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You should read the article "The differemce dividend - Why immigration is vital to innovation" by Charles Leadbeater on the NESTA website.
http://www.nesta.org.uk/the-diff…
"Consider these greats of UK industry. Triumph, the classic car company, which made cars with names like Stag and Spitfi re, was founded by Siegfried Bettman, born in Nuremburg in 1862.
ICI was created by Brunner, a Swiss and Mond, a German. GEC was founded by two Bavarians. Jacob Schweppes started making his fi zzy tonics at a factory in Drury Lane in 1792.
Belfast is synonymous with the Harland and Wolff shipyard which was founded by Germans. Thousands of weddings are kitted out by Moss Bros, founded by immigrant Isaac Moses and his brother.
Shami Ahmed (the founder of Joe Bloggs jeans) arrived in Burnley at the age of two.Gulan Kaderbhoy Noon, the inventor of the Bombay Mix, arrived in the UK from Rajasthan in 1969 and went on to make Noon products one of the major suppliers of ready-to-cook Indian food.
Hotel chains like Stakis (Cypriot) and Forte (Italian) were created by immigrant families.
Immigrants have also left their mark on the creative and cultural industries. Madame Tussauds, one of London’s greatest tourist attractions, was started by Marie Grosholtz, a refugee from the French Revolution. Granada was created by Sydney Bernstein, in memory of a holiday in Spain, and ITV was shaped by the Winogradsky brothers from Odessa, better known as Leslie and Lew Grade. Even Audrey Hepburn, the epitome of English chic, was half-Dutch. British theatre and fi lm is a roll call of immigrant
creativity."