Stewart Milne

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

, DBA, DTech (born 23 July 1950) is a Scottish businessman and football club chairman, from

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. Milne founded the Aberdeen-based Stewart Milne Construction Group, a

housebuilding Home construction or residential construction is the process of constructing a house, apartment building, or similar residential building generally referred to as a 'home' when giving consideration to the people who might now or someday reside th ...

contractor, in 1975. He started off his business renovating bathrooms. As its chairman and chief executive, he earned the 2005

Scottish Entrepreneur of the Year Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: * Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland * Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ...

award. In 2008, he received his Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the house building industry in Scotland. Milne is a major shareholder in Aberdeen F.C., and joined the club's board of directors in 1994 to replace Dick Donald, subsequently becoming chairman in 1998. In November 2019, shortly after opening a new training facility on the western outskirts of the city, he announced that he would be stepping down as chairman. He has an honorary doctorate in business administration from

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(December 2000), and an honorary doctorate of technology from

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(November 2007), and an honorary doctorate from

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, in recognition of his outstanding

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contribution to the house building, construction and property development industry and to the

Scottish economy The economy of Scotland is an open mixed economy which, in 2020, had an estimated nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of $205 billion including oil and gas extraction in Scottish waters. Since the Acts of Union 1707, Scotland's economy has be ...

, also for services to

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. Stewart Milne Group sold its timber frame manufacturing subsidiary to Fife-based James Donaldson & Sons in 2021. In April 2022, the group announced that the housebuilding business was up for sale. Milne has most recently been appointed to the newly formed "Football Monitoring Board" at Aberdeen. This taskforce has been assembled outwith of any AGM, EGM nor was there any public knowledge of such group. Fellow members are Dave Cormack,

Willie Garner William Garner (born 24 July 1955), also known as Willie Garner is a Scottish former footballer best known for playing for Aberdeen. He is now a manager, mainly of clubs in the junior ranks of Scottish football. Career Garner was born in Stirl ...

and Steven Gunn.

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