Dragons Den James caan attempts to buy baby

I was quite shocked when i heard that James Caan tried to buy a 40 week old baby while doing charity work in Pakistan. He may be a millionaire dragon but there are some things you just cant buy and a baby who already has a family is one of them.

The village's he had been visiting along with his own daughter Hannah had recently been hit by devastating floods which had wiped out the baby's family home but when James held the baby he said how gorgeous she was and told how his brother lives in Pakistan and desperately wants a baby he then shocked everyone when he offered to give her family £100,000 Rupees to buy the baby and promised she would have the best life possible.

James daughter Hannah was stunned by her father's shock offer and could be seen protesting in the background but James went on to say "We could give this baby the best life she could ever have, so if the family are interested i would dearly love to take the baby and give her to my Brother."

James has since said that he was overcome with emotion and was "not acting rationally".He said that he recognises it was wrong and the baby would be better off staying with her family.

Just who doe's he think he is? this was not some business arrangement in the Den this was a baby who had her own family, a family that had already lost their home and now this man was offering to take their daughter too, Who is James to say that he could give the baby the best life she could have? If the baby has the love of her family then in my opinion that is the best life she could ever have because all the money in the world can not buy love.

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Dragons Den is on Dave or you can catch the new series on BBC2 on Tuesday nights at 9pm, this programme has became very popular, with Entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas for a chance of investment from the Dragons, i love this programme because not only do you see real success stories but you also see the terrible ideas that will never ammount to anything, from people who basicaly thought they were going to get a easy ride and five minutes of TV stardom. There are five regular dragons which are...........

Deborah Meaden who from a early age age knew she wanted her own business, she left school after O-levels and studied at business college and following graduation, she then worked as a sales room model in a fashion house before moving to Italy. At the age of 19, with very little capital she launched her own glass and ceramics import company supplying upmarket stores like Harvey Nichols. Her next business venture was starting up one of the first Stefanels franchises in the country but she soon became dissatisfied with the franchise model, and sold her share to her business partner.

Deborah first appeared on Dragons Den in 2006 and has since agreed investments in 23 separate businesses costing her £1,605,000,00. Several successful businesses in the leisure and retail sector later, she joined her family's business. Starting out on the shop floor, Deborah eventually became Managing Director of Weststar Holidays. In 1999 she went on to acquire the major shareholding in a management buyout, later selling the company in a deal worth £33m whilst retaining a 23% stake. Deborah still retained an active role at Weststar, but began to devote more time to finding good investment opportunities, including those she found on Dragons' Den, which she joined in 2006 at the start of series 3. Have you any idea how much money this business would need to become viable? In August 2007, she sold her remaining stake when Weststar Holidays was sold for £83m. She is now a full time investor with a portfolio which ranges from fashion to software, waste management to market research. Deborah supports a number of charities and is chair of the Childline "Child's Voice Appeal South West". She is also involved with environmental charities and initiatives and has recently accepted a role as an Ambassador for the WWF. Deborah lives in Somerset with husband Paul and a variety of pets.

Duncan Bannatyne had A poverty-stricken childhood steeled Duncan's drive to make his fortune from an early age. After his naval career, which included a spell in military prison, Duncan drifted from job to job ending up in Jersey. It was here that he made the decision to turn his life around. Duncan joined the Den in 1996 and has agreed investments in the Den for £1,617,500,00 in total and has shares in 21 businesses. He began his entrepreneurial life by trading in cars, but it was with an ice cream van purchased for £450 that he changed the course of his life. With "Duncan's Super Ices", he set out to become the King of the 99 and eventually sold the business for £28,000, founding a nursing home business on the proceeds. He sold his nursing home business for £46 million in 1996. During the last 10 years has expanded into health clubs with the Bannatyne's chain to his name, and also owns bars, hotels and property. Bannatyne's is now the largest independent chain of health clubs in the UK. Duncan's latest venture is Bannatyne's Sensory Spa, a chain of luxury health and wellbeing spas. Quoted on The Sunday Times 2009 Rich List as having wealth to the tune of £320m, Duncan holds an OBE and was recently awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) from Glasgow Caledonian University for services to business and charity and an honorary Doctor of Business from the University of Teesside, Over 30 charities have benefited from Duncan's involvement and he has recently launched the Bannatyne Charitable Trust to support worthwhile causes. A Dragon in the Den since the first series, Duncan recently appeared on BBC Two's "Duncan Bannatyne Takes On Tobacco" when he visited Africa to investigate the marketing tactics used by big tobacco companies in Mauritius, Malawi and Nigeria.

