Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> December 4, 2000
MARK HENDERSON is the Chief Executive of Gieves & Hawkes Plc. Mr
Henderson was educated at the Benedictine run Amplefoth College in
Yorkshire. After brief periods working in film and studying law he went
to live in South Africa at 21 and studied marketing at Witwatersrand
College in Johannesburg and worked for a family engineering business. At
the age of 24, he returned to the UK, married and began a career in
Brand Marketing, spending seven years in cosmetics with Avon, Mary Quant
and Max Factor and then seven years with Alfred Dunhill, becoming Head
of Marketing and managing their GBP20 million promotional budget. In
1992, he left and joined Czech & Speake as Managing Director and a
shareholder, which he describes as a learning experience in venture
capital and running a small private company. In 1996, he joined Gieves &
Hawkes as Managing Director and is now into his fifth year of reshaping
the Company into a tightly run luxury branded menswear business with 11
sites in the UK including its 6,000 square feet store at Number One
Savile Row and 32 in Asia. In 1999, Gieves and Hawkes demerged from the
Gieves Group and became a freestanding Plc of which he is the Chief
Executive. His ambition is to more than double the business. He is
married and has two children. Profile
corporate profile: what is its business?
Mr. Henderson: We own the freehold of number one Savile Row, which is
probably
