Andrew Higginson (businessman)

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Andrew Higginson
Born
Andrew Thomas Higginson

10 July 1957
OccupationBusiness executive

Andrew Thomas Higginson (born 10 July 1957 [1] ) is a British business executive. As of 2017, he was the Chairman of Morrisons, [2] Non-Executive Director of Woolworths in South Africa, [3] Chairman of N Brown Group [4] and Chairman of ITC Luxury Travel Group, and Chairman of corporate finance firm Clearwater International. [5]

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Early life

Higginson was educated at Bury Grammar School. He studied town planning at Birmingham Polytechnic. [6]

Career

Higginson started his career at Unilever and Guinness Brewing [7] before moving into retail in 1990. He was Group Finance Director of Laura Ashley Holdings [7] and The Burton Group [7] before joining Tesco in 1997. At Tesco he was an executive director for 15 years, including finance and strategy director and Chief Executive of retailing services. [7]

In 2012 he was appointed Non-Executive Chairman at Poundland [4] and in the same year became Non-Executive Chairman at McCurrach. [2] He was SID at BskyB until 2014. [2] Higginson is currently Non-Executive Chairman at N Brown [4] and was appointed Chairman of Wm Morrison in 2015, replacing Sir Ian Gibson. [4] [7]

Private equity firm Warburg Pincus [8] appointed Higginson as a senior advisor to the firm in 2015. In 2016 Higginson was appointed as a senior advisor to Shore Capital Markets. [3]

He was an Independent Non-Executive director of the Rugby Football Union from 2011 to 2016. [9]

In September 2018, Higginson was appointed president of IGD. [10] In October, Higginson was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of online parking portal YourParkingSpace. [11]

In July 2022, Higginson was appointed as the new chairman of JD Sports. [12]

Personal life

His wife June (from whom he is separated) is an age-group national triathlete. [13] Together they have three children. [14] He lives in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, with his second wife and two stepsons. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Armitage, Jim (10 October 2021). "Morrisons chair Andy Higginson: I got the right price for shareholders". The Sunday Times.
  2. 1 2 3 "Andrew Higginson swaps Poundland for Wm Morrison". www.ft.com.
  3. 1 2 "Andrew Higginson joins Shore Capital Markets as adviser".
  4. 1 2 3 4 Neville, Simon (11 July 2012). "Poundland appoints former Tesco boss as chairman" – via The Guardian.
  5. ↑ Begum, Shelina (31 August 2016). "NorthEdge Capital backs luxury travel firm MBO". Manchester Evening News.
  6. ↑ Fletcher, Richard (19 January 2024). "'There is a sort of masochistic thing about being in business. I'm loving it'" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 "Morrison's boss to give talk at event".
  8. ↑ KCS, Express (22 February 2015). "Morrisons chairman Andrew Higginson adds Warburg Pincus to CV". CityAM.
  9. ↑ "It will take me five years to put Morrisons back to rights". Archived from the original on 30 January 2015.
  10. ↑ Quinn2018-09-26T15:24:00+01:00, Ian. "Morrisons chairman Andrew Higginson appointed IGD president". The Grocer. Retrieved 8 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ "Morrisons Chairman joins yourparkingspace.co.uk board | Business Leader News". Business Leader. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  12. ↑ Nazir, Sahar (8 July 2022). "JD Sports hires ex-Morrisons chair Andy Higginson". Retail Gazette. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  13. ↑ "Higginson aims to lead Poundland growth". www.ft.com.
  14. ↑ "Springsteen fan Andy Higginson born to run a bit of Tesco". The Telegraph. 28 March 2009.
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