Scottish businessman (born 1950)
Stewart Milne
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Born
| 23 July 1950
(
1950-07-23
)
(age
73)
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Known for
| Chairman of
Aberdeen F.C.
(1998 - 2019)
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Stewart Milne
CBE
, DBA, DTech (born 23 July 1950)
[1]
is a Scottish businessman and former football club chairman, from
Alford, Aberdeenshire
.
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.
[2]
He has an honorary doctorate in
business administration
from
Robert Gordon University
(December 2000),
[3]
and an honorary doctorate of technology from
Edinburgh Napier University
(November 2007),
[
citation needed
]
and an honorary doctorate from
Heriot-Watt University
, in recognition of his outstanding
entrepreneurial
contribution to the housebuilding, construction and property development industry and to the
Scottish economy
, also for services to
higher education in Scotland
.
[
citation needed
]
He earned the 2005
Scottish Entrepreneur of the Year
award. In the
2008 New Year Honours
, he was awarded a CBE for services to the housebuilding industry in Scotland.
[4]
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
and Steven Gunn.
[
citation needed
]
Stewart Milne Group
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Milne founded the Aberdeen-based Stewart Milne Construction Group, a
housebuilding
contractor, in 1975. He started off his business renovating bathrooms.
Stewart Milne Group sold its timber frame manufacturing subsidiary to Fife-based
James Donaldson & Sons
in 2021.
[5]
In April 2022, the group announced that the housebuilding business was up for sale.
[6]
In January 2024, the Scottish housebuilding business went into
administration
with the loss of 217 jobs,
[7]
due to "the slump in the oil-linked property market around Aberdeen and the firm's hesitance to buy land during Covid".
[8]
The group's English subsidiary,
[9]
Manchester
-based Stewart Milne Homes North West England (Developments) Ltd, also went into administration, on 12 January 2023, with
Homes England
set to lose up to £9.2m as a result.
[10]
The group collapsed owing suppliers and subcontractors £153m.
[11]
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