Financial Times – Natalie Graham SEPTEMBER 18 2019 Andy Scott, 40, used a £5,000 inheritance to buy his first house for renovation at 18, and went on to develop more than 500 properties. He has also purchased a number of companies from administration before turning them round. His companies are owned by REL UK Holdings, […]
By Will SmaleBusiness reporter, BBC News The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to serial UK entrepreneur Andy Scott. When Andy Scott was run over by a taxi, breaking both his legs and all his fingers, it was the least of his problems. “The […]
Maserati 2019 Scott, 40, launched REL Capital in 2016 to help turn around struggling businesses. REL owns 12 small companies in sectors such as recruitment, hospitality and transport. It turned over more than £30m in 2018.
Portsmouth – The News AN ENTREPRENEUR who grew up in Portsmouth has been named in a national list of the top 100 businessmen. Andy Scott, age 40, has a number of businesses, including investment company REL Capital, which have helped turn him into a multi-millionaire. Since completing his 10th takeover in two years back in […]
The Times It is fair to say that Andy Scott did not see the 2008 financial crash coming. The entrepreneur was a property developer who had built up a chain of eight hotels along the south coast of England. He was enjoying the fruits of a debt-fuelled lifestyle. “Everyone was throwing money at you in […]
Dailymail Few teenagers have the gumption to take a small windfall and turn it into a million pound property business. But that’s exactly what entrepreneur Andy Scott did when he inherited £5,000 from his grandmother at the tender age of 18 while working the door of nightclubs. Taking advantage of his connections – many of […]
Standard The first thing you notice when you walk into Andy Scott’s rather cramped office is the desk; that’s because the desk is the main reason his office is cramped. Imagine something the size of the thing that Huw Edwards sits behind to read the BBC News at Ten, or Captain Picard on board the […]
Metro The entrepreneur on the lessons he learnt in the 2008 crash and why he couldn’t bear to part with his plane What was your first job? Working on the doors of Portsmouth nightclubs when I was 16. I did that three nights a week. Regulations have been tightened up since then. It paid £6 […]
Real Business Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are stepping down from the helm due to differences between their vision and that of Facebook. There will be no doubt that applications will be rolling in for their replacements, despite the big boots to fill. For all new savvy business people looking for their next […]