Lord Alliance of Manchester CBE has passed away at the age of 93, having retired from the House of Lords in March this year. A director of N Brown Group for over 50 years until it went private earlier this year, he was also the former chair of Coats Viyella.
Steve Johnson, executive chair and CEO of N Brown, said: “Without Lord Alliance there would be no N Brown, an employer of around 1500 people nationwide. Lord Alliance had a career defined by entrepreneurship, public service and philanthropy, and was a titan of British retail. He was a source of great wisdom for me and for so many of us at N Brown, and it was a privilege to have worked with him. We will all miss him and our thoughts are with his wife Lady Homa Alliance, his son Joshua Alliance, a director of the company, and their wider family.”
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