Malcolm Healey
{{short description|British entrepreneur (born 1944)}}
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| birth_name = Malcolm Stanley Healey
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| birth_place = Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England
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| relatives = Eddie Healey (brother)
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Malcolm Stanley Healey (born June 1944) is a British entrepreneur.{{cite web|title=Warter Priory Management Limited|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03506616/officers|website=Companies House|accessdate=10 August 2015}}
Early life
He and his brother, Eddie were born in Kingston upon Hull.{{cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=James |title=The story of East Yorkshire's richest men, from family business to billionaires |url=https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/malcolm-eddie-healey-brothers-rich-4171976 |access-date=5 February 2021 |work=Hull Live |date=31 May 2020}}
Career
In 1982 MFI and Healey's company, Humber Kitchens,The Independent (1999). [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/corporate-profile-mfi-step-one-pick-up-the-pieces-1133998.html 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.estatesgazette.com/pdf/eg-rich-list-2011.pdf|title=Rich List 2011|publisher=Estates Gazette|date=12 November 2011|accessdate=18 October 2012}}
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.
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.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-08 |title=Richest people in Yorkshire: Who is kitchen company tycoon Malcolm Healey, owner of Wren Kitchens and named the richest person in the region? Everything we know about the Hull business man |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/richest-people-yorkshire-kitchen-company-121848558.html |access-date=2023-11-18 |website=Yahoo News |language=en-GB}}
As of 2020, Healey's West Retail Group also owned the online electronics retailer Ebuyer.
In 2019, Healey donated £250,000 to the Conservative Party two weeks after its leader Boris Johnson became prime minister. He has donated £2,210,000 to the Conservative Party since 2017.{{cite web |url=https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/ |title=Search for individual donors to the Conservative Party |access-date=2 October 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/richest-man-donated-conservative-party-3862092 |title=East Yorkshire's richest man made eye-watering donation to the Tories |last=Young |first=Angus |website=HullLive |publisher=Reach |date=20 February 2020 |access-date=11 April 2020}}
In the 2021 Sunday Times Rich List, Healey and family were listed as the 70th wealthiest family in the UK, with an estimated net wealth of £1.43 billion.{{cite news |url=https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/malcolm-eddie-healey-brothers-rich-4171976 |title=The story of East Yorkshire's richest men and their working class roots in Hull |last=Campbell |first=James |website=HullLive |publisher=Reach |date=9 April 2023 |access-date=15 October 2023}}
Personal life
Healey owns Warter Priory, a 12,000-acre estate near Pocklington, which he purchased in 1998 for a reported £48 million.{{cite news |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/7969020.villagers-welcome-tycoonnew-owner/ |title=Villagers welcome tycoon new owner |website=York Press |date=4 June 1998 |access-date=15 October 2023}} It has about 50 shooting drives and was reported in 2023 to be worth over £1 billion.
Malcolm Healey had three children.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1496760/Kitchen-tycoons-daughter-murdered-in-country-home.html |title=Kitchen tycoon's daughter dead in country home |last=Bunyan |first=Nigel |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date=23 August 2005 |access-date=11 April 2020}}
His daughter, Suzy, was found strangled at her country home in August 2005. 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.{{cite news|author=David Pallister|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jun/21/ukcrime.topstories3|title=Ex-lover who strangled heiress is cleared of murder|work=The Guardian|date=21 June 2006|accessdate=8 January 2017}}
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Category:Businesspeople from Kingston upon Hull
Category:Conservative Party (UK) donors
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