Touker Suleyman joined the British series Dragon's Den in 2015 and is known for buying Hawes & Curtis.
Suleyman became a Dragon in the programme's thirteenth series. He is a British-Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur whose business interests have included fashion, retail, and manufacturing. His best-known acquisitions include the shirt retailer Hawes & Curtis and the fashion company Ghost.
His investment perspective on the programme is strongly connected with products, supply chains, branding, and retail distribution. These areas are important to many pitches because an attractive product still needs reliable manufacturing and a route to customers.
Hawes & Curtis was founded in 1913, long before Suleyman acquired it. The retailer's history is therefore separate from Suleyman's television debut. Tej Lalvani and Nick Jenkins were also Dragons, but they joined the panel in later or different periods.