{"id":337693,"date":"2011-03-25T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/25\/andy-hornby-steps-down-from-boots\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:01:11","slug":"andy-hornby-steps-down-from-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/25\/andy-hornby-steps-down-from-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Hornby steps down from Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"42.6186830015\">\n    \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>25 March 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>08:01 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Andy Hornby, the man in charge of HBOS bank when it was rescued by Lloyds Banking Group, has resigned as chief executive of Alliance Boots.<\/p>\n<p>After what Mr Hornby called &#8220;an intense five years&#8221; as boss of first HBOS and then Boots, he said he had decided to take &#8220;a few months&#8217; break&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Boots said it would begin its search for a successor &#8220;in due course&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the group, Stefano Pessina, praised Mr Hornby&#8217;s &#8220;wealth of retail and marketing experience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/business-12860029\" title=\"Andy Hornby steps down from Boots\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andy Hornby steps down from Boots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 25 March 2011 Last updated at 08:01 ET Andy Hornby, the man in charge of HBOS bank when it was rescued by Lloyds Banking Group, has resigned as chief executive of Alliance Boots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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