Malcolm Stanley Healey (born June 1944) is a British entrepreneur.

Career

Healey began his career in his family's paint company. In 1982

MFI Group MFI Group Limited was a British furniture retailer, operating under the MFI brand. The company was one of the largest suppliers of kitchens and bedroom furniture in the United Kingdom, and operated mainly in retail parks in out of town locations ...

and Healey's company, Humber Kitchens,The Independent (1999)
Corporate Profile: MFI - Step one: pick up the pieces
The Independent, 22 December 1999. bought

Hygena Hygena is a dormant brand of fitted kitchen and furniture in the United Kingdom. Started in Liverpool in 1925 to make Hoosier cabinets, it was bought by new investors in 1938, who after the war built modular kitchens for the new British pos ...

a kitchen and furniture retail company, from Norcros who were looking to dissolve the company and sell the Hygena name. MFI took full control of Hygena in 1987, buying Healey out for £200 million. In 2009, he founded Wren Living, now known as Wren Kitchens, a kitchen manufacturing and retail company which as of the beginning of 2019 had 82 showrooms across the UK, with an annual turnover in 2018 of £490 million. As of 2020, Healey's West Retail Group also owned the online electronics retailer

Ebuyer Ebuyer is an electronic commerce retailer based in Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is the largest independent online retailer of computer and electrical goods in the United Kingdom. The Ebuyer website is the 210th most visited site ...

. In 2019, Healey donated £250,000 to the

Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...

two weeks after its leader

Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as F ...

became Prime Minister. He has donated £2,210,000 to the Conservative Party since 2017.

Personal life

Healey owns Warter Priory, a 12,000-acre estate near

Pocklington Pocklington is a market town and civil parish situated at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded its population as 8,337. It is east of York and northwest of Hull. The town's sk ...

. Malcolm Healey had three children. His daughter, Suzy, was found strangled at her country home in August 2005. Richard Holtby, her ex-fiancé, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison by a jury at

Kingston upon Hull Crown Court The Kingston upon Hull Combined Court Centre is a Crown Court venue, which deals with criminal cases, as well as a County Court, which deals with civil cases, in Lowgate, Kingston upon Hull, England. History Until the early 1990s, all crimina ...

in June 2006.

References

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