Boardroom Stories: Sanjeev Gupta, Liberty Steel
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Danni Hewson talks with Sanjeev Gupta, boss of one of the world's largest steel producers Liberty Steel.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others. |
| 0:05.2 | My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland. |
| 0:11.3 | It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here, |
| 0:16.3 | but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world. |
| 0:19.6 | And because the team is such a diverse |
| 0:21.2 | range of skills and strengths, we have trained journalists, people who love digging through |
| 0:26.0 | archives, we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if |
| 0:31.8 | you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories |
| 0:37.1 | from all around the UK. BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories from all around the UK. |
| 0:40.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:43.7 | Wake Up to Money, Boardroom Stories with Danny Houston. |
| 0:47.6 | Hello and welcome to boardroom stories from Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:51.6 | We've been taking you behind the scenes of all sorts of companies. |
| 0:54.9 | We've been inside a brewery, a shopping centre and even a sex toy factory. Today, though, |
| 1:00.6 | I'm walking up a high street in one of London's most exclusive and expensive areas. The buildings |
| 1:07.7 | are absolutely beautiful. There are gold-tipped railings and beautiful white flowers at the building that I'm just walking past. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm in Mayfair. |
| 1:17.3 | I'm heading for the offices of GFG Liberty House to meet the man described by some as the saviour of British steel. |
| 1:25.3 | Sakiw Gupta. |
| 1:28.3 | Two and a half years after stopping production, |
| 1:31.3 | a Newport Steel company is up and running again. |
| 1:34.3 | Liberty Steel will employ 150 workers. |
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