A well-respected member of the travel industry, Hays has built up his Sunderland-based empire of 34 shops, call centres and more than 300 homeworkers over nearly three decades, to a business with a turnover of £300 million. He has also extended the formula to the Hays Independence Group, which has more than 100 members.

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