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When Ged joined the company, he started out by making coffee and running errands. When Gerry retired in , Ged took over the running of the family firm. He also owns racehorses, with Sir Alex Ferguson being a notable co-owner. Brian Kennedy grew up in high-rise council flats in Edinburgh, Scotland.
His father was a window cleaner, and a young Brian would work for him during school holidays. Kennedy trained in accountancy and went to work in his early twenties in a kitchen design company.
Kennedy went on to own several different businesses in real estate and the home improvement industry. He purchased well-known company Weatherseal and built it up to be a major player in double glazing. He also founded telecommunications company Genesis in The company provided mobile phone services to other businesses. Having grown up in Edinburgh, Kennedy was also a big supporter of the local soccer club Hearts. However, he set his sights on buying city rivals Hibernians when they were in financial trouble.
That deal eventually fell through. When the sport of Rugby Union went professional, a lot of the mid-sized clubs got into financial trouble.
Kennedy spotted that London Scottish Rugby Club was on the brink of closure. He put together a proposal to buy London Scottish and move the club up to Edinburgh. Kennedy played amateur rugby in his twenties and thirties for Wilmslow, a small rugby club located a few miles from Manchester.
There was plenty of interchange of players between the two amateur clubs. But Kennedy was in the perfect place to follow the troubled times of Sale Rugby Club in its early years of professionalism. The new professional outfit was in financial difficulties when Kennedy stepped in. Blackhurst also partnered with Kennedy to form telecommunications firm Genesis.
Kennedy and Blackhurst purchased Sale Rugby through Genesis which was owned by the two business partners. However, when they wanted to sell Genesis in the mids, they transferred the ownership of Sale out of the telecom and into private ownership. Kennedy and Blackhurst purchased the majority club shareholding from a small group of businessmen who invested in the new professional club in It was Walker who rebranded the Sale rugby club as Sale Sharks during his short time in charge. When professional rugby was introduced in England in , Sale Rugby Club formed a private legal entity owned by club members.
The club committee ran the day-to-day operations of the company.
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