Summary
Twins Don and Roy Richardson are renowned for transforming the former Round Oak steel works at Brierley Hill into the Merry Hill shopping centre.
As joint managing directors of the Richardson Group, their speciality has been high quality office, leisure and retail development, often on redundant brownfield sites.See the full content of this document
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Just Black Country Likely Lads
But the empire they founded now goes much further than the West Midlands, much further than the UK even.
With the second generation, Roy's sons Lee, Martyn and Carl in the lead, there are schemes across Europe and North America.Born in Brierley Hill in 1930 - Roy is 10 minutes older - they both left school at 14 and completed their National Service in the Royal Air Force, side by side.They began their business career working for their father in the family firm selling used commercial vehicles, before their big break came through their vision for Merry Hill.The site had stood derelict for 18 months be...See the full content of this document
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