Willie Haughey

Quick Facts

Full Name	Willie Haughey
Date Of Birth	Jul 2, 1956(1956-07-02)
Age	68
Birthplace	Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Cancer

Willie Haughey Biography

Willie Haughey is one of the most popular and richest Businessperson who was born on July 2, 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. William Haughey, Baron Haughey OBE (born 2 July 1956) is a Scottish businessman, philanthropist, and chairman of City Facilities Management Holdings Ltd.

He also contributed PS2 million of funding towards the Scottish Cup while the tournament was not a major sponsor between 2008 and 2010 and the Scottish Government permitted to utilize the “branding space’ contest to help promote its Homecoming Scotland 2009 and Active Nation initiatives.

Haughey has been named in several newspaper reports in connection with the resignation of Steven Purcell, the leader of Glasgow City Council until 2010.

He is a huge Oasis fan and has confessed to liking 80s band A-ha after a City employee offered him free tickets to an A-ha concert during the band’s 2010 farewell tour.

Haughey had been to Holyrood Secondary School followed by Langside College, and then worked in the refrigeration and air conditioning sector within Abu Dhabi before returning to Scotland to start his own company with the savings of PS70,000 he’d earned. He started City Refrigeration, a refrigeration service provider for maintenance and equipment along with his wife Susan in 1985.

Willie Haughey Net Worth

Willie Haughey is one of the richest Businessperson from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Willie Haughey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Haughey was married to Susan in 1978. He has one son Kenny. When he is not working,, he likes to play in tournaments and golf. He once admitted that he ends his day on Friday nights with a fish-based meal.

After securing a service agreement with the Tennent’s business in the early 1980s that resulted in agreements with other brewery owners, he decided to sell his majority stake to the 3i equity company. A decline in the economic situation led Haughey to dispose of two smaller companies which he’d founded to City to boost turnover and expand the scope of services offered by the company. In 1997, City entered into a contract with Asda to keep refrigeration equipment at its stores across all of the United Kingdom. Because of the success of the project, Haughey and his wife were able to purchase the complete control of City starting at 3i In 1999 which allowed them to be a key player into the future direction of the company as well as a gradual and continuous expansion of the company’s operations was followed by the subsequent years.

While the City technical division is located in Clydesmill Industrial Estate near to Cambuslang, its corporate headquarters are at Caledonia House in Gorbals, Glasgow, having relocated from nearby Shawfield in 2009 when those premises were demolished for construction of the M74 motorway completion. The new site was virtually on the site of Haughey’s childhood home which had been demolished years earlier with the family moving on to the newly-built Toryglen neighbourhood a short distance to the south.

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Who is Willie Haughey Dating?

According to our records, Willie Haughey married to Susan Haughey. As of December 1, 2023, Willie Haughey’s is not dating anyone.

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The 2017 edition of the Sunday Times Rich List estimated his family’s fortune at £265 million.

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Willie Ranked on the list of most popular Businessperson. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Willie Haughey celebrates birthday on July 2 of every year.

In 2018, Haughey was reported as having become involved in discussions between the Scottish Football Association and Queen’s Park F.C. over the future use of Hampden Park, the stadium used by the former but owned by the latter. With the SFA threatening to move their matches to Edinburgh and unwilling to pay more than £2 million to buy Hampden from Queen’s Park while the club demanded £6 million, Haughey stepped in with an offer to ‘split the difference’ by adding a contribution to raise the purchase offer to £4 million, in order for Scotland matches and cup finals to remain in their traditional Glasgow home. He had already donated funds to Queen’s Park a decade earlier to help improve the facilities at their Lesser Hampden training ground, which would become the first team match venue in 2021 once the sale of the main stadium was completed.

Does Willie Haughey own Celtic Park?

Almost a year after Celtic Park was acquired by Willie Haughey then security over the asset was given to the Co-operative Bank for Celtic’s current 34 million loan & overdraft.

What is Willie Haughey worth?

The 2017 edition of the Sunday Times Rich List estimated his family’s fortune at £265 million.

Who owns City fm?

Established in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1985 by Willie and Susan Haughey (now Lord and Lady Haughey), City Facilities Management Holdings Ltd. has become one of the world’s largest privately-held, integrated facilities maintenance companies.

Who has more fans Celtic or Rangers?

Rangers, who play at the 50,817 capacity Ibrox, averaged 49,147 fans per game in the 2017/18 season. Celtic, who play at the 60,832 capacity Celtic Park, averaged 57,523 fans across the same campaign.

Do Celtic rent their stadium?

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Celtic F.C.| 1892–present