gyms in Taiwan — and that failed, too.
WHEN Jair Coser arrived in Texas six years ago from São Paulo with a plan to open a chain of high-end Brazilian steakhouses in the United States, restaurateurs told him that he was crazy.
Located within a former apartment building, Jia Shanghai will feature an Italian restaurant on the second floor to be managed by the celebrity chef Salvatore Cuomo, the entrepreneur who has a chain of high-end and mid-priced Italian restaurants throughout Japan.
That he managed to escape to the American embassy, setting off a chain of high-level diplomatic maneuvers, only adds to his mystique.
Victims of horrific acid burn attacks in Pakistan have found a champion in Musarrat Misbah, who owns a chain of high-end beauty salons.
