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unusual facts about Fortnum


Fortnum

Peggy Fortnum, English writer and illustrator, notably of Paddington Bear.


H. Stuart Menzies

Menzies initially worked for Fortnum and Mason running their Invalid Delicasies Food Department before becoming a copywriter and producing the Commentaries for Fortnum & Mason - a new style of direct mail booklets illustrated by W Hendy, Menzies and Edward Bawden.

Jana Khayat

Since the death of their father, Jana's brothers George and Guy have run Associated British Foods and Wittington Investments Ltd. (the parent company of Fortnums's and ABF) respectively while Khayat control of Fortnum's aided by her younger sister, Kate Hobhouse, as a non-executive director.

The third child of Garry Weston, billionaire chairman of Associated British Foods, Jana graduated from Oxford University with a history degree before joining the Fortnum & Mason management team.


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