31 Facts About Sir Philip Green

Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green was born on 15 March 1952 and is a British businessman who was the chairman of the retail company the Arcadia Group.

Sir Philip Green owned the high street clothing retailers Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge from 2002 to 2020.

Sir Philip Green bought British Home Stores for £200 million in 2000, and subsequently spent £840 million to acquire the Arcadia Group in 2002.

Sir Philip Green was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2006 Birthday Honours.

Sir Philip Green has been called the "King of the High Street" but has been involved in a number of controversies during his career, including his actions prior to the demise of BHS in 2016.

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Sir Philip Green was born on 15 March 1952 in Croydon, England, into a middle-class Jewish family.

Sir Philip Green was the son of Simon Green, a successful property developer and electrical goods retailer, and Alma.

Sir Philip Green's family moved to Hampstead Garden Suburb, a middle-class area of North London, and at the age of nine he was sent to the now-closed Jewish boarding school Carmel College in Oxfordshire.

When Sir Philip Green was twelve, his father died of a heart attack, and he inherited the family business.

In 1979, Sir Philip Green bought up, at low prices, the entire stock of ten designer-label clothes retailers that had gone into receivership.

Sir Philip Green then had the newly bought clothes dry cleaned, put on hangers, and wrapped in polythene to make them look new, and bought a shop from which to sell them to the public.

Sir Philip Green was briefly owned by Green but sold to Tina Green within 24 hours, with Philip acting as CEO.

Sir Philip Green is a supporter of the Fashion Retail Academy and the industry charity Retail Trust.

Sir Philip Green was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours "For services to the Retail Industry".

In May 2007, after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal, Sir Philip Green donated £250,000 as a monetary reward for any useful public information.

Sir Philip Green gave the McCanns the use of his private jet to allow them to fly to Rome for a Papal visit.

In 2010, Sir Philip Green donated $465,000 for new beds at the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital, after his wife Tina's mother died there.

Sir Philip Green spent more than $150,000 for an Alexander McQueen dress at Naomi Campbell's Fashion for Relief charity event.

Green's summary report, Efficiency Review by Sir Philip Green, published in October 2010, alleged significant failings in government procurement processes.

Sir Philip Green is based during the week at a London hotel, spending the weekends with his wife and their children in an apartment in Monaco.

Sir Philip Green was involved in the transfers of Rio Ferdinand from Leeds United and Louis Saha from Fulham to Manchester United.

Sir Philip Green is involved with Everton Football Club due to his friendship with chairman Bill Kenwright, but states that has no intention of formally investing in the club.

Sir Philip Green arranged for another friend, Planet Hollywood's owner Robert Earl, to purchase shares from former director Paul Gregg during a struggle for control of Everton in 2004.

Sir Philip Green offers business advice to the club alongside Tesco CEO Terry Leahy and helps negotiate player transfer fees with agents.

Sir Philip Green became the target of activist group UK Uncut in November 2010 for alleged corporate tax avoidance.

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Sir Philip Green denied allegations in The Sunday Times made during 2007 that his firm used overseas sweatshops where workers in Mauritius were paid pitiful wages.

In 2010, Sir Philip Green was again accused of using sweatshops, this time by Channel 4's Dispatches programme.

Sir Philip Green bought BHS for £200m in 2000, but the firm performed poorly so he sold it for just £1 in 2015.

Sir Philip Green then added that he had moral responsibilities to the pension fund and a proper investigation was needed but not one that took years.

Ahead of a joint Business and Work and Pensions Select Committee meeting, Sir Philip Green called the inquiry biased, and stated that he "therefore required [its chair, Frank Field] to resign".

In May 2019, Sir Philip Green was charged with four counts of misdemeanor assault in the US after an Arizona Pilates teacher accused him of frequently touching her inappropriately.