Of Italian-Jewish descent, Caring is of the “supermarket-sweep” school of empire building. This billionaire started out in the rag trade but now controls the majority of the top restaurants and clubs in Central London. He survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and viewed that to be a wakeup call. Since then he’s donated millions to charity and focused on his two passions: golf and shooting. This buccaneering businessman generally passes on breakfast and lunch and lives between a converted stable block set in 500 acres near Dulverton and a mansion on The Bishops Avenue. What will he buy next?
Richard Caring
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- '+44 (0) 20 7307 5670
- £100 million
- £130 million
- £2 million loan
- £2m loan
- £900 million
- £95 million
- 12000 members
- 17000 members
- 2 acres
- 20/20
- 2004
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 3 – 5 Rathbone Place
- 30000 regulars
- 34
- 4th June 1952
- 500 acres
- 50th birthday
- 55 foot ballroom
- 60000 people
- a group of top-notch brands
- AA Gill
- AIM
- aircraft
- airport hotel
- Aldershot-born model
- Algerian restaurateur
- Alternative Investment Market
- Amanda Wakeley
- ambulance
- America
- American
- American Navy
- American Navy building
- an evening’s hire of Annabel’s
- Anglicized his surname
- Annabel's
- Anthony Parnes
- arm infection
- art
- art collection
- arts
- artwork
- As a sporting facility in the UK there is nothing similar
- atoll
- avid golfer
- Bam-Bou
- bankroll expansion
- Bath & Racquets Club
- Belgo
- Ben Caring
- Benjain Caring
- Berlin
- Bill Clinton
- billionaire
- Birley Group
- bistro
- bistros
- Blofeld
- Bob Geldoff
- Bond
- Brand
- branding
- brandishing a credit card and playing a high-stakes game of Monopoly
- brands
- brands travel
- Brentwood Ursuline Convent School
- Brit
- Britain
- British
- British Army
- British food
- bronze
- buy out
- buyers
- buying ever square he lands on
- buying out partners
- Camden Market
- Camden Stables Market
- Cameden
- Caprice
- Caprice Holdings
- career
- caricature
- caring
- Caringi
- Carluccio’s
- cash for honours
- cash-for-peerages
- catalogue
- catalogue firm
- catalogues
- Catherine Palace
- catwalk show
- Cecconi's
- Cecconi’s Miami
- CEO
- chain
- chain builder
- charitable contributions
- charity
- charity costume ball
- cheap
- cheaply
- chef director
- Chicago
- China
- Chinaman
- Chinese
- Chris Blackhurst
- cinema
- city
- clothes
- clothing
- complex company structures
- Conservative
- Conservative Party
- core brands
- Cote
- Country Life
- Daphne's
- daring manouevre
- death
- deer
- Degas
- designer label
- designer labels
- developer
- development company
- Devon
- Did I see the light?
- dining room for 30
- discreet
- distressed brand
- distressed brands
- dived
- donated
- donated £1 million to the tsunami relief fund
- donation
- Dorothy Perkins
- dress manufacturer
- dresses
- driven
- Dulverton
- elegant
- Elliott Bernard
- Elton John
- Empire
- England
- entrepreneur
- Essex
- Euston Road
- exceptional loss
- Exmoor
- fanatical golfer
- fashion
- fashion buyer
- fashion retailer
- fashion world
- fast fashion
- Ferrari
- Ferrari F430 Spider
- Finchley
- fish
- Fitrozy Square
- focused
- food
- former stables of Pixton Park
- fortune
- fractious relationship with Robin Birley
- Freemans
- French brasserie chain
- Fresh Start
- fully equipped bar
- garment
- garments
- gave up modeling three days after the couple met
- George
- Georgian stables
- German
- German Shepherd
- GI
- global
- globe
- golf
- golf course
- golfing
- Great Portland Street
- green
- Grosvenor Square
- group of brands
- hair
- Hampstead
- Hampstead Garden Suburb
- Hampstead Heath
- Harald Samuelson
- Harry's Bar
- HBoS
- Henry Moore
- high fashion
- High Street
- high street retailers
- Hong Kong
- hospital
- how to blend in with the locals
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caring
- http://www.business-sale.com/news/article/cte-sale-could-be-on-the-cards-36789.html
- http://www.caprice.co.uk
- http://www.tatler.com/the-tatler-list/c/richard-caring
- I get hugely disappointed when politics comes before sense
- I must smell the roses
- I speak to him every day
- I think we’d do anything for each other
- I would very much have liked to go to university
- ICD
- International Clothing Designs
- international gap in the market
- investigation
- investment
