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Dean Hoyle - Founder, Card Factory

1315 - 1400

A frank Q&A with one of Yorkshire's highest profile entrepreneurs.

Current Huddersfield Town Chairman Dean Hoyle was born in Wakefield in 1967.

The former engineering apprenctice together with wife Janet, set up greetings card retailer Card Factory in 1997.

Over 13 years, Dean built a business empire consisting of over 500 shops nationwide, employing over 5,000 people – an achievement that saw him named Ernst & Young North and Midlands Entrepreneur of the Year in June 2009.

Dean became Chairman of Huddersfield Town in June 2009, having joined the Board of Directors as Chairman-elect in April 2008. In March 2010 Dean became sole owner of Huddersfield Town and on 8th April 2010, Card Factory was sold to private equity group Charterhouse. Dean still retains a role in the business as non-executive Chairman.

This session will be run as a question and answer session allowing WBC delegates to pick his brains and find out what is relevant to them.

Dean will offer delegates a forthright insight into how starting selling greetings cards from the back of an old van lead to the mind-boggling sale of Card Factory and then owning the football club he has supported man and boy.

This is a fantastic opportunity to pick the brains of one of the UK's leading business figures who began his journey in Wakefield.

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