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Article: Profile: Sir Richard Greenbury Making top Marks
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- September 19, 1998
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SIR Richard Greenbury, the 62-year-old chairman and chief
executive of Marks & Spencer, is a competitive man but it is unlikely
that he would be leading Europe's top retailer had he been the
champion footballer or tennis star that he wanted to be.
The pedigree of this British bulldog goes some way to explaining
why his bark, not to mention his bite, has been so effective in the
cut-throat world of retailing. His father was from Leeds and his
mother was a Geordie born of a Scottish mother from Motherwell.
"I think of myself as a Northerner. It's that mixture of
Scottish, Geordie and Yorkshire that makes me so competitive -
there's nothing more competitive than a Scot," he says pointing to a ...