Anthony Langley

Tony Langley owns Nottinghamshire, UK-based engineering and manufacturing giant Langley Holdings.He started the business in 1975, at age 20, with what was left of his grandfather's failed engineering firm.He launched Langley Mining, which sold equipment to the UK coal industry and eventually moved into steel, oil and gas customers as well.In 2000 he further diversified, buying Clarke Chapman, a crane manufacturer, from Rolls Royce.Today Langley Holdings employs about 4,500 people across more than 80 subsidiaries and has annual revenues of around $1.1 billion.