This businessman is admired for his ability to manage a number of business interests.

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【题干关键词】admired，manage a number of business interests
【对应信息点】impressed，chairman of two other large companies
题干意为“该企业家因能够同时掌管多个企业而受人敬佩”对应原文C段中“Everyone is impressed at how he also finds the time to be chairman of two other large companies．”。题干中admired对应原文中的impressed；题干中的manage a number of business interests对应原文中的be chairman of two other large companies。

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Lucy Robertson started working at a take-away food business to supplement her income during her student days at Edinburgh University. Several years later she had bought the business and now, 17 years on, she owns Grapevine Caterers, probably Scotland's leading independent caterers, with a turnover of almost ε6m.
She had never planned to own a business, and had certainly never considered a career in catering. (0)...G… However, her unplanned career began in 1985, when she returned to Edinburgh and discovered that the takeaway she had worked in was up for sale. On impulse, she bought it, but admits that at the time she knew nothing about catering. (8).....It was a difficult time, but essential in terms of gaining the experience she needed. The late 1980s boom was good for business, with large numbers of office workers wanting takeaway food for their lunches. (9)..... "At one point there were 26 food outlets within a 5-kilometre radius," Robertson recalls, as the economy changed and the once packed office blocks started to become vacant, it became clear that Robertson would need to diversify. (10)......It changed the direction of the company for good.
As Robertson began to win catering contracts, she decided that the company would have to move to larger premises. In 1994, the move was made when she bought another catering business that already had a number of profitable contracts for boardroom lunches.
Meanwhile, Robertson's main competitor, the oldest catering company in Edinburgh, was causing her some anxiety. "Customer loyally is not to be underestimated," she warns. But Robertson is not someone who is easily put off. (11)...... Partly as a result of this, turnover doubled, and having outgrown another site, Robertson bought a city-centre location for the group's headquarters.
By now, Grapevine's main competitor was a new catering company called Towngates. Although Robertson tried to raise enough money to buy Towngates, she did not succeed. Then luck intervened and Towngates went bankrupt. (12)......Many accepted and the company's turnover went from ε700,000 to ε1.5 million almost overnight.
However, the company's growth was not as smooth as it sounds in retrospect. Robertson admits, "We were close to the edge during the growth period. Like many under-capitalized companies trying to grow, it might easily have collapsed." But that, she feels, is the challenge of developing your own business.
A．But there are plenty of similar contracts to be won in the east of Scotland before   Robertson turns her attention elsewhere.
B．Her way round this particular problem was to recruit the catering manager of the rival company.
C．But this demand was short-lived, and before long, increasing competition made it harder to make a profit.
D．"It was a dramatic learning curve and very small amounts of money were earned at first," says Robertson.
E．She decided that the solution, since many companies required working lunches for   meetings with clients, was to prepare and deliver meals to business premises.
F．On hearing this, Robertson immediately contacted all of their clients and offered the   services of Grapevine Caterers.
G．Instead, she studied accountancy after leaving university, and a steady if unspectacular professional path seemed set.

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