Carol Kane (businesswoman)

Kane started her career as a designer, going to Berkshire College of Art & Design in Maidenhead Berkshire, before moving to London.^[2] In 1993, she took a position working as a senior designer for Pinstripe Clothing.^[2]

Boohoo was founded in 2006 by Carol Kane and Mahmud Kamani, who are joint chief executives.^[3]

Boohoo also runs boohooMAN.com, PrettyLittleThing.com and NastyGal.com and all of the brands are targeted at 16-24 year olds.^[4]

In April 2017, Boohoo announced that its profits had almost doubled to £31 million on sales up by 51% to almost £300 million.^[5] When the company was floated on the stock market in 2014, it was valued at £560 million, and was worth about £2 billion as of April 2017.^[5]

Kane has a long-term partner of 30 years and they live in Stafford with their four dogs.^[2][6]