Carole Nash

Carole Nash, a lifelong Manchester City fan, as soon as pipped Manchester United's manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, to a £23,000 Lowry portray at auction. She may just have enough money it. After her employer closed its antique motorbike insurance coverage book, Nash, 69, took over the account and used her redundancy payment to discovered an insurance coverage broking business in 1985. Turnover at Carole Nash Insurance Consultants was £834 within the first month but now the Cheshire company claims to insure a 3rd of Britain's bikes, ranging from fashionable superbikes to vintage Harleys.

Her company's entry into the automobile insurance marketplace, with the addition of services and products similar to alarm becoming and a devoted repair centre, boosted the industry. The AA's bike insurance trade was got in 2004. Nash bought her company to Groupama UK, a subsidiary of a French insurer, in December 2006. Though no details of the deal have been disclosed, the associated fee was once reckoned to be £70m. The Nash family, who had won £15m of administrators' pay since 1998, owned it all.

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