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In 1992, Forte and Martin Landau opened a City
Technology College in Derby named Landau Forte College. In 2006, they changed to an academy. In 2010, they took a Tamworth High School (Woodhouse Business & Enterprise College) and turned it into Landau Forte Academy Tamworth, but in 2011, when they
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He was also a member of the executive committee of the World Travel & Tourism
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in London for £51.5m. As of April 2013, The Rocco Forte
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that the UK had failed to take advantage of the opportunities presented by Brexit and was considering emigrating to Italy.
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and has previously voted against admittance of women, 'because the
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after the return of the Forte brand name. He bought the
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