My Big Decision: Luke Johnson on taking over Pizza Express
Monday, December 06, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
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Like many serial entrepreneurs, Luke Johnson believes in getting off your behind, facing down the risks and rising to a challenge. Never more so than in 1992, when he was living on an overdraft in order to help finance a reverse takeover of Pizza Express. It was a transformational moment, which he relives here as the latest subject of Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision series.
