Stuart Rose
Stuart Rose (Lord Rose of Monewden) is the chairman of Ocado.
He was made a Conservative peer on 17 September 2014.[1]
Career
Rose began his career as a management trainee at Marks & Spencer, he spent seventeen years there before moving to the Burton Group. Periods as chief executive of Argos (2008) and Booker (1998-2000) followed as well as a role as chief executive of Arcadia Group (2000-2002) - the owners of Topshop and BHS. Rose turned the business around and presided over its sale for a reported £855 million to Philip Green. Rose then moved back to Marks & Spencer.
He is currently the chairman of internet supermarket Ocado as well as directorships with Fat Face Limited and Oasis Healthcare and a senior adviser to HSBC European.[2][1]
Support for the Conservatives
On the 1 April 2015 Rose was one of the 103 business leaders who wrote to the telegraph praising the Conservative's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Parliament.UK Lord Rose of Monewden, accessed 7 April 2015.
- ↑ JLA Speakers Stuart Rose, accessed 7 April 2015.
- ↑ Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 7 April 2015.
