Nigel Northridge

Nigel Hargreaves Northridge (born January 1956)[1] is a British businessman, the chairman of Hogg Robinson Group since April 2016, and was the chairman of the British multinational department store chain, Debenhams from April 2010 to April 2016.[2][3]

Nigel Northridge
Born
Nigel Hargreaves Northridge

January 1956 (age 64)
NationalityBritish
EducationSullivan Upper School, Belfast
Alma materNorthern Ireland Polytechnic
OccupationBusinessman
TitleChairman, Hogg Robinson Group
Board member ofHogg Robinson Group
Inchcape
Scandinavian Tobacco Group

Early life

Nigel Hargreaves Northridge was born in January 1956.[4][1] He was educated at Sullivan Upper School, Belfast, followed by an HND in business studies from Northern Ireland Polytechnic.[4]

Career

Northridge worked for Gallaher Group for 32 years, rising to chief executive, from 2000 to 2007.[5]

Northridge was the chairman of the British multinational department store chain, Debenhams from April 2010 to April 2016, when he was succeeded by Sir Ian Cheshire.[6]

Northridge has been the chairman of Hogg Robinson Group since April 2016, following John Coombe's retirement.[5]

He is a non-executive director at Inchcape and is a non-executive director, and the vice chairman of Scandinavian Tobacco Group.[5] He has been a non-executive director of Aggreko, Thomas Cook Group, and Aer Lingus.[5]

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gollark: The anarchocommunist-or-whatever idea of everyone magically working together for the common good and planning everything perfectly and whatnot also sounds nice but is unachievable.
gollark: I mean, theoretically there are some upsides with central planning, like not having the various problems with dealing with externalities and tragedies of the commons (how do you pluralize that) and competition-y issues of our decentralized market systems, but it also... doesn't actually work very well.
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References
  1. "Nigel Hargreaves NORTHRIDGE - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Retrieved 5 June 2016.
  2. "Hogg Robinson Group plc: CEO and Executives - Businessweek".
  3. "Debenhams - Investor Relations - Corporate Governance".
  4. A/S, Scandinavian Tobacco Group. "Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S: Notice Convening the Annual General Meeting". globenewswire.com. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  5. "Board of Directors – Hogg Robinson Group". www.hoggrobinson.com. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  6. "Debenhams hires Sir Ian Cheshire as its new chairman".


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