Gerald Ratner THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE AGAIN First Edition Signed
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Gerald Ratner THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE AGAIN First Edition Signed
First edition, first print hardback of THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE AGAIN by Gerald Ratner and published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd./ Capstone Publishing Ltd., in 2007. Signed by Ratner on the title page.
The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards and gilt lettering on the spine), with minor wear to the pictorial dust jacket which is not price clipped (light creasing to the edges, light rubbing to a couple of corners). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Gerald Ratner is a British household name. He joined the family business in 1966 at the age of 15 and went on to build up the UK's most successful chain of jewellers of which he was Chairman and Chief Executive. In 1992, 18 months after his infamous speech to the conference at the Institute of Directors, he was sacked and in 1994 the Ratner name was eliminated from the company.
For four years he worked on and off as a consultant, before starting up a health club in Henley and eventually selling it. In 2004, Ratner set up an online jewellery business, GeraldOnline, after market research on brand recognition found that Ratners was still the most recognised name in jewellery retailing.
Gerald Ratner has come full-circle and is enjoying success second time around. He is a married father of four and now a fitness fanatic, cycling around 30 miles per day. Gerald worked with the author and journalist, Jo Monroe, on this book
"In 1991, Gerald Ratner made a landmark speech to the Institute of Directors.
After over 25 years in the jewellery trade, Gerald Ratner was one of the most well-known and successful retailers of his generation. He had built up a highly profitable, multi- million pound international business, including household names like Ratners, H. Samuel, Ernest Jones and Watches of Switzerland, as well as over one thousand stores in the US.
Being asked to give the keynote address at the Institute of Director's annual conference at The Royal Albert Hall was a great honour and should have been the crowning glory of two decades of empire building.
But his speech was seized upon by the media after he included jokes about the quality of some of his shops' products. No one could have predicted the far-reaching impact these jokes would have.
'Even though I had once had my name above hundreds of shops up and down the country, it had become more famous as a byword for crap. It took several years to realise just what an impact the speech had had on every aspect of my life.'"
260 pages.
ISBN: 978 1 84112 786 6
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