Posted on November - 12 - 2010
Sue Tennant profile: the retail whirlwind
WITH her whirlwind personality, Sue Tennant is the turnaround queen of Merseyside retailing.
Even after her achievements in bringing both top brand discount stores group TJ Hughes and clothing group Ethel Austin back from the brink, she is hungry for more of the same.
“Had Woolworths still been teetering and looking for someone to help I’d have taken it on,” said Ms Tennant, 48.
“I’d have done it and we’d have had a Liverpool Woollies back in Church Street.”
Not only did she and her team mastermind a dramatic rise in annual profits from a paltry £657,000 three years ago to £6.2m, but she opened eight stores over the last 14 months.
“Some of those were in old Woolworths’ stores, like our first store in Belfast,” said Ms Tennant, who comes from Page Moss and now lives in Heswall.
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