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Doug Perkins

@dougperkins

co-founder of Specsavers

Building Specsavers as Founder · United Kingdom

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Born
1943
Educated at
Cardiff University · University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology

About

Doug Perkins is a business executive, born in 1943 in Llanelli. They studied at Cardiff University. They served as managing director.

In context

Specsavers was founded in 1983 and has no closure on record. Among the 69 other retail companies founded in the 1980s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 27 years.

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