Trading his way to the top
Sunday 29th March 2009
Source: Sunday Herald
If you want to get your head around Shaf Rasul - new inhabitant of the BBC's Dragons Den, richest Scottich Asian and supercharged dealmakers - you might as well start with the day he tried to sell Sly Bailey a private car registration plate.
"I phoned her husband, Peter Bailey," he laughs. "I told him I had the number plate 1 SLY and asked if he wanted to buy it for his wife. I'm a salesman and I'd thought, 'what do you buy the chief exec of a huge company like Trinity Mirror for her birthday?' I knew it was best to go through him..."
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