Hints and tips:
...The best gift I’ve ever been given was from Ken Tyrrell, when I retired from motor racing. He gave me the Tyrrell that I won my first world championship with. It was a terrible car....
...“Buy the one you always wanted,” says Iain Tyrrell, the Chester-based oracle of classic cars....
...In Sonoma, he was well and truly bitten by the wine bug and went on to work at Tyrrell’s in Australia’s Hunter Valley as well as in South Africa and the Rhône....
...Sir William Tyrrell, permanent under-secretary at the UK Foreign Office, called him “a thoroughly impractical theorist”....
...It also has a fantastic choice of restaurants, whatever the meal, whether you want to stay healthy or treat yourself if you have done the healthy part in other ways — Adam Tyrrell, accountant, London, UK...
...Jace Tyrrell, chief executive, said: “There were good queues at Next, which is good for them, and for Selfridges ahead of their opening at 9am.”...
...The sale marks the third time Tyrrells has changed ownership since it was established in 2002 in Herefordshire by William Chase. In 2008 he sold the company for £30m....
...Perhaps the tale of William Chase, founder of Tyrrells crisps, lingered in their minds....
...Herefordshire potato farmer William Chase, 50, invested £1.5m in Tyrrells Potato Chips in 2002, after sourcing knowledge and equipment in the US. Three years later the company’s turnover reached £10m....
...Names like Brabham, McLaren, Surtees, Tyrrell were all owner-managers, as adept with an oily rag as with a balance sheet. As F1 became more professional, the teams grew in size as organisations....
...An example is William Chase, the potato farmer who founded Tyrrells crisps. Farming is dominated by family-owned operations, and generally requires significant capital while offering volatile returns....
...Also prominent in the cast is Paul Chahidi, doubling as the too-trusting Lord Hastings and the later-acts henchman Sir William Tyrrell....
...It seems the rich are not all alike: “for Chinese shoppers, it’s all about the wrap: they love tissue paper,” says Jace Tyrrell of London Luxury. “And don’t sell them any clocks!” he says....
...He is an enterprising fellow: previously he founded Tyrrell’s crisps, which he sold in 2008 for £30m....
...William Chase, founder of upmarket brands Tyrrell’s potato chips and now Chase Distillery, faces very a different exporting challenge: he is trying to get a physical product on the shelves of foreign countries...
...To round off the tasting, we threw in two festive flavourings from Tyrrells – Turkey & Chestnut Stuffing and Stilton & Grape....
...Chase Vodka has only been in production since 2008, when potato farmer William Chase decided to diversify....
...While running that business, he conceived Perplex City as a modern version of Masquerade, the 1979 book by Kit Williams whose illustrations contained clues leading to a gold, bejewelled hare, buried somewherein...
...William Chase is not, he tells me, “a corporate person”....
...Judging by Babel Media’s recent growth, Mr Williams has good reason to be ambitious....
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