Malcolm Stanley Healey (born June 1944) is a British entrepreneur.
Early life
He and his brother,
Eddie were born in
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a historic maritime city and unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Est ...
.
Career
Healey began his career in his family's paint company.
In 1982
MFI and Healey's company, Humber Kitchens,
[The Independent (1999)]
Corporate Profile: MFI - Step one: pick up the pieces
The Independent, 22 December 1999. bought
Hygena a kitchen and furniture retail company, from Norcros who were looking to dissolve the company and sell the Hygena name. MFI took full control of Hygena in 1987, buying Healey out for £200 million.
Healey then moved to the US, where he established kitchen manufacturing company Mill's Pride, which he later sold for £800 million before moving back to the UK. During the 1990s, Healey lived in
Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. Located on a barrier island in east-central Palm Beach County, the town is separated from West Palm Beach, Florida, West Palm Beach and Lake Worth Beach, Florida, ...
.
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In 2009, he founded Wren Living, now known as Wren Kitchens, a kitchen manufacturing and retail company which as of the beginning of 2019 had 82 showrooms across the UK, with an annual turnover in 2018 of £490 million.
As of 2020, Healey's West Retail Group also owned the online electronics retailer ]Ebuyer
Ebuyer is an electronic commerce retailer based in Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is an independent online retailer of computer and electrical goods in the United Kingdom.
The Ebuyer website is the 210th most visited site in the U ...
.[
In 2019, Healey donated £250,000 to the Conservative Party two weeks after its leader ]Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He wa ...
became prime minister. He has donated £2,210,000 to the Conservative Party since 2017.Sunday Times Rich List
The ''Sunday Times Rich List'' is a list of the 1,000 wealthiest people or families resident in the United Kingdom ranked by net wealth. The list is updated annually in April and has been published as a magazine supplement by British national ...
, Healey and family were listed as the 70th wealthiest family in the UK, with an estimated net wealth of £1.43 billion.
Personal life
Healey owns Warter Priory
Warter Priory is an country estate in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Yorkshire Wolds, centred south-west of the village of Warter and east of Pocklington. The estate had a country house from the 17th century until its demolition ...
, a 12,000-acre estate near Pocklington
Pocklington () is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, its population was 10,123. It lies east of York, and ...
, which he purchased in 1998 for a reported £48 million.[
Malcolm Healey had three children.][ Richard Holtby, her ex-fiancé, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison by a jury at Kingston upon Hull Crown Court in June 2006.]
References
1944 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Kingston upon Hull
British billionaires
Conservative Party (UK) donors
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