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Early life

His father was a plumber and his mother a nurse. He went to The King's School, Grantham, even though initially having failed the Eleven Plus, he gained four A levels. He received a first-class BEng Hons in Gas Engineering from Salford University in 1987 as part of a British Gas scholarship spending a year on the job in the gas industry. He started as a graduate trainee engineer with British Gas. In 1988, he worked for Manchester-based Hopkinsons Group, one of British Gas's suppliers, as a marketing manager. In 1992-3, he studied for an MBA at Cranfield School of Management. The Kings School, is an English educational institution in Grantham, Lincolnshire with an unbroken history on the same site since the date of its endowment as one of the last acts of Richard Foxe in 1528. ... The Eleven Plus or Transfer Test was an examination which was given to students in their last year of primary education in the United Kingdom under the Tripartite System. ... A First Class Honours degree is an academic degree awarded to students at undergraduate and post-graduate level either by examination, course work or thesis. ... Bachelor of Engineering (BAI (in latin), BEng, or BE) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded to a student after three, four or five years of studying engineering at an accredited university in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, China and India. ... Logo as private enterprise Logo under state ownership British Gas was formerly the name of the United Kingdoms monopoly gas supplier. ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... Cranfield School of Management, part of Cranfield University has provided management training since the late 1940s. ...

Career

He began at ASDA as a marketing manager for Archie Norman, when aged 29 in April 1994, having been top of his course at Cranfield. He was noted for his determination and eye for detail. At ASDA, he worked under Allan Leighton and with Justin King, Richard Baker and Andy Hornby. In 1998, he became corporate marketing director, then in 1999, he became European own-label director. In November 2000, he headed the GEORGE clothing part of ASDA (worth about £1bn a year on its own in the UK), working with designer Kate Bostock, after the potentially-damaging departure of George Davies. He became Chief Operating Officer in September 2004, then CEO in March 2005 looking after ASDA's 140,000 employees. He sacked 1,400 middle-management staff in July 2005. He claims to make 'massive amounts more money than Sainsbury's and Morrisons put together', although in fiscal context Morrisons have not been seeing much profit recently. His recent nemeses have been the GMB and hard-pressed dairy farmers. Archibald John Norman (May 1, 1954) is a British politician and businessman. ... Justin King (right) with Chairman Philip Hampton. ... George Davies (born 1941) is a British fashion retailer who headed Next from its creation in the 1980s, and founded the fashion label George at Asda in the 1990s. ... A Chief Operating Officer (COO) is a corporate officer responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of the corporation. ... J Sainsbury plc is the parent company of Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd, commonly known as Sainsburys, a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom, and has more than 700,000 members. ... A dairy farmer is a farmer who specializes in raising dairy cattle, specifically for milk and/or cheese products. ...

He lives in Harrogate with his wife, Susan, and their son and daughter. He maintