Richard Value, Managing Director of Clothes & Residence at Marks & Spencer is one outstanding style retail determine to obtain an MBE for providers to style.
Since rejoining Marks & Spencer in 2020, Value has been instrumental in revitalising the corporate’s clothes and residential division. He has has overseen the profitable launch of ‘Manufacturers at M&S,’ which now options over 100 third-party manufacturers.
Below his steering, the clothes and residential division reported a 30% year-on-year improve in adjusted working revenue to £223.4 million for the 26 weeks ending 30 September 2023, with revenues rising by 5.7%.
Value additionally serves as Non Govt Director at No person’s Youngster and digital commerce platform Refined Networks.
Leena Nair, International Chief Govt Officer of Chanel since January 2022, was awarded a CBE for providers to the retail and client sector.
Nair started her profession at Unilever in 1992 as a administration trainee, and went on to serve the corporate in varied roles, together with being appointed as its Chief Human Assets Officer in 2016, turning into the primary girl, the primary Asian, and the youngest particular person to carry the place.
In December 2021, Nair was appointed CEO of Chanel, formally assuming the function in January 2022, on the time the one girl of color main a serious luxurious model.
Throughout her tenure on the French luxurious maison, Nair has overseen main retail enlargement, together with a Tokyo flagship; the launch of the environmentally aware magnificence and perfume line No. 1 de Chanel; and increasing its non-public buying expertise for prime purchasers.
Different style business gamers to obtain honours within the listing are Smruti Sriram, founder and CEO of aware style label Luggage of Ethics, who was awarded an OBE for providers to style, and John Culbert, Managing Director of heritage cashmere model Glenisla Kilts, was honoured with an MBE for providers to the Scottish style and textile industries.
Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer mentioned: “Every day, extraordinary folks exit and do extraordinary issues for his or her communities. They characterize the easiest of the UK and that core worth of service which I put on the centre of all the things this authorities does.
“The New Yr Honours Checklist celebrates extra of those unsung heroes, and I thank them for his or her unbelievable contribution.”
Additionally within the New Yr Honours Checklist 2025:
- Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
- Former England Supervisor Gareth Southgate
- Actor Stephen Fry
- Musician and Presenter Myleene Klass
- Gardener Alan Titchmarsh
- Actress Carey Mulligan
- Actress Sarah Lancashire
