Andrew Jennings

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Andrew Jennings ( b.1948 in Great Britain ) is a British manager . From January 1, 2011 to the end of 2013, he was chairman of the management of the Karstadt department store chain .

Jennings has been in retail for around 35 years, especially in department stores , and has worked in five countries on three continents. He started at Debenhams in London and moved to South Africa for the Greatermans department store in the late 1970s . He later worked in London at Harrods , at House of Fraser , Brown Thomas in Ireland , at Holt Renfrew in Canada , was CEO of Saks Fifth Avenue in New York and, most recently, for three years until the end of 2009, he was co-chief at Woolworths Holding Limited in Cape Town (which has no business connection with the German Woolworth ).

Jennings planned to rebuild the company within four years. He relied on new sports department stores, the renovation of existing houses and the introduction of international brands.

Andrew Jennings did not speak German when he took office. His wife Karen is South African. His mother was a secretary in a missionary society .

Because of the change in Karstadt advertising, the German Language Association awarded Jennings the negative prize Sprachpanscher of 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ailing department store group: Karstadt boss Jennings throws down. mirror. de, June 9, 2013, accessed June 9, 2013
  2. ↑ Jennings becomes the new Karstadt boss , faz.net from November 23, 2010, accessed on December 5, 2011
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Drechsler: From Cape Town to Karstadt , Handelsblatt dated December 9, 2010, accessed on December 5, 2011
  4. ↑ Andrew Jennings brings Karstadt back to success , business-on.de of July 7, 2011, accessed on December 5, 2011
  5. ↑ Karstadt boss sport motivation of employees , focus.de from September 18, 2011, accessed on December 5, 2011
  6. ↑ Karstadt boss is "Sprachpanscher of the year" , welt.de, August 24, 2012, accessed on June 24, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Jennings, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British manager, CEO of Karstadt
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Britain