FROM THE HOSPITAL WARD TO THE BOARDROOM: THE RISE OF ANN GLOAG
Ann Gloag, a trained nurse, has previously told how she amassed her wealth by 'fighting for survival'.
Before her business career, she worked as a unit sister in Bridge of Earn Hospital, Perthshire, where she met her future husband, Robin Gloag, while he was a patient.
By the 1970s, the couple were running a small caravan sales business. But, after 20 years in nursing, Mrs Gloag branched out.
The couple, along with Mrs Gloag's brother Brian Soutar, now chairman Stagecoach, bought a bus for £425. Their intention was to take the trip of a lifetime to China but the plan failed through visa problems.
Businesswoman Mrs Gloag, pictured in 1990 on one the buses which made her family their millions
Instead, the entrepreneurs were invited by a construction company to provide transport for workers travelling to building sites.
The brother and sister realised the potential and with their savings and their father's timely redundancy payment of £25,000, they bought two more buses.
Stagecoach expanded from its limited Perthshire routes to offering cheap tickets between Dundee and London.
The venture took off and Stagecoach Group is now an international company operating buses, trains, trams and ferries.
Mrs Gloag serves as a non- executive director. Her former husband was killed in a car crash in December 2007.
Source: the dailymail
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