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(8 Jan '08) Celebrity chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay has been named the most wanted business name of 2007 by Celebrities Worldwide, the online search directory feed of celebrity contacts to the media and entertainment industries.  

Celebrities Worldwide reports over 50,000 daily website hits and its Top 10 "Most Wanted" Business Names of 2007 have been compiled from
searches on the celebrity organisation's list of over 21,000 celebrities
worldwide.

The industry's business searches raised some interesting results. "The UK's two best known chefs Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver are also very shrewd businessmen and occupy the top two places ahead of music money making machine Simon Cowell" said Richard Brecker, joint managing director of Celebrities Worldwide and partner celebrity booking agency Upfront.

The popularity of BBC television series "Dragons' Den" has thrust Duncan
Bannatyne and his fellow investors Peter Jones, Theo Paphitis and Deborah Meaden into the top ten.  

Top 10 Business Names                 

1. Gordon Ramsay OBE  Worth : est £60m (Media Guardian)

2. Jamie Oliver MBE  Worth: est £58 m( The Independent '06)

 3. Simon Cowell Worth : est £100m (Sunday Times Rich List)

4. Sir Richard Branson : est £3,100m  (Sunday Times)

5. Sir Alan Sugar : est £830m (Sunday Times)

6. Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber : est £750m (Sunday Times)

7. Duncan Bannatyne OBE : est £130m (newbusiness.co.uk )

8. Peter Jones : est £180m 

 9. Theo Paphitis : est £125m (Sunday Times) 

10.Deborah Meaden :  Reported to have sold her family's holiday park business, Weststar Holidays, as its MD, in a deal worth £33 million, while retaining a 23% stake.

RK