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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler and agency

Veteran Harrods executive drops plan to head Fenwick amid Al Fayed controversy

a daytime picture of the Harrods store in Knightsbridge taken from the opposite side of the street
The Harrods store in Knightsbridge, west London. Photograph: Pawel Libera/LightRocket/Getty Images

A long-serving former Harrods executive has stepped back from plans to become boss of department store Fenwick chain this month amid controversy about the activities of the late owner of the Knightsbridge department store.

Nigel Blow worked at Harrods for more than 14 years from 1992 to 2007 when the retailer was owned by Al Fayed, the subject of recent BBC documentary based on the accounts of more than 20 women who said he had sexually assaulted or raped them when they worked for the company.

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