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...She was previously executive chair of SSE Energy Services and ran the UK and Ireland business of Dixons Carphone....
...Mr Rowe and M&S chairman Archie Norman have been significantly bolder than their predecessors....
...John Dixon, 2012-2015 An M&S lifer, Mr Dixon began his career as a store management trainee in 1986 and spent 29 years at the retailer before quitting in 2015....
...The Guyana-born British exec started out at BT and was also a Dixons mobile phone salesman....
...Mr Singer has been finance director at Dixons Carphone since 2014, and before the merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse was group finance director of Dixons....
...The latest shepherd hired to herd it to safety is retailing veteran Archie Norman, who was appointed the group’s chairman in September....
...At Dixons Carphone, the strategy is not so much DIY as DIFM, or do it for me....
...Former Conservative MP Archie Norman is set to step down as chairman of ITV as the UK broadcaster prepares for its first management shake-up in six years....
...Tesco has appointed John Allan, the former chairman of Dixons, as its new chairman, despite some big shareholders pushing for the role to go to veteran retailer Archie Norman....
...Archie Norman fits the bill,” one top-10 shareholder said....
...His record as chairman of Dixons is also pretty good. Dixons, don’t forget, also had its challenges He does have some experience of going into a troubled retailer and improving it as chairman.”...
...The exit leaves the field open for John Allan, the former chairman of Dixons, who is also on the shortlist, to be appointed to the role....
...Billed as the toughest job in the retail sector, John Allan’s appointment as the new Tesco chairman surprised some, who thought the job would go to veteran supermarket retailer Archie Norman....
...John Dixon The head of non-food at Marks and Spencer, Mr Dixon is credited with transforming the retailer’s operations while working under former chairman and chief executive Sir Stuart Rose....
...John Allan, the former chairman of Dixons, is also a potential candidate for the job. Tesco declined to comment....
...Those that made the cut include Sir Ian Cheshire, who recently stepped down as chief executive of DIY retailer Kingfisher, and John Allan, chairman of housebuilder Barratt and a co-deputy chairman of Dixons...
...However, some shareholders are still keen to see Archie Norman appointed to the role, although the man who turned round Asda in the 1990s is not thought to be in the process....
...Tesco appoints former Dixons chairman Tesco this week cast aside shareholder demands for veteran retailer Archie Norman to become its next chairman, choosing instead to appoint John Allan, the former chairman...
...Archie Norman As chairman of ITV and Lazard London, Archie Norman undoubtedly has the credentials to be Tesco chairman....
...When he takes over at Chesapeake, the triumvirate that has been running the company – Archie Dunham, chairman, Steven Dixon, chief operating officer, and Domenic Dell’Osso, chief financial officer – will...
...It also formed a three-man “office of the chairman”, including Mr Dixon, Archie Dunham, the chairman who joined the company last year, and Domenic Dell’Osso, the chief financial officer, to take over responsibilities...
...At the meeting in Oklahoma City, Steve Dixon, Chesapeake’s chief operating officer who has been acting as chief executive, said the company was “evolving”....
...The talk was that Archie Norman, the former Asda chairman, had turned his attention to Carphone Warehouse after narrowly losing out to private equity firms Doughty Hanson and Providence Equity Partners in...
...Speaking of great retailers…This morning’s story about Archie Norman setting up his own private equity venture was a good one....
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