article_snippet.sent: Jack Dellal was the son of immigrants from Baghdad, and Jack Dellal started Jack Dellal career as a humbile textile dealer in Jack Dellal home city of Manchester.
article_snippet.sent: Jack Dellal became a multi-millionaire after starting a small banking business called Dalton Barton, which Jack Dellal sold to the bank Keyser Ullmann in 1972 for £58million - more than £700million in today's money.
article_snippet.sent: Jack Dellal used the proceeds of the deal to set up Allied Commercial Holdings, which Jack Dellal used as a vehicle for property dealings for the rest of Jack Dellal life.
article_snippet.sent: In 1989, Jack Dellal made a vast profit from the purchase of Bush House on the Strand in central London, which was the headquarters of the BBC World Service.
article_snippet.sent: Allied Commercial bought the building for £55million in 1987, and sold the building on to Japanese firm Kato Kagaku for £130million just two years later.
article_snippet.sent: Jack Dellal final big deal came with the sale of the Art Deco Shell-Mex House, overlooking the Thames, which raked in a £150million profit when the building changed hands in 2007.