Margaret Miles-Bramwell started her first slimming group in Alfreton, Derbyshire, in 1969.
Slimming World's managing director said founder Margaret Miles-Bramwell had "a fierce belief in doing the right thing"
Margaret Miles-Bramwell started the business in 1969 in Alfreton, Derbyshire, next to Somercotes, where the firm today employs 400 staff at its headquarters. Managing director Lisa Salmon said: "Margaret steered her ship in the way she lived her life – with a generous spirit, passionate conviction, a wicked and rebellious sense of humour, and a fierce belief in doing the right thing.Mrs Miles-Bramwell was born in April 1948 and grew up in South Normanton.She set up her first group in a church hall in Alfreton in 1969, to help people with both their weight and with "the sometimes far heavier burden of shame and self-criticism".
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