Malcolm Healey

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Malcolm Healey
Born
Malcolm Stanley Healey

June 1944 (age 80)
Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England
Children3
Relatives Eddie Healey (brother)

Malcolm Stanley Healey (born June 1944) is a British entrepreneur. [1]

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Early life

He and his brother, Eddie were born in Kingston upon Hull. [2]

Career

Healey began his career in his family's paint company. [3]

In 1982 MFI Group and Healey's company, Humber Kitchens, [4] bought Hygena a kitchen and furniture retail company, from Norcros who were looking to dissolve the company and sell the Hygena name. MFI took full control of Hygena in 1987, buying Healey out for £200 million. [5]

Healey then moved to the US, where he established kitchen manufacturing company Mill's Pride, which he later sold for £800 million before moving back to the UK. During the 1990s, Healey lived in Palm Beach, Florida. [6]

In 2009, he founded Wren Living, now known as Wren Kitchens, a kitchen manufacturing and retail company which as of the beginning of 2019 had 82 showrooms across the UK, with an annual turnover in 2018 of £490 million. [7]

As of 2020, Healey's West Retail Group also owned the online electronics retailer Ebuyer. [8]

In 2019, Healey donated £250,000 to the Conservative Party two weeks after its leader Boris Johnson became prime minister. He has donated £2,210,000 to the Conservative Party since 2017. [9] [8]

In the 2021 Sunday Times Rich List, Healey and family were listed as the 70th wealthiest family in the UK, with an estimated net wealth of £1.43 billion. [6]

Personal life

Healey owns Warter Priory, a 12,000-acre estate near Pocklington, which he purchased in 1998 for a reported £48 million. [8] [10] It has about 50 shooting drives and was reported in 2023 to be worth over £1 billion. [6]

Malcolm Healey had three children. [11] His daughter, Suzy, was found strangled at her country home in August 2005. [11] Richard Holtby, her ex-fiancé, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison by a jury at Kingston upon Hull Crown Court in June 2006. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Warter Priory Management Limited". Companies House. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Campbell, James (31 May 2020). "The story of East Yorkshire's richest men, from family business to billionaires". Hull Live. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  3. ↑ Wright, Emma (21 April 2013). "Billion pound brotherstop East Yorkshire rich list as Allams lose ground". Hull Daily Mail. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  4. ↑ The Independent (1999). Corporate Profile: MFI - Step one: pick up the pieces. The Independent, 22 December 1999.
  5. ↑ "Rich List 2011" (PDF). Estates Gazette. 12 November 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  6. 1 2 3 Campbell, James (9 April 2023). "The story of East Yorkshire's richest men and their working class roots in Hull". HullLive. Reach. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  7. ↑ "Richest people in Yorkshire: Who is kitchen company tycoon Malcolm Healey, owner of Wren Kitchens and named the richest person in the region? Everything we know about the Hull business man". Yahoo News. 8 November 2023. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  8. 1 2 3 Young, Angus (20 February 2020). "East Yorkshire's richest man made eye-watering donation to the Tories". HullLive. Reach. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  9. ↑ "Search for individual donors to the Conservative Party" . Retrieved 2 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "Villagers welcome tycoon new owner". York Press. 4 June 1998. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  11. 1 2 Bunyan, Nigel (23 August 2005). "Kitchen tycoon's daughter dead in country home". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  12. ↑ David Pallister (21 June 2006). "Ex-lover who strangled heiress is cleared of murder". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 January 2017.


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