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  • Sale Sharks tycoon Simon Orange buys steel giant

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    The co-owner of rugby union side Sale Sharks, Simon Orange, has bought the UK’s second-largest steel contractor just a few months after selling his investment business in a deal worth more than £1bn. Self-made millionaire Orange, whose brother Jason was an original member of Take That, has snapped up a majority stake in Greater Manchester-based [...]

    Simon Orange is the co-owner of Sale Sharks.

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