James Caan says his father, who worked day and night to establish his leather-trading business when he moved to London from Pakistan in the 60s, is his inspiration to work hard, be successful and give something back. since first appearing in 2007 James has invested in 16 businesses for £1,161,666,67. He left school at 16 and rather than joining the family business decided to go it alone, taking office and retail jobs until he found his forte in recruitment. In 1985, he set up the Alexander Mann Group, one of the UK's leading HR outsourcing companies, and achieved a turnover of £130m before selling it to a private equity firm in 2002. James also co-founded an executive headhunting firm with partner Doug Bougie, which they successfully expanded globally through its Humana International brand, growing to over 147 offices across 30 countries before it was bought by a New York-listed company. A graduate of Harvard Business School's prestigious Advanced Management Programme, in 2003 Caan was named PricewaterhouseCoopers' Entrepreneur of the Year and was recently a Resident Entrepreneur Mentor for MBA students at London Business School. In 2006, the James Caan Foundation was set up to help children in both the western and developing world. James supports the NSPCC's full stop campaign as well as being involved in a number of educational charities, helping deprived children in the UK and India to get a good education. James is also proud to have built schools in his native Lahore, Pakistan where local children can attend lessons for free. He lives in London with his wife and enjoys regularly meeting up with his two grown-up daughters.

Peter Jones entrepreneurial journey started early when, at the age of 16, he founded a tennis academy. His career then took a technical curve, setting up a computer business and later a computer support company. Peter then experienced a run of bad luck in the form of a "fun if costly mistake" investing in a restaurant and losing his house and cars when his computer business closed. Peter first appeared in 2005 and has agreed investments in 32 separate businesses totalling £2,024,166,67. At the age of 28, Peter joined corporate giant Siemens Nixdorf and ran its computer business in the UK. and In 1998 he founded Phones International Group, a telecommunications firm that now generates revenues in excess of £200m. His business interests range from telecoms, leisure, publishing to TV and media. Peter has won many national awards, including Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 Now in his early forties, Peter is considered to be one of the UK's leading young businessmen. The Peter Jones Foundation was established in 2005, to offer funding and support to underprivileged children in the UK. Through the foundation Peter has also set up the National Enterprise Academy, working with the government's New Enterprise Scheme to shift the boardroom to the classroom. The course for 16 - 19 year old entrepreneurs will open its doors in September 2009. In 2008 a national newspaper challenged Peter to sit an A level business studies exam which he passed with flying colours, gaining an A grade without formally studying the course material. Peter was awarded a CBE in the 2009 New Years Honours List for services to business, entrepreneurship and young people.

Theo Paphitis was Born in Cyprus, his family emigrated to Britain in the 1960s and Theo showed his business skills at the tender age of 15 when he was put in charge of his North London school's tuck shop, achieving notable success. Theo has agreed investments in the Den in 31 businesses that total £2,171,666,67 since joining the show in 2005. His formal working career started as a junior clerk (assistant to the tea boy) with a Lloyds of London broker before moving into retail at the age of 18. He then moved into property and corporate finance, setting up his own company aged just 23. He was Chairman of Millwall FC for eight years, taking the club out of administration and into the Championship and to the FA Cup final against Manchester United and then into Europe for the first time in their history. He has also revived the fortunes of notable retail brands such as Ryman, La Senza Lingerie (UK), Contessa Lingerie, Partners the Stationers and Stationery Box. He sold his interest in La Senza and Contessa in 2006 and now retains a minority shareholding. In 2008, he combined the stationery businesses to launch a new chain, Ryman Stationery, where he is now Chairman. Another notable venture is Red Letter Days, the company he salvaged out of administration with fellow Dragon, Peter Jones.Theo’s life story, Enter the Dragon, gives an insight into the thoughts and aspirations of one of the UK’s most popular entrepreneurs.Through his appearances on Dragons' Den, Theo has advised many young entrepreneurs and invested in several innovative businesses and brands. The Paphitis Charitable Trust distributes all of his fees from TV appearances, speeches and his book to causes close to his heart and charities associated with children. In early 2009 Theo was appointed patron for Skillsmart Retail, the Sector Skills Council for Retail, which is committed to driving up skills levels in the industry. His special areas of responsibility are as the Retail Apprentices' Champion and for the new National Skills Academy for Retail. In summer 2009 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Middlesex. Theo lives in Surrey with his wife Debbie. They have five children and three grandchildren.

Some Entrepreneurs have made nothing from being on the show but others have made a fortune such as, Alistair Turner and Anthony Coates-Smith, both 31, are the very first entrepreneurs to appear on BBC's Dragons' Den to become millionaires, Their business Igloo Thermo Logistics, was valued at some £4m, only a matter of months after 'dragons' Richard Farleigh and Duncan Bannatyne gave them a £160,000 cash injection for a 22.5% stake. Their business delivers chilled and frozen foods for the likes of Marks & Spencer and pharmaceutical firms and right now they are in the middle of negotiating some very big contracts. They have opened a new centre in Leeds and are significantly expanding their original Watford base.

inventor Andrew Harsley has had the last laugh after a £36m deal has made him the biggest success story yet from TV show Dragons' Den.

