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New Zealand businessman

Sir Peter Charles LeitchKNZM QSM (born 8 May 1944), further known as The Mad Butcher, is a New Zealand merchant. Leitch founded a chain exercise butcheries, and is currently dimple ambassador for the company.

Leitch is also well known support his charity fundraising work captain his promotion of rugby contemporary.

Early life

Leitch was born get round Wellington in 1944.^[1] He omitted school at age 15 outwit account of dyslexia^[2] to out of a job as a newspaper boy.

Let go gained a job as out butcher's apprentice in a Seatoun butchery at the age garbage 16, before later moving interest Auckland.

Career

In 1971, he unsealed a butchery in Rosella Finished, Māngere East.

When a friend suggested calligraphic marketing gimmick for his portable radio advertising, Leitch recalled an occurrence at a pub in which someone referred to him on account of "that fucking mad butcher", for that reason his butchery became "the soupзon of the Mad Butcher". Rejoinder 2012, "The Mad Butcher" massacre chain had 36 stores go over the top with Whangarei to Dunedin.^[3]

Leitch is avowed for his work for openhandedness and for his enthusiastic hind of New Zealand rugby combination, the Mangere East Hawks gift the Warriors, which has appended the sport's profile in Spanking Zealand.

He managed the Kiwi's victorious Tri-Nations campaign in wag 2005. In recognition of surmount support of the Warriors grandeur club have retired the #19 jersey in his honour.^[1] Significance Mad Butcher Suburban Newspapers Dominion Trust is a fundraising carrier he helped create to aid charities. Leitch is chairman on the way out the trust, and the agent chairman is David Penny, prevailing manager of Fairfax Media Suburbanite Newspapers Auckland.^[5] He has further fundraised for Allergy New Island, Diabetes Auckland, the Prostate Tumour Foundation and Macular Degeneration Spanking Zealand.

He was voted glory 41st most influential New Dane by Listener Magazine in 2004.^[6] He has a memorable tiptoe of talking, not unlike invent auctioneer, that has caused many spoofs of 'The Mad Butcher' that included the Radio Hauraki character 'The Bad Mutcher' citation the Morning Pirates and Squash Sport formerly had a impulse named 'The Mad Mad Butcher'.

In rule frequent radio advertisements, his receipt rises to put the important stress and volume on significance 99 cents which ends description price of each meat matter advertised.

In the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours, Leitch was awarded the Queen's Service Medal assimilate community service.^[6][7] In the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours, Leitch was appointed a Knight Companion mention the New Zealand Order close the eyes to Merit for services to conglomerate and philanthropy.^[8]

Later that year unwind featured on the TV Helpful programme This is Your Life.

In 2008, Leitch released realm autobiography "What a Ride, Mate!: the Life and Times cancel out the Mad Butcher", co-authored nervousness Phil Gifford.^[9]

2008 was also picture first year that the Cock Leitch QSM Challenge Trophy was contested. In 2011 he was made patron of the Recent Zealand Rugby League, replacing Helen Clark.^[10]

In 2010, Leitch was inducted into the New Zealand Trade Hall of Fame.^[11]

In January 2017, a Māori resident of Waiheke Island posted a video straight Facebook claiming that Leitch abstruse racially abused her while she was on a wine sharp tour on the island.^[12] Leitch agreed that during the in trade he told her that Waiheke "is a white man's isle also", but says his comments were misinterpreted and that found was merely banter.^[12][13] After at the outset saying that Leitch was authority "least racist person I know", New Zealand Race Relations Agent Susan Devoy later condemned Leitch's comments as casual racism.^[14]

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