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Chrissie Rucker MBE
Founder and Board Director of The White Company
| Fact title | Fact data |
|---|---|
| Professional Field | Business |
| Born | 1968 |
| Place of Birth | Kent |
| Education | Combe Bank School, Sevenoaks |
Chrissie Rucker is founder and Director of the White Company. After leaving school at 16 she worked for a wedding dress designer and as a receptionist at Conde Nast, from where she moved into fashion journalism. She spotted a gap in the market for affordable, white-coloured home-accessories and launched The White Company as a mail-order business in 1994. In 2012, she was running 43 stores across the UK with a reported turnover of £120 million.
She was awarded an MBE in 2010, and won The Financial Times’ Private Businesswoman of the Year Award in 2012.
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