- it does change the way you think
- Italian
- Italian-American
- Italy
- J Sheekey
- Jackie Caring
- Jackie Stead
- jackiecaring@aol.com
- Jacqueline Caring
- Jacqueline Stead
- James Bond
- Jamie Caring
- jet
- Jew
- Jewish
- joint venture
- journalistic
- Judaism
- JV
- Karen Millen
- keep fit
- keeping fit
- Kitous
- knitwear
- LA
- Labour
- Labour Party
- lake
- Le Caprice
- Le Caprice group
- Le Caprice New York
- let’s throw him to work
- leveraged buyout
- Lex Luther of Mayfair
- living out of a suitcase
- loan to Labour
- loan to Labour Party
- local manufacturers
- London
- London as a city and England as a country are being damaged for no good reasons other than political ones
- London as starting point
- Londoner
- Lord Levy
- Los Angeles
- Louis Caring Originals
- Louis Caringi
- Luke Johnson
- luxury flats
- LVMH
- Lydia Slater
- magnificent hair
- major
- Maldives
- management
- manouevre
- manouvre
- Mark Birley
- Mark Hix
- Mark’s Club
- Marks & Spencer
- masterplan
- Matisse
- media
- media coverage
- member's club
- members clubs
- Miami
- Michael Parnes
- mid-market
- Middlesex
- Millfield College
- mini-skirts
- minority shareholder
- money repaid
- Monopoly
- Moroccan
- Mothercare
- Mr Caring
- Mr Samuelson
- MS
- MTV Networks Europe
- my two sons nearly drowned with me
- Napoleonic Ball
- near death experience
- Near East
- never eats breakfast or lunch
- new opportunity
- next
- Nick Jones
- nightclub
- nightclubs
- no wrongdoing
- non-dom
- non-domiciled
- North London
- north of Oxford Street
- NSPCC
- NV
- NW1
- NW11
- off-shore companies
- office boy
- offices
- Old Park Lane Capital
- opportunities
- opportunity
- Otto
- Otto Versand
- Oxford Street
- painting
- paintings
- Parnes
- partner
- Pasha
- pet stags shot by mystery killers
- Phil Green
- Philanthropist
- philanthropy
- Philip Green
- Pixton Park
- Pixton Stables
- plane
- playing off scratch
- poker
- politics
- portfolio
- portfolio builder
- practical work experience
- Prada
- pre-tax loss
- press
- private jet
- private members club
- private plane
- profit
- profits
- properties
- property
- property deals
- property development
- questioning reasoning
- raising the standard of the food
- recovery married
- refined
- relations
- relief effort
- reshape the group
- residence
- residences
- resident in Hong Kong
- resident ina a hotel
- restaurant
- restaurant chain
- restaurant equivalent of LVMH
- restaurant link
- restaurants
- restaurateur
- retail
- retail chain
- retailer
- retailers
- rich
- Rich List
- Richard
- Richard Caring
- riches
- Rivington
- Robert Tchenguiz
- Robin Birley
- roll out
- rolled out
- roof terrace
- Royal College of Art
- rumours
- Run
- running
- Russia
- Russian
- saved family business
- saved the house in the end
- Scott's
- scuba diving
- Shenfield
- shooting
- shopping centre
- Signature Restaurants
- Simon Cowell
- single brands
- Sir Elton John
- Sir Philip Green
- Sir Tom Hunter
- Soho House
- sold it on
- sold share
- sold shares
- Somerset
- South of England
- speculation
- spent £8 million flying in 450 guests by private jet
- sporting
- sporting prowess
- sporting scholarship
- sports
- St. Petersburg
- stag
- stags
- stay out of the limelight
- Strada
- strength
- successful companies regularly receive approaches
- Sunday Times
- Sunday Times Rich List
- supermarket-sweep approach
- supplier
- supplier to the chain
- Surinder Arora
- SW1
- SW3
- SW7
- Sylvia Parnes
- TA22 9HW
- takeover
- Tara Bernerd
- Tatler
- teeth
- The Bishops Avenue
- The Ivy
- the man who controls your social life
- The Sunday Times
- the way you look at the world
- there’s only one Wentworth in the world
- Thomas Noel
- three brands can travel
- Together
- Tony Kitous
- Top Man
- Topshop
- trade
- trading
- trusts
- U.S.
- underpants
- United Kingdom
- United States
- United States of America
- USA
- Versailles of London
- vice president
- villain
- Vitenamese
- W1
- W1T 1HJ
- W8
- Wales
- WC2
- we are not currently exploring a sale
- We’re like brothers
- We’re more than friends
- We’ve grown up together and experienced lots of good times and tough times
- wealth
- wealthy
- Wentworth Golf Club
- Wentworth is to golf what Wimbeldon is to tennis
- West End
- Whistles
- white cat
- white teeth
- Wimbledon
- Winter Palace
- World War II
- you get a broader mindset
- younger crowd
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