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Retail - Debenhams picks tobacco veteran as chairman 

Debenhams moved to fill its soon-to-be vacant chairman’s post by announcing that it had appointed Nigel Northridge, a tobacco industry veteran, as John Lovering’s successor.

Mr Northridge, 53, is a former chief executive of Gallaher, the cigarette maker that was bought by Japan Tobacco in 2006.

He is chairman of Paddy Power, the bookmaker, and also a non-executive director at Aggreko, Thomas Cook and Inchcape.

Debenhams, which operates 144 department stores in the UK and Ireland, had already appointed Mr Northridge to its board as a non-executive director, a post he formally took up at the start of the year.

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