John Hargreaves (born January 1944) is a Monaco-based British businessman, the founder and chairman of the UK out-of-town discount clothing and homeware chain Matalan.
John Hargreaves was born in January 1944 in Everton, the son of a docks labourer, one of eight children who all shared one bedroom in a Liverpool terrace house.
[1][2] Hargreaves left school at 14, went into the retail business when he was 16, and opened the first Matalan store in Preston in 1985.
[3] His daughter Maxine purchased British womenswear retailer Fenn Wright Manson for an undisclosed sum on 28 March 2012.
[citation needed] According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2019 his net worth was estimated at £600 million.