Scottish entrepreneur Sir Tom Farmer, who founded tyre workshop chain Kwik Fit and sold it for £1 billion in 1999, died at ...

The founder of the Kwik Fit garage chain, Sir Tom Farmer, has died at the age of 84. The Edinburgh-born businessman died ...

Sir Tom was born in Leith in 1940 and first opened a tyre business in 1964. He started Kwik Fit in 1971 ... it out across other countries. Arguably, online commerce has sacrificed much of that ...

One of Scotland's most successful businessmen and the founder of the famous Kwik Fit garage chain has died at the age of 84.

The founder of the Kwik Fit garage chain, Sir Tom Farmer, has died at the age of 84. The Edinburgh-born businessman died peacefully at his home in the city on Friday, his family said. He built the ...

Born in Leith, Farmer built the Kwik Fit garage chain in 1971 and turned it into the world’s biggest independent tyre and automotive chain, operating through more than 2300 locations in the UK and ...

Sir Tom started his own tyre business which he sold in 1969 for £450k and retired to America. Upon his return to the business world, Sir Tom founded Kwik Fit in 1971 and built it into one of the ...