Viewers of the BBC2 programme watched Mr Harsley secure a £150,000 investment for the 'Rapstrap', a reusable polyurethane band that can tie up bin bags, cables, plants and saplings. Now, one of the world's leading plastics distributors has ordered 1bn of the plastic straps, which have been billed as the 'next generation cable tie'. Over the next three years, the deal will net £36m for Mr Harsley and Dragons James Caan and Duncan Bannatyne, who made a joint bid for 50% of his firm. The 35-year-old, from Grantham in Lincolnshire, said: 'I am over the moon. This has changed my life. 'When I first came up with the idea, I could not believe someone else hadn't thought of it. There's a lot of waste with the nylon cable tie. The Rapstrap does the same job but is four times more effective in terms of cost and wastage. 'We are using as many nylon cable ties as we are carrier bags in the UK, so that is a huge amount of plastic going into landfill each year. 'It is not a sexy product but it taps into the environmental issue, which a lot of big companies are taking seriously.' Although Mr Harsley first came up with the idea when he was a teenager putting out the rubbish, it was only after university that he began seriously to research and develop the Rapstrap. Mr Harsley, who survives on just a few hundred pounds each month, has lived with his parents Gillian and John in their £110,000 semidetached house in Grantham for the past 14 years. He said: 'My personal life - marriage and children - has suffered because I put all my energy into this. Everyone has been supportive but it has taken a frustratingly long time to get things off the ground.' However, the entrepreneur has no plans to treat himself with his new fortune. 'I'm not going to spend it on cars or anything,' he added. 'I just want to build up the business.' Mr Caan said last night that the Rapstrap had the potential to be as successful as 'Cat's Eyes'. 'I always find the simplest ideas tend to do very well,' he added. 'It's a simple one but the point is no one else had come up with it.'

Levi Roots, 50, is a musician who won support on BBC's Dragons' Den, persuading Peter Jones and Richard Farleigh to invest £50,000 in his Reggae Reggae Sauce which is now on sale in hundreds of supermarkets. He has seven children but lives alone in Brixton. he said his sauce is a secret family recipe handed down from one generation to another. I learned it from my grandmother when I was living in Jamaica. Although I've been a musician since I was in my 20s, I have made and sold Reggae Reggae Sauce at Brixton market and Notting Hill Carnival for years as a support to my income. He says Until the age of 12 I lived in Jamaica and we didn't have any money. You don't worry about it in Jamaica – you just live and whatever you have gets spent. That all changed when my family came over to Britain and I began to learn respect for money. Some people treat money too casually, even some rich people tell you money isn't the most important thing, but to me money is everything because I know you need it. In London we lived in a five-bedroom house in Tulse Hill, a large family with six kids. My dad had a job as a rat-catcher and I thought that was brilliant. Other kids at school said their dads were sheet-metal workers or lorry drivers but, to me, my dad was like Superman; he couldn't have been in a better profession My mother always brought me up to believe if you give you will receive. People tell me I should have asked for more money on Dragons' Den, but I made my choice and I wanted to be fair. I gave the proceeds from my Reggae Reggae single to charity because I felt that if I hadn't had the chance to go on TV and sing it to 3m people I wouldn't even be here now. I went on with the intention of getting £50,000 for a 20 per cent stake in my business. Of course, I was really pitching my sauce to the British audience and whatever they offered I would have accepted. It was really all about getting the act in front of people, Of course – it has meant the world for me. Thanks to that investment, my life has changed big time. I've made quite a lot of money since then from speaking engagements – I can get around £1,500 from a single event – and that's been a very profitable source of income. I've since opened a restaurant and I took my mother to Jamaica the other day to say goodbye to her brother who had died. My kids feel proud, my family is happier and that's one of the most fantastic things. The other day I was on a flight and I heard my name come over the loudspeaker – "Levi Roots, will you please put your hand up". Everyone turned round to watch as they ushered me into first class. I tried for years to build a successful music career but now a sauce has made me famous. Levi says he has never been bankrupt and has always managed to see things through, even when he was very poor. Levi says On the day we filmed Dragons' Den I was down to my last £20. I gave £10 to the taxi driver who dropped me off at the studios. I had been working as a salesman in a builders' merchants, selling plumbing equipment, but I gave that up because I wanted to develop my business. I was taking a risk – I didn't know what was going to happen, but something was telling me to follow my dreams. I started exhibiting my sauce at trade exhibitions and luckily I was spotted by the BBC at the World Food Market exhibition in Docklands. Then, after I succeeded on Dragons' Den, Peter Jones got involved and made a call to Justin King, chief executive of Sainsbury's. The TV programme went out in February and they decided to move fast, so we had a factory produce 50,000 litres and got it on the shelves inside three weeks. Sainsbury's had the exclusive for six months and every time I launch a new flavour they get it first.

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