Haji-Ioannou continues to extend his business interests, mainly in the field of travel and leisure by encouraging entrepreneurs to adopt the "easy" brand for their companies. He followed that up with an MSc in Shipping, Trade and Finance from Cass Business School at City University, London. Haji-Ioannou was a member of the New Enterprise Council, a group set up to advise the Conservative Party on business policy. He was educated in Athens at the Doukas High School and in 1984 continued his education at the London School of Economics, graduating with a BSc Econ in 1987. [1], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loucas_Haji-Ioannou&oldid=944707129, Articles needing additional references from November 2016, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 9 March 2020, at 13:14. The case was eventually settled out of court, with Haji-Ioannou receiving an official apology from the airline and the sum of £50,100, which Haji-Ioannou announced he would donate to his philanthropic foundation.[14]. Family business background: Stelios, was born in Athens, Greece on 14 February 1967, the son of the late Loucas Haji-Ioannou, a self-made Greek-Cypriot shipping magnate. He was the father of the founder of the EasyJet airline, Stelios Haji-Ioannou. In 2005, easyGroup threatened legal action against a Welsh business which had been trading as easymobile since 2003 despite being established some two years before the launch of Haji-Ioannou’s business easyMobile.com. Haji-Ioannou blamed an error by one of the surviving crew. "[19], In an April 2010 letter to the Daily Telegraph, Haji-Ioannou joined 23 other UK business leaders, including Marks & Spencer's Stuart Rose and Next's Simon Wolfson, criticising the Brown government's plans to raise National Insurance contribution rates. Born into a poor Greek Cypriot farming family at the village of Pedoulas on September 15, 1927, Haji-Ioannou was the eldest of 12 children. easyJet PLC is one of Europe's largest airlines with a fleet of 323 aircraft carrying over 88.5m passengers annually (2018 figures). He has an elder brother, Polys, and a younger sister, Clelia. Haji-Ioannou conducts business via his private investment vehicle, the easyGroup, which owns the 'easy' brand and licenses it to the various 'easy'-branded ventures, including the airline. Haji-Ioannou was accused and charged in Italy of poor maintenance, manslaughter, extortion and intimidating and attempting to bribe witnesses. Haji-Ioannou started easyJet in 1995 when he was 28 years old, running a service between Luton and Scotland. Later he moved to Athens and he realised that the future of shipping was in international oil trade. Loucas Haji-Ioannou (Greek: Λουκάς Χατζηιωάννου; 15 September 1927 – 17 December 2008) was a Greek-Cypriot shipping entrepreneur. In 2000 easyJet PLC was partially floated on the London Stock Exchange however Stelios remains the largest single shareholder. 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'I wanted to be my own boss. He continues to extend the brand, with mixed success, by creating new ‘easy’ branded ventures in the areas of travel, leisure, telecoms and personal finance. ( Log Out /  (www.stelios.com). He was one of the handful of Greek ship owners whose fleets dominated the global shipping industry for most of the 20th century. ( Log Out /  easyJet PLC, which is one of Europe’s largest low cost airlines by revenues with a fleet of 122 jets and growing, carried 33 million passengers in 2006. He bought his first tanker in 1969 and became a big force in the market, within 10 years. But this has not prevented dozens of companies being threatened by Haji-Ioannou because the huge costs associated with defending a claim in the High Court have been extremely effective in forcing people to hand over their domains. After his secondary education in Athens, he studied Economics at the London School of Economics, gra… He and his family remain its largest single shareholders (34%) in the airline, capitalised at £4.17bn as of 9 May 2019. In an interview with Management Today, he said: 'EasyJet is seen as a huge success, which I'm happy about, because I own the brand. In the 2006 Birthday Honours, Haji-Ioannou received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for "services to entrepreneurship". The son of a Greek Cypriot shipping magnate, Stelios Haji-Ioannou gets the bulk of his fortune from his stake in budget airline easyJet. Haji-Ioannou left the village school when he was 17 and he worked as a salesman until 1950. In April 1991, a Troodos-owned VLCC oil tanker suffered a disaster that resulted in six deaths and spilt about 50,000 tons of crude oil into the sea, becoming arguably the Mediterranean's worst-ever ecological disaster. He continues to extend the brand, with mixed success, by creating new ‘easy’ branded ventures in the areas of travel, leisure, telecoms and personal finance. He was acquitted but the case has dragged on ever since with subsequent appeals and demands for compensation thrown out by the Italian courts.

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