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Denise Coates  is an economics graduate from the University of Sheffield. She has been paid about £2.5 billion since 2008.  She was paid a salary of £220.70 million in the year to 26 March 2023.  This was more than a quarter of the company’s wage and benefit costs for staff.  She also gets at least 50% of the £100 million dividend.   She was the highest paid executive in the UK in 2017 with a salary of £217 million.   She set up The Denise Coates Foundation, a registered charity.  It  has made multimillion-pound donations to the local hospital,  Douglas Macmillan Hospice,  Keele university and theatre projects. 

The Coates family is ranked as the 16th richest in the UK with an estimated £8.8 billion fortune, according to the Sunday Times rich list. It ran the Provincial Racing chain of nearly 50 betting shops. Peter Coates, Denise's father,  has set up a separate foundation. He  was also the chairman of  Stoke City F.C. The company has sponsored the club. They play in what is now called the  Bet365 Stadium.

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