Christine Mary Tacon

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(born 29 October 1959) is a British government administrator. Tacon was the United Kingdom's first

Groceries Code Adjudicator The Groceries Code Adjudicator (or ''Supermarket Ombudsman'') is an independent statutory office established to enforce the Groceries Supply Code of Practice and to regulate the relationship between supermarkets and their direct suppliers within ...

Early life

Tacon was born in the Hartismere Rural District in

Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

, England. Tacon attended the all-female independent

Wycombe Abbey Wycombe Abbey is a Private schools in the United Kingdom, private girls' boarding and day school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. The school was founded in 1896 by Dame Frances Dove (1847–1942), who was previously headmistress of ...

High Wycombe High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe ( ), is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England. Lying in the valley of the River Wye, Buckinghamshire, River Wye surrounded by the Chiltern Hills, it is west-northwest of Charing Cross in London, ...

. Tacon grew up in Norfolk. She read Production Engineering at

Girton College, Cambridge Girton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college at Cambridge. In 1948, it was granted full college status by the un ...

Career

In 1982, Tacon started at Coats

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, working at Dynacast in France and Germany. From 2000 to 2012, Tacon was

managing director A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization. CEOs find roles in variou ...

of Co-operative Farms. In 2010, the position of Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) was created in U.K. and she was appointed to this position. She oversees the

Groceries Supply Code of Practice The Groceries (Supply Chain Practices) Market Investigation Order 2009 is a statutory instrument of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Code of practice The order sets out a Groceries Supply Code of Practice, known informally as the Groceri ...

. In 2017, Christine was reappointed as U.K.'s GCA. She is one of several Ambassador for the March 2019 International Food and Drink event in London, England.

Personal life

Tacon speaks German and French. She is a

Chartered Engineer Regulation and licensure in engineering is established by various jurisdictions of the world to encourage life, public welfare, safety, well-being, then environment and other interests of the general public and to define the licensure process thr ...

. She lives in

Sutton Lane Ends Sutton Lane Ends or Sutton is a semi-rural village and civil parishes in England, civil parish, approximately one mile south of Macclesfield. In 2020 it had an estimated population of 936. The parish includes the villages of Langley, Cheshire, La ...

, Macclesfield. She married in October 1992 in Norwich. She now has two children, a daughter born in November 1995 and a son born in July 1998. In the

2004 Birthday Honours The Birthday Honours 2004 for the Commonwealth realms were announced on 11 June 2004 for the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the Cook Islands and elsewhere to celebrate the Queen's Birthday of 2004. The recipients of honours are displayed here as ...

, Tacon was appointed a

References

External links

Government information

ChristineTacon.com

Christine Tacon on carmichaelfisher.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tacon, Christine 1959 births Alumni of Cranfield University Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English businesspeople in retailing English women in business Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Ombudsmen in the United Kingdom People educated at Wycombe Abbey People from Eye, Suffolk Living people