An Industrial Cocktail: Bob Haslam, The Rt. Hon. The Lord Barnett PC
Editorial Reviews
Lord Haslam was a giant of British industry. Widely acclaimed by business and political leaders, he had a remarkable record of reaching the top of the management ladder and staying there. Completing his memoirs while dying from cancer, he tells a compelling business story of the unexpected. Though without academic brilliance or burning ambition, he was singled out as a high-flyer, rising to the top of British industry. Yet his humor still shines through, for asked how he chaired at the same time the two contrasting businesses of sugar and steel, he disarmingly replied, “with difficulty.”
About the Author
Lord Haslam was born in Bolton in 1923 and graduated from Birmingham University with a first-class mining degree. He started work at Manchester Collieries and in 1947 was recruited by ICI’s Nobel Division, the beginning of a global career spanning thirty-three years with Britain’s biggest industrial company. He later became a deputy chairman at ICI and moved on to be chairman of Tate & Lyle and British Steel as well as spending five years as British Coal chairman up to 1990. Lord Haslam was also on the Court of the Bank of England from 1985-93 and an advisory director of Unilever PLC at around the same time. In semi-retirement he was chairman of Bechtel Ltd and Wasserstein Perella. His first wife, Joyce, died in 1995 and he died in November 2002. Lord Haslam is survived by his second wife, Elizabeth.
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