John Fenty
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Cllr. John S. Fenty |
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| Councillor | |
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In office 2008–2012 |
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| Born | 10 December 1961 Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, UK |
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 UK
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| Political party | Conservative |
| Authority | North East Lincolnshire Council |
| Ward | Humberston & New Waltham |
John Shelton Fenty (born 10 December 1961, Grimsby, Lincolnshire) is the majority shareholder and de facto chairman of Grimsby Town Football Club. He is also a Conservative councillor for the Humberston and New Waltham ward of North East Lincolnshire Council.
At the age of 18 in 1980 he took over a failed Haulage business that his father had started. Though he made his wealth through his development from scratch, a food processing company called Five Star Fish Ltd, a company that achieved market dominance in the food service sector and won many accolades for excellence. By the time the business was sold, it employed over 280 people and was highly respected in the business. It sold in April 2004 for £20 million to the Real Good Food Company. He finally stood down as Chairman at the start of 2007 and finally left the company in August 2007 after 27 years at the helm.
In January 2011, Fenty became the chairman and finance director of Topcon Construction Limited, having previously been a client of Topcon when it built a new cold store facility built for his fish processing business at Five Star Fish.
Since April 2013, Fenty is the business mentor and commercial adviser to IT support company E-Tech Solutions based in Grimsby.
In May 2008 Fenty was elected as a Conservative Party councillor for the Humberston and New Waltham ward of North East Lincolnshire Council.
In the late 1990s he was co-opted onto the board of Grimsby Town FC after building up £4,295 of shares in the club and another £40,000 of shares through the Five Star Fish Employee Benefit Trust. He subsequently sold all of these shares, except for £500 of his personal shares, to Michael Rouse following the collapse of ITV Digital at the end of the 2001–02 season. But, by the end of the 2002–03 season Fenty had had a change of heart and took his shareholding to £62,289 of the club equating to 26.3% of the company, buying out long term major shareholder Dudley Ramsden's interest in the club in the process.
Following the sale of Five Star Fish in April 2004, Fenty became chairman of Grimsby Town FC on 29 July 2004 with Peter Furneaux switching roles with Fenty and becoming Vice Chairman.
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