Andrew Higginson (businessman)

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

Early life

Higginson was educated at Bury Grammar School. He studied town planning at Birmingham Polytechnic.[5]

Career

Higginson started his career at Unilever and Guinness Brewing[6] before moving into retail in 1990. He was Group Finance Director of Laura Ashley Holdings[6] and The Burton Group[6] 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.[6]

In 2012 he was appointed Non-Executive Chairman at Poundland[3] and in the same year became Non-Executive Chairman at McCurrach.[1] He was SID at BskyB until 2014.[1] Higginson is currently Non-Executive Chairman at N Brown[3] and was appointed Chairman of Wm Morrison in 2015, replacing Sir Ian Gibson.[3][6]

Private equity firm Warburg Pincus[7] appointed Higginson as a senior advisor to the firm in 2015. In 2016 Higginson was appointed as a senior advisor to Shore Capital Markets.[2]

He was an Independent Non-Executive director of the Rugby Football Union from 2011 to 2016.[8]

In September 2018, Higginson was appointed president of IGD.[9] In October, Higginson was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of online parking portal YourParkingSpace.[10]

Personal life

His wife June (from whom he is separated) is an age-group national triathlete.[11] Together they have three children.[12]

References
  1. "Andrew Higginson swaps Poundland for Wm Morrison".
  2. "Andrew Higginson joins Shore Capital Markets as adviser".
  3. "Poundland appoints former Tesco boss as chairman".
  4. "NorthEdge Capital backs luxury travel firm MBO".
  5. "'There is a sort of masochistic thing about being in business. I'm loving it'".
  6. "Morrison's boss to give talk at event".
  7. "Morrisons chairman Andrew Higginson adds Warburg Pincus to CV".
  8. "It will take me five years to put Morrisons back to rights". Archived from the original on January 30, 2015.
  9. Quinn2018-09-26T15:24:00+01:00, Ian. "Morrisons chairman Andrew Higginson appointed IGD president". The Grocer. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  10. "Morrisons Chairman joins yourparkingspace.co.uk board | Business Leader News". Business Leader. 2018-10-05. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  11. "Higginson aims to lead Poundland growth".
  12. "Springsteen fan Andy Higginson born to run a bit of Tesco".
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