Jacqueline Gold

Jacqueline Gold (Ann Summers)

Jacqueline Gold joined Ann Summers, then just comprising two
sex shops, as an office junior mid-way through her A Level year. She hit upon the idea of selling sexy lingerie and sex toys at private parties because she realised that many women did not want to be seen in the shops and, in so doing, transformed the business into a multi-million pound concern, with a sales force of 7,500 women as party organisers. Jacqueline Gold has been voted Britain's ‘most powerful businesswoman' in a number of polls by publications, including Cosmopolitan, Woman and the Daily Mail.