John Towers (businessman) ground until it finally collapsed with the loss of 6,500 jobs. PVH gave members of management "unreasonably large" payouts, a government-commissioned report found, which were "out of all proportion". Towers awarded himself £8.958m whilst many employees lost their lifetime jobs - leaving with nothing. Nanjing Automobile subsequently brought MG out of administration, but have since moved production to China. John Towers (businessman) John Towers CBE (born 30 March 1948) is an English businessman, who was the owner and managing director of MG Rover Group from 2000 until the company entered administration in 2005. This followed a succession of senior appointments
John Stephenson (judge) them, not only by proceedings for defamation against them but by threats and blackmail". In 1951, Stephenson married Rose Asquith, the younger daughter of Lord Asquith of Bishopstone, a Law Lord, and they had two sons and two daughters, Mary (1952), David Guy (1954), Laura Jane (1958) and Daniel Paul Stephenson (1960). At the time of his death in 1998 his address was given in "Who's Who" as 26 Doneraile Street, London SW6, and he was a member of the Hurlingham Club, the Marylebone Cricket Club, and the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club. John Stephenson (judge) Sir John Frederick Eustace Stephenson