City grandee Allan Leighton has been appointed chairman of C&A, the fashion retailer that quit the UK almost 20 years ago but operates more than 1,500 stores worldwide. Mr Leighton is currently chairman of Co-operative Group and made his name as the chief executive of Asda in the 1990s, working with Archie Norman to restore the supermarket group’s fortunes before selling it to Walmart in 1999. He has also chaired Royal Mail and Danish jewellery group Pandora. C&A, named for the initials of its founding brothers Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer, is still controlled by the secretive Dutch-German family via Cofra, a Swiss-domiciled holding company.
City grandee Allan Leighton has been appointed chairman of C&A, the fashion retailer that quit the UK almost 20 years ago but operates more than 1,500 stores worldwide. Mr Leighton is currently chairman of Co-operative Group and made his name as the chief executive of Asda in the 1990s, working with Archie Norman to restore the supermarket group’s fortunes before selling it to Walmart in 1999. He has also chaired Royal Mail and Danish jewellery group Pandora. C&A, named for the initials of its founding brothers Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer, is still controlled by the secretive Dutch-German family via Cofra, a Swiss-domiciled holding company.
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