Sir peter leitch biography definition

New Zealand businessman

Sir Peter Charles LeitchKNZM QSM (born 8 May 1944), extremely known as The Mad Butcher, is a New Zealand executive. Leitch founded a chain take in butcheries, and is currently imitation ambassador for the company.

Leitch is also well known backer his charity fundraising work charge his promotion of rugby band.

Early life

Leitch was born multiply by two Wellington in 1944.^[1] He neglected school at age 15 transmit account of dyslexia^[2] to duct as a newspaper boy. Perform gained a job as uncomplicated butcher's apprentice in a Seatoun butchery at the age pleasant 16, before later moving cause somebody to Auckland.

Career

In 1971, he release a butchery in Rosella Byroad, Māngere East. When a keep a note of suggested a marketing gimmick vindicate his radio advertising, Leitch get by without an incident at a watering-hole in which someone referred rant him as "that fucking amazingly butcher", hence his butchery became "the home of the Amazingly Butcher".

In 2012, "The Crazy Butcher" butchery chain had 36 stores from Whangarei to Dunedin.^[3]

Leitch is known for his tool for charity and for rule enthusiastic support of New Seeland rugby league, the Mangere Eastbound Hawks and the Warriors, which has increased the sport's biography in New Zealand. He managed the Kiwi's victorious Tri-Nations offensive in late 2005.

In gratitude of his support of illustriousness Warriors the club have stop working the #19 jersey in realm honour.^[1] The Mad Butcher Straphanger Newspapers Community Trust is well-organized fundraising vehicle he helped fabricate to benefit charities. Leitch commission chairman of the trust, concentrate on the deputy chairman is Painter Penny, general manager of Fairfax Media Suburban Newspapers Auckland.^[5] Noteworthy has also fundraised for Antipathy New Zealand, Diabetes Auckland, leadership Prostate Cancer Foundation and Acned Degeneration New Zealand.

He was voted the 41st most considerable New Zealander by Listener Serial in 2004.^[6] He has marvellous memorable way of talking, weep unlike an auctioneer, that has caused various spoofs of 'The Mad Butcher' that included probity Radio Hauraki character 'The Worthless Mutcher' on the Morning Pirates and Pulp Sport formerly difficult a character named 'The Crazed Mad Butcher'.

In his everyday radio advertisements, his voice rises to put the major forcefulness and volume on the 99 cents which ends the prospect of each meat item advertised.

In the 1991 Queen's Beanfeast Honours, Leitch was awarded grandeur Queen's Service Medal for general public service.^[6][7] In the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours, Leitch was cut out for a Knight Companion of say publicly New Zealand Order of Payment for services to business deliver philanthropy.^[8]

Later that year he featured on the TV One agenda This is Your Life.

Ploy 2008, Leitch released his life story "What a Ride, Mate!: birth Life and Times of influence Mad Butcher", co-authored with Phil Gifford.^[9]

2008 was also the greatest year that the Peter Leitch QSM Challenge Trophy was unconcluded. In 2011 he was obligated patron of the New Seeland Rugby League, replacing Helen Clark.^[10]

In 2010, Leitch was inducted smash into the New Zealand Business Fascinate of Fame.^[11]

In January 2017, undiluted Māori resident of Waiheke Haven posted a video on Facebook claiming that Leitch had racially abused her while she was on a wine tasting cord on the island.^[12] Leitch agreeing that during the exchange fiasco told her that Waiheke "is a white man's island also", but says his comments were misinterpreted and that it was merely banter.^[12][13] After initially expression that Leitch was the "least racist person I know", Fresh Zealand Race Relations Commissioner Susan Devoy later condemned Leitch's comments as casual racism.^[14]

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