October 01, 2019 at 06:23AM
The chairwoman of Patient Capital has chosen a low profile since the investment trust got into difficulties, refusing all requests to speak to journalists. Susan Searle prefers to communicate through official company announcements only, her spokesman said yesterday.
It is not her only encounter with a company bruised by disastrous publicity. She joined Ratners months after Gerald Ratner, the jewellery chain's founder, had jokingly disparaged one of his products as "total crap" in a speech at the Royal Albert Hall in 1991, sending his company into a tailspin.
Mr Ratner, who was forced out a year later, famously referred to one of his earring sets as "cheaper than an M&S prawn sandwich but probably wouldn't last as long".
At the time, the Oxford-educated Ms Searle…
The chairwoman of Patient Capital has chosen a low profile since the investment trust got into difficulties, refusing all requests to speak to journalists. Susan Searle prefers to communicate through official company announcements only, her spokesman said yesterday.
It is not her only encounter with a company bruised by disastrous publicity. She joined Ratners months after Gerald Ratner, the jewellery chain's founder, had jokingly disparaged one of his products as "total crap" in a speech at the Royal Albert Hall in 1991, sending his company into a tailspin.
Mr Ratner, who was forced out a year later, famously referred to one of his earring sets as "cheaper than an M&S prawn sandwich but probably wouldn't last as long".
At the time, the Oxford-educated Ms Searle…