Besides his wide experience with large organisations including ICI Ltd, Vickers Ltd, the RIL Group and Moss Bros, he has owned and run a retail store in Bristol, a photographic and film company in London with Lord Christopher Thynne, an advertising agency, a management consultancy, a 17th century hotel in Somerset, and a small farm in southwest France. He was chief examiner to the Institute of Marketing for eleven years, senior lecturer at Mid-Kent University, and for fifteen years, marketing co