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|spouse = Dr Talib Warsi
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'''Perween Warsi''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (born 10 August 1956),<ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthday's today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2011-8-10.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110810040003/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2011-8-10.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 10 August 2011 |newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=16 June 2014|date=10 August 2011|quote=Ms Perween Warsi, Founder and CEO, S&A Foods Ltd, 55 }}</ref> Founder and Chief Executive, S&A Foods until 2015. She is now a business development consultant to the food industry with [[Succeda]].

==Biography==
Warsi was born in [[Muzaffarpur]] India in 1956 and moved to the United Kingdom in 1975.<ref name="curryqueen">{{cite news |first=Emma |last=Clark |title=UK curry queen has empire in her sights |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2221003.stm |work=BBC News Online |date=2002-09-19 }}</ref>

She began her business making ethnic [[finger food]]s from her kitchen. In 1986, after being appalled by the quality of a supermarket-purchased [[samosa]], she founded S&A foods, winning her first major contract to supply chilled and frozen dishes to [[Asda]] and [[Morrisons]] stores, having secured the contract via [[blind tasting]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Michelle |last=Rosenberg |title=Truly inspired woman: Perween Warsi |url=http://www.growingbusiness.co.uk/06959143453611314319/truly-inspired-woman-perween-warsi.html |work=Growing Business |date=February 2008 |access-date=18 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828034036/http://www.growingbusiness.co.uk/06959143453611314319/truly-inspired-woman-perween-warsi.html |archive-date=28 August 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1987, S&A Foods was acquired by the Hughes Food Group (which would ultimately go into receivership in 1990), with the resulting investment injection allowing them to open the first S&A Foods factory, in [[Derby]], creating over 100 jobs for the area.<ref>[http://www.growingbusiness.co.uk/truly-inspired-woman-perween-warsi.html Growing Business Success Stories - S & A Foods: Perween Warsi] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415174723/http://www.growingbusiness.co.uk/truly-inspired-woman-perween-warsi.html |date=2012-04-15 }}</ref> In 1996 a new, larger bespoke factory was built next to the original site.

S&A Foods was reported in 2005 to be producing two million meals a week, employing over 1300 people, and had an annual turnover in the region of £100 million.<ref>http://www.nriinternet.com/NRIrestaurants/UK/Perween%20warsi/</ref> Warsi was named in the same year by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in its First Women Awards as one of Britain's 10 most remarkable women.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2917100/Woman-who-helped-to-invent-Viagra-is-honoured-by-CBI.html The Daily Telegraph]</ref>

In 2015 her company S&A foods based in [[Derby]] went into [[Administration (law)|administration]] due to losing a contract with [[ASDA]], causing all 300 staff members at the company to be made redundant.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-34649363 S&A Foods in Derby goes into administration.]</ref>

Since 2016, she has been working as a consultant to owner managed businesses in the food sector through her company Succeda.<ref>http://succeda.co.uk/</ref> She is also a member of Derby City Council's Renaissance Board, which promotes economic development in the area.<ref>https://www.derbyrenaissanceboard.co.uk/#/who-are-the-members/</ref>

[[Mike Coupe]], chief executive of J Sainsbury, described Warsi in 2017 as a self-made CEO and leader who has been "an influential driving force in the food industry. Her visionary approach introduced innovation in the fresh chilled, frozen and longer life segments, which has delivered significant change and progress to quality in the UK market."<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/perween-warsi-a2177194/</ref>

==Awards and nominations==
In January 2013, Warsi was nominated for the Businesswoman of the Year award at the [[British Muslim Awards]].<ref name="asianimage">{{cite news |url=http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/10197507.Winners_honoured_at_British_Muslim_Awards/|title=Winners honoured at British Muslim Awards|publisher=Asian Image|date=31 January 2013|access-date=1 November 2015}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Perween and Talib Warsi married in 1972. The couple have two sons, Sadiq and Abid, after whom S&A Foods was named. Perween is a shia.<ref name="curryqueen"/>

==Awards==
*1996: Woman Entrepreneur of the World Award
*1997: MBE, New Year's Honours list
*2002: CBE, Queen's Jubilee Honours list

==References==
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