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21 Jason Petsch Jeremy Mogford


Year of Birth: 1947 Residence: Oxford


Year of Birth: 1973 Residence: Reading


Business: GRITIT – co-founder, now CEO. Developed from a gritting business to a company that delivers protection against ice-related risk on a financial and operational level. Director of seven other companies. Also acts as a mentor for Surrey Entrepreneurs


Business Location: Stockley Park, Uxbridge Turnover and year: £7.7 million in 2011


Description: Operator turned entrepreneur and business mentor, who has grown the company from start-up to a turnover approaching £10m


Business: Mogford – High-end boutique hotels and restaurants transformed with vision and style. The Old Parsonage Hotel, opened in 1989 and has just undergone a £1.5 million major refurbishment and extension. The Old Bank Hotel opened in 1998 in the High Street, Oxford. Voted Best City Hotel in 2011. Houses Quod Brasserie in the banking hall


Gee’s (restaurant) in North Oxford is in a recently refurbished grade II listed Victorian conservatory, dating back to 1898. Formerly a florist and a greengrocer it was originally restored by Mogford over 20 years ago


Business Location: Oxford Turnover and year: Mogford Ltd – £10.5m 2012


Description: Long-time hospitality industry entrepreneur and art collector


Commentary: Petsch started out as a lieutenant in the South African Parachute Regiment before joining the family wholesale agriculture supplies business. Moved to UK in 1999, worked for several companies in marketing and publishing.


GRITIT was founded in 2004 with Alastair Kight, after they met in 2001 on a gritting job. Sales rose 83% a year from £845k in 2007 to £5.2m in 2010.


The company has won several awards, including Provider of the Year 2013 in the British Institute of Facilities Management Awards and rankings in the Sunday Times Fast Track List of UK’s top 100 growth companies two years on the run - 2011 & 2012.


Quote: “Believe in what you do.“


Commentary: Mogford entered the hospitality market in 1973 with a £10,000 investment in the first Browns Restaurant and Bar in Brighton. Establishing a chain of seven restaurants in university towns by 1996 with a turnover of £15m he sold to Bass Brewery for £35m.


In the early days he formed a partnership with Raymond Blanc to create a bakery and patisserie, Maison Blanc. Other businesses included The Duke of Cambridge bar in Little Clarendon Street and Gee’s restaurant in North Oxford.


Moving on into the ’80s and ’90s Mogford had an instinct to select interesting buildings and refurbished them to a high standard, which has been a successful theme of Mogford’s business development.


Supporter of the arts and local events, Jeremy Mogford was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Brookes University in 2001 and in 2004 became a member of its Court.


Most recently, Mogford has plans to renovate an Oxford building, 36 St Giles, to convert into another hotel.


Quote: “I remain optimistic about Oxford as a buoyant city.“


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THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – OCTOBER 2014


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