Sarah Willingham

Entrepreneur

Sarah Willingham was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom on December 21st, 1973 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 50, Sarah Willingham biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
December 21, 1973
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom
Age
50 years old
Zodiac Sign
Sagittarius
Profession
Businessperson, Restaurateur
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Education
Cranfield University, Oxford Brookes University, École supérieure de commerce de La Rochelle
Sarah Willingham Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Michael Willingham-Toxvaerd (m. 2008)
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4
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Sarah Willingham Career

Willingham spent the early years of her career managing some restaurants including Chessageed Delights, Planet Hollywood and Pizza Express.

In partnership with The Clapham House Group, she bought The Bombay Bicycle Club in 2004, and expanded the company, making it the largest Indian restaurant chain in the United Kingdom. Willingham sold her share back to The Clapham House Group in 2007 where she continued as a main board director responsible for three of their four brands (Tootsies, The Real Greek and The Bombay Bicycle Club) with over 50 restaurants and more than 1,500 employees.

In 2004, Willingham co-established an AIM-listed company, Neutrahealth plc, which acquired six businesses in the vitamin and mineral supplements industry and was sold to Indian company Elder Pharmaceuticals Ltd in 2011.

In April 2008, she co-established a private equity platform in the UK.

In 2010, Willingham invested in the London Cocktail Club. The first cocktail bar opened in 2011 on Goodge Street, London. In February 2012 the London Cocktail Club added their second cocktail bar on Shaftesbury Avenue, Their third opened in Great Portland Street, London in 2013.

Management Today named her as one of the "35 most successful women under 35" in the UK. In January 2016, Willingham was named one of The Sunday Times' '500 Most Influential people in Britain'. In 2017 Willingham received an honorary doctorate from Staffordshire University and in 2018 she received honorary doctorates from Cranfield University and Oxford Brookes University in recognition of her contribution to business and entrepreneurship.

Sarah is chair of the PE-backed Tonkotsu Group and a shareholder of the UK’s largest subscription business for alcohol, ‘Craft Gin Club’. As a director of and a shareholder in the London Cocktail Club, Sarah has played a pivotal role since its inception and will lead the next stage of its expansion as CEO and Founder of the AIM listed Nightcap PLC. Started in 2020 Nightcap PLC will acquire, recapitalise and develop drinks-led concepts with significant potential across the UK. Nightcap PLC owns and runs the following brands; Cocktail Club, Barrio Familia and Adventure Bar Group. www.nightcapplc.com

Willingham was a restaurant inspector and investor on three series of Raymond Blanc's The Restaurant and as an independent investor on the Sky television series Cooks to Market.

She has appeared on various TV programmes, including Daybreak, This Morning, The Wright Stuff and Sky News.

In March 2015, Willingham was named as one of the new "Dragons" on the BBC television programme Dragons' Den from the thirteenth series which began airing in July 2015. She returned to Dragons' Den for the fourteenth series, beginning in July 2016.

In September 2016, Willingham took part in a celebrity episode of The Chase.

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Losses grow at Nightcap as bar owner says difficult trading conditions have continued

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 18, 2024
Hospitality firm Nightcap, founded by ex-Dragons' Den star Sarah Willingham, admitted trading has remained challenging as it reported first-half losses doubled. The cocktail bar operator, founded by ex-Dragons' Den star Sarah Willingham, said it expected trading conditions to stay subdued for the rest of the financial year.

The nightcap stocks are down a smidgeon as the bar company's poor start to the year has overshadowed

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 20, 2024
Following a statement that trading had been 'far softer' than anticipated when the year began, the bar operator, co-founded by former Dragons Den actor Sarah Willingham, saw the decline decline 8.2 percent to 4.5 percent by the late afternoon. It was blamed on continued cost-of-living pressures, workplace strikes by railway employees,'above inflation rises' in business rates, and other expenses, as well as the forthcoming rise to the UK Living Wage.

Analysts are looking at more M&A for the hospitality industry in the United Kingdom

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 9, 2023
In late October, Wagamama's parent company, The Restaurant Group (TRG), agreed to a £506 million buyout by private equity behemoth Apollo Global Management. In a £162 million contract, serial entrepreneur Clive Watson made another good income by selling City Pub Group to pub chain Young's a month later.
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