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British business executive (born 1957)

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

Early life

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

Career

Higginson started his career at Unilever and Guinness Brewing before moving into retail in 1990. He was Group Finance Director of Laura Ashley Holdings and The Burton Group 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Personal life

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

References

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  3. ^ "Andrew Higginson joins Shore Capital Markets as adviser".
  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. ^ "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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