Sir Alan Michael Sugar (born the March 24th 1947) is a British business man with a fortune estimated at 700 million Sterling pounds. It is especially known to have created the company Amstrad (contraction of “ has lan M ichael S ugar TRAD ing”) in 1968.

It left the school at the 16 years age and founded the company of electronics and data processing Amstrad. It was one of the owners of the football club Tottenham Hotspur F.C. It is one of the givers of the Workers party.

In 2005, it followed Donald Trump in his adaptation for BBC in the American version of The Apprentice .

It created a French subsidiary company in 1982. In 1984, it launched out in family microprocessing with CPC 464: success was immediate because of low sound price.

In 1985, it repeated with the PCW8256, which made obsolete all the typewriters. It however made an error: the Diskette S 3" beginnings, with the incompatible format.

In November 1986, it launched the compatible PC 1512, one of very first PC at low prices, and repurchased Sinclair in May 1986. But the portables presented in 1988 were a failure.

In 2007 for approximately 12 weeks, it presents each Wednesday evening of 9:00 has 10:00, English hours, THE APPRENTICE (the apprentice (E)) on chain BBC. The candidates clash each week in group of two teams in tests or they must show their talent of businessman. At the end of each emission, one of the two teams gains, a candidate of the losing team will be as he says it FIRED what wants to say transfered. With final, more than two candidates: a woman of the name of Christina and a boy of the name of Simon. He will gain finally the sum of 100.000 pounds sterling as well as a place in the company of Alan Sugar.

Amstrad sells today material Hi-fi and parabolic aerials.

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• http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0021859.html
• http://www.biogs.com/famous/sugar.html
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/