From: mig73allenford2002@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   Victor Jules Barnett, who died 20 September, 2024, aged 91, was a   
   British-American businessman, former executive chairman of Burberry, and   
   member of the wealthy Wolfson family.   
      
   Victor Jules Barnett was born in London, in 1933 to Esmond Barnett   
   (1901-1934), of London, and Edith Wolfson (1902-1997), sister of Sir   
   Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet (1897-1991).   
      
   His father died young, leaving Barnett to be raised by his mother and   
   her siblings, among them Sir Isaac Wolfson, Bt. Moving to New York City   
   after World War II, Barnett graduated from the Horace Mann School and   
   with a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School of   
   Business at the University of Pennsylvania.   
      
   Barnett began his career managing what was then the fledgling American   
   operation of Burberry, a subsidiary of his family's retail conglomerate   
   Great Universal Stores (GUS). He joined Revlon, Inc. in 1961, serving as   
   executive vice president under Charles Revson until 1976. Barnett then   
   returned to help manage the family business, GUS, joining his cousins   
   Leonard (1927-2010), the life peer as Baron Wolfson, and David Wolfson   
   (1935-2021), the life peer as Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, on the   
   group's board of directors and executive committee. As head of GUS in   
   North America, Barnett led the acquisition and growth of credit agency   
   Experian in 1996.   
      
   In 1997, he became executive chairman of Burberry to reinvigorate the   
   house's neglected management. At Burberry, Barnett led a reorganization   
   of the company, hiring Rose Marie Bravo as chief executive,   
   renegotiating deals with Burberry's Japanese licensees, acquiring their   
   licensee in Spain, and driving major real estate purchases including its   
   flagship stores on New Bond Street and East 57th Street. Over Barnett's   
   tenure Burberry's operating profits more than quadrupled and the brand   
   became recognized as a global luxury fashion house. In January 2001,   
   Burberry started to look for a replacement for Barnett. In July 2001,   
   Barnett stepped down as chairman of Burberry.   
      
   The family took Burberry public in 2002, and demerged GUS into Home   
   Retail Group and Experian in 2006. Following his retirement from GUS and   
   Burberry, Barnett bought pharmaceutical company Shaklee with his younger   
   son Roger and joined the board of Grey Global Group.   
      
   Barnett was married to Helaine M. Barnett, a prominent legal aid   
   attorney and former president of the Legal Services Corporation. They   
   had two sons, Craig Edward (born 1962), an investment banker, and Roger   
   Lawrence (born 1964), CEO of Shaklee.   
      
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