Zameer Choudrey, Baron Choudrey

During the mid 1990s he was assigned the task of business diversification by the board of directors and in 1995 he was appointed chief executive of Bestway Cement.

[14] In July 2014 under his[15][16] leadership Bestway Group acquired the Co-op's pharmacy business for £620 million[17] or US$1.06 billion.

[25][26] Between March 2010 and April 2019, Choudrey served as a trustee of GroceryAid [27] - the trade industry's flagship charity.

In April 2013 Choudrey was invited by the British Asian Trust to join their UK Advisory Council.

[47][48] In June 2020, during the House of Lords debate - the economic lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures necessary to repair the UK economy - he asked if the Government intended to expand the life insurance scheme to the SME sector, and specifically to BAME individuals employed in the SME sector who have been defined as key workers but are not covered by the current scheme.

[49] In May 2021 - whilst participating in the debate on Her Majesty the Queen's Speech, he highlighted the issues being faced by community pharmacists.

[51] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to the wholesale industry and charity.