[3] Originally known as P E Jones Contractors, the company initially specialised in building houses on small plots of land in Cheshire.
[4] The company started developing properties in Bolton, Lytham, Glasgow and Sterling in the 1980s.
[4] The Emerson Group is now one of the largest privately owned property development companies in the UK.
[6] The company is based in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, and as well as housebuilding, owns Bolton's Middlebrook Park, Oasis Parque, Boavista Golf & Spa Resort[7] and Jardim do Vau among other properties in Algarve, Portugal and Orlando, Florida.
[8] In the 2014 New Year Honours, he received an OBE for services to business in the North West.