Houghton Trading Ltd -

Kishor Patel  -  twitter@mrkishorpatel

Kishor is the managing director of Houghton Trading Ltd. An entrepreneur, with a degree in finance, a passion to develop businesses, experience in retailing and a key skill in developing people.

Pradeep Patel (Pat)

Pradeep (Pat), the elder of the two brothers, is operations director at Houghton Trading Ltd, responsible for the company’s IT and logistics side of the business.

Anita Patel
Office Manager

Anita is Houghton Trading Ltd’s office manager.  She oversees everything from staff uniforms, accounts, payroll to finances.  Before joining the company in 2003 she spent her early years working for Coventry Council and after marrying Kishor in 1987 spent 18 years at Dixons, gaining invaluable experience of how businesses in both the public and private sectors operate and joined the family business in 2005.

Donna Cooper
Manager - GO Houghton

Donna has originally come from Hemel Hempstead where she worked in retail, she has worked for Houghton Trading Ltd since 2007 at Nisa Local stores. During her time at Houghton Trading she grew in her role from Sales Assistant to retail supermarket manager and she has worked at various sites for the company, including starting up a store from scratch at Stevenage. She went to work for Marks & Spencer’s Simply Food for a year.

Sue Grant
Store manager, Nisa Local The Glebe 

Ravi Desai
Store manager, Nisa Local Elstree and Borehamwood 

Haresh Thesia
Store manager, Nisa Local Crabtree Lane

Kishan Patel

Kishan born in 1994, studied at Moorlands primary school in Luton, moving to Bedford Modern for secondary education, followed by graduating with a first class hons degree in Financial Economics at Leicester University. Supports Chelsea FC and follows most sports, loves music and movies.