David Beattie (businessman)
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David Beattie | |
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| Born | 1955 (age 70–71) |
| Occupations | Entrepreneur, business executive, ex -chairman of Partick Thistle F.C. |
David Beattie (born 1955) is a British business executive who was the founder of Enterprise Foods Ltd and was previously chairman of Scottish Championship football club Partick Thistle.
Born in Whiteinch in 1955, David's father (a Partick born-man) was determined that his son would be the new striker for Thistle. However a footballing career never came into fruition. Educated in Linwood, he achieved very little academically but has always harboured a determination to succeed at whatever he turned his hand to.[1]
Career
In the course of the last 30 years, he started and sold a number of companies in the food & drink industry, most recently creating the Enterprise Food Group Ltd in 1995 from the basement of his house.
He grew the company from a zero start to a position where it was employing over 500 people within the bakery sector, supplying supermarkets with cakes and related products and, in 2005, he sold the manufacturing arm of the company.[2]
