Anna Scholz Queen of Shops in 2008 saw retail guru Mary Portas introduce a failing fashion store in Ascot to Anna and her label in the hope of saving the business and educating the owner in the needs of her plus size customers. After the programme aired the brand saw a 72% increase in sales of the range in Harrods, as well as 35 new retail outlets looking to stock her pieces. The feature even caused annascholz.com to crash due to internet sales and is often referred to as one of the most influential features for the brand. Having been born in
Krishnan Guru-Murthy Krishnan Guru-Murthy Krishnan Guru-Murthy (born 5 April 1970) is a British journalist on Channel 4. He presents the "Channel 4 News" and the foreign affairs documentary series "Unreported World". Guru-Murthy's father, a consultant radiologist, worked in Blackburn and Burnley; the family lived at West Bradford, Lancashire, before moving to a 'gothic folly' with four acres of land in a village outside Burnley. Guru-Murthy was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Blackburn, which was independent at the time but is now a Free School, followed by Hertford College at the University of Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics.