Intu’s group operations director to retire

Gordon McKinnon, group operations director at intu Properties, is retiring at the end of the month. [caption id="attachment_1009540" align="alignright" width="200"] Gordon McKinnon[/caption] McKinnon had joined the Trafford Centre, part of the Peel Group at the time, as director of operations in 2004. He took up a similar job at intu in 2011, then known as Capital Shopping Centres Group, after it acquired the centre. He has held the group operations director role at intu since its rebrand in 2013. McKinnon has spent 42 years in retail and retail real estate. He began his career at Marks & Spencer in 1977 in a store management position, before working his way up to a regional manager role in 1995. After being seconded in 1998 to Manchester Millennium, the task force rebuilding Manchester city centre following the 1996 IRA bomb, McKinnon left M&S in 2000 to take up the chief executive role at the Manchester City Centre Management Company. He worked there for more than four years before joining the Trafford Centre. Matthew Roberts, chief executive of intu, told EG: “While everyone at intu is very sad to see Gordon go, he deserves a fantastic retirement following his long and successful career.” To send feedback, e-mail pui-guan.man@egi.co.uk or tweet @PuiGuanM or @estatesgazette