LONDON (ShareCast) - (Sharecast News) - Halfords Group announced the appointment of Loraine Woodhouse as its chief financial officer on Friday, which would take effect from 1 November.
The FTSE 250 retailer said Woodhouse had been finance director of Waitrose since 2015, having previously occupied senior finance roles in the John Lewis Partnership including as acting group finance director.

Prior to that, she was CFO of Hobbs, finance director of Capital Shopping Centres - now Intu - and finance director of Costa Coffee.

Woodhouse's early career included finance and investor relations roles at Kingfisher.

She was succeeding Jonny Mason who, as Halfords had previously announced, was leaving the firm on 31 July 2018.

"I am delighted that Loraine will be joining Halfords as CFO and look forward to working with her," said chief executive officer Graham Stapleton.

"She has extensive finance leadership within service-based retail and will be a great addition to the senior team.

"I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Jonny Mason and to wish him every success in the future."

Woodhouse was currently a partner trustee of the John Lewis Partnership Trust for Pensions, but would relinquish that role prior to her appointment as CFO of Halfords.

Loraine Woodhouse herself said she was "really pleased" to be joining Halfords, adding that she "looked forward to working with the team to build upon the good foundations in place and to deliver the exciting next phase."

Halfords Group said it would publish its 20-week trading statement on 4 September.

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