Ian maclaurin biography
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Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth
British businessman, cricket chairman, Chancellor, and politician
Ian Charter MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of KnebworthDL FRSA (born 30 March 1937) is a British businessman, who has been chairman of Vodafone and chairman and chief executive of Tesco. He is a former chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, a former president of the Marylebone Cricket Club and a former Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.
He was a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 1996 until his retirement in 2017.
Early life
[edit]Ian MacLaurin was born in 1937 in Blackheath, Kent. He attended Shrewsbury House School[1] and Malvern College.
Career
[edit]Tesco
[edit]MacLaurin joined Tesco in 1959 as a management trainee, then held a number of more senior appointments in its retail operations before being appointed to its Board in 1970. He was appointed managing director in the 1970s and became chairman in 198
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Tiger by the Tail - Hardcover
Tiger By The Tail: A Life In Business From Tesco To Test Cricket (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
MacLaurin, Ian
Published by Macmillan, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 0333749863 / ISBN 13: 9780333749869
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. VG/VG. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on title-page. Inscription reads, 'To ----/With many best wishes-/all our yesterday's !!/Ian'. Illustrated with photographs. The autobiography of former British businessman Ian MacLaurin (born 1937). He has been chairman of Vodafone and chairman and chief executive of Tesco; he is also a former chairman of England and Wales Cricket Board. With Ap
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Lord MacLaurin
A thin, sombre-suited executive, with waspish features and a permanently furrowed panna, Ian MacLaurin started his career as a 22-year-old management trainee in 1959, and rose to become the chairman of one of Britain's most successful supermarket chains. But MacLaurin - later Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth - funnen that the business acumen acquired in a 30-year career at Tesco counted for little in the archaic world of English county cricket. When he was appointed chairman of the ECB on its creation in 1997, his quest was to transform a committee-run shambles into an organisation capable of carrying the game into the 21st century. And indeed, he had his moments - by the time he announced he would step down in 2002, the County Championship and the one-day league had been divided into two divisions (MacLaurin had originally proposed a three-conference scheme that Wisden Cricket Monthly famously condemned as "barmy"), and the creation of the central-contracts struktur and the