{"id":196651,"date":"2025-12-04T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/?p=196651"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:14:58","slug":"marks-electrical-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/12\/marks-electrical-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Marks Electrical names new chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marks Electrical chair Marnie Millard is stepping down from her role at the end of December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Millard is due to depart on 31 December, and will be succeeded by Darren Bowkett, who will assume the role of chair and join the Board on 2 January 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Millard joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/markselectrical.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electricals retailer<\/a> in 2021 as part of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/08\/marks-electrical-eyes-200m-stock-market-float\/\"> IPO.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bowkett worked for building materials manufacturer Ibstock Group for more than 40 years, most recently serving as strategic projects director at Ibstock Brick.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"rght-related-articles-middle rght-latest-articles mb-4 mt-3\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Related Story<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"rght-middle-related-article-list\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"rght-middle-related-article-box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"rght-middle-related-article-img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/whsmith-new-chair\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WHSmith-1024x821.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"WHSmith\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WHSmith-1024x821.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WHSmith-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"rght-middle-related-article-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/whsmith-new-chair\/\" class=\"rght-articles-content-link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>WHSmith draws up plans to appoint new chair, says report<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"rght-articles-author-date\"><i class=\"far fa-calendar-alt\"><\/i><span>12\/01\/2026 x 11:05 AM<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marks Electrical CEO Mark Smithson said: \u201cMarnie joined the board in 2021 as part of the IPO and has been an integral part of the team, helping the business to deliver on its strategic plans as we&#8217;ve expanded over recent years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMarnie has been a great help guiding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/marks-electrical\/\">company,<\/a> the other directors and me over the last four years. We are all very grateful for her efforts throughout her tenure and wish her well for the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are excited to welcome Darren with his operational expertise and look forward to welcoming him to the team in the new year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Millard added: \u201cI have enjoyed working with Mark and the team since the listing on AIM in 2021, supporting the business as we transitioned from a successful family-owned business to a publicly traded company.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAfter over four years in the role, it is now the right time for me to hand over the role to Darren, who will oversee the next phase of the business&#8217; progress.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/newsletter-sign-up-retail-gazette?utm_source=Website&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=SignUp\">Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette\u2018s free daily email newsletter<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marks Electrical chair Marnie Millard is stepping down from her role at the end of December.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":93359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2646,3818,2620],"tags":[18879,58448,57217,50592],"class_list":["post-196651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appointments","category-electrical","category-news","tag-chair","tag-chair-succession","tag-electricals-retailer","tag-marks-electrical"],"comment_count":0,"featured_video":false,"extra_images":false,"featured_youtube_video_url":"","featured_image_url":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/B_qvT1pUYAAju-A-1-e1629109049189.jpg","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/B_qvT1pUYAAju-A-1-e1629109049189-300x200.jpg","views":"700","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196651"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196659,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196651\/revisions\/196659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}