Gordon Gibb

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Gordon Gibb is the CEO of Flamingo Land Ltd and former chairman of Bradford City Football Club.

[edit] Flamingo Land Ltd

Flamingo Land Ltd is the operating company of Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo and its sister park Pleasure Island Family Theme Park. The company began when Robert Gibb, a director of Scotia Leisure, who owned Flamingo Park, purchased the small attraction from the company to develop it under his sole direction. Robert Gibb died in a car accident in 1995, and his son, Gordon Gibb, 18 years old at the time, became general manager and later chief executive of the company owned by the Gibb family. Under Gordon the main attraction, Flamingo Land, has developed rapidly and is now the third most popular theme park in the UK.[citation needed]

[edit] Bradford City

Gibb joined Bradford City in August 2002, taking over as chairman from Geoffrey Richmond with Julian Rhodes after the club had gone into administration.[1] He resigned as chairman in January 2004,[2] handing over to Rhodes, but his pension fund owns the club's Valley Parade ground.[3]

He formerly represented Scotland Colts at Rugby Union, having being born in the west of Scotland, and is a keen amateur boxer with Westway ABC.[citation needed]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Bradford to play on", BBC Sport, 6 August 2002. Retrieved on 2008-02-11. 
  2. ^ "Gibb quits Bradford City", BBC Sport, 9 January 2004. Retrieved on 2008-02-11. 
  3. ^ "Gibb has clear conscience", BBC Sport, 30 June 2004. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.