Ted Tuppen

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Graham Edward Tuppen CBE (born 1952) is the founder of Enterprise Inns, one of the largest public house chains in the United Kingdom.

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Career

Trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG, Ted Tuppen undertook an MBA at Cranfield School of Management before becoming Managing Director of a private engineering business in 1981. [1]

KPMG professional services company

KPMG is a professional service company and one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Cranfield School of Management

Cranfield School of Management, established in 1967, is a business school that is part of Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. It was ranked among the Top 30 European Business Schools by the Financial Times in 2017. Cranfield School of Management is triple accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), EQUIS and AACSB. It is particularly well-known for its MSc Logistics & Supply Chain Management, MSc Finance and Management, MSc Management as well as its MBA programme. Cranfield University, the UK’s only wholly postgraduate university, specialises in science, technology, engineering, and management.

In 1991 he founded Enterprise Inns when he bought 368 pubs from Bass and expanded the business though further acquisition into the largest chain of public houses in the United Kingdom. [2]

Bass Brewery company

The Bass Brewery was founded in 1777 by William Bass in Burton-upon-Trent, England. The main brand was Bass Pale Ale, once the highest-selling beer in the UK. By 1877, Bass had become the largest brewery in the world, with an annual output of one million barrels. Its pale ale was exported throughout the British Empire, and the company's distinctive red triangle became the UK's first registered trade mark.

In 2003 the Daily Telegraph named him Entrepreneur of the Year. [3]

More recently he was awarded the CBE in the New Year Honours List 2007. [4]

The New Year Honours is a part of the British honours system, with New Year's Day, 1 January, being marked by naming new members of orders of chivalry and recipients of other official honours. A number of other Commonwealth realms also mark this day in this way.

Also in 2007 he set up the Tuppen Charitable Trust, listed at Open Charities as 'Charitable giving to causes deemed by the trustees to merit support, focus on helping people to help themselves.' [5]

Ted Tuppen stood down as Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Inns in February 2014. [6]

Other interests

Tuppen also owns a farm in Devon. [7]

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