Banking £17 million from the sale in 1996 of a business he had created in just 33 months did not send Ron Hamilton, then 54, onto the golf course.
Despite selling his patented process for making throw-away contact lenses and his right to start again for at least five years, the Lanarkshire-born engineer was determined to create a brand new business close to home.
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