Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms
Harold Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms, Kt, (born 21 November 1939) is the life president and former chairman of DSG International plc (formerly Dixons Group). DSG owns Dixons.com, Currys, The Link and PC World outlets. He spent his entire career from 1948 working for Dixons, which was founded by his father Charles Kalms in 1937.[1]
[edit] Career
Lord Kalms was educated at Christ's College, Finchley. He joined Dixons in 1948 at the age of 16 and over the years grew the company from a one-store family business into Europe's leading specialist electrical retailer. Stanley Kalms was appointed Chairman of the Dixons Group plc in 1971. He is also a Governor of Dixons City Academy in Bradford, West Yorkshire (where the state of the art theatre complex is named in his honour), a Director of Business for Sterling, and a Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
Lord Kalms is also involved in many private charitable activities including the setting up of the Stanley Kalms Foundation in London and the Stanley Kalms Readership in Business Ethics and Strategic Management at University of North London. He is also involved in the King's Hospital ISLET Diabetes Research Programme.
Lord Kalms has close connections to the University of Buckingham. He received an honorary degree from Buckingham and Chris Woodhead is the Sir Stanley Kalms Professor of Education.
Lord Kalms has written in the press on the subjects of European Monetary Union (EMU), and on Corporate Governance; and a book - A Time to Change - a review of the activities of the United Synagogue (1996).
He received his knighthood in the 1996 New Years Honours[2][3] for his services to the electrical retailing industry and made a life peer as Baron Kalms, of Edgware in the London Borough of Barnet in 2004.[4]
Lord Kalms was treasurer of the Conservative Party, 2001-3. Like many in the party, he opposes the euro. He's a member of Conservative Friends of Israel. Lord Kalms attacked William Hague for his position on the Israel attack in Lebanon, calling him an "ignorant armchair critic" and that remarks were "downright dangerous".[5] He was the Director of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) think tank from 1991-2001.
Lord Kalms is a member of the Carlton Club.
[edit] Personal Life
- ^ Dixons through the ages
- ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 54255. p. 2. December 29th, 1995.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 54537. p. 1. September 27th, 1996.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 57308. p. 1. June 4th, 2004.
- ^ Cameron faces revolt over Israel
Stanley is married to Lady Pamela Kalms.
He has three children, all boys, eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Lord Kalms supports Tottenham Hotspurs.
He has a second home in Portugal where he spends a lot of his time.
[edit] Further reading
- KALMS, Sir (Harold) Stanley International Who's Who. accessed September 4, 2006.
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