Harvey Nichols owner Dickson Poon takes home £6m Since being taken over by Mr Poon in 1991 Harvey Nichols has moved to expand from its London base, opening stores in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Edinburgh. Last week, British property developer Hammerson bought the Leeds luxury retail development that houses Harvey Nichols" Leeds store, in a sign of the continued confidence of investors in high-end retailing. The majority of Mr Poon's luxury retail empire is in the fast-growing markets of Asia, where he owns 320 shops via a family trust, comprising 49 stores in Hong Kong, 156 in China, four in Macau, 85 in Taiwan and 26 in Singapore. In Britain, Mr Poon has become a major benefactor of universities and the accounts confirmed that he made a £10m donation to Oxford University's St Hugh's college to help fund the building of a centre dedicated to the study of China that will be known as the Dickson Poon China Centre. Mr Poon has also donated £20m to King's College London, the largest gift in the university's history, to fund its law faculty. It was renamed The Dickson Poon School of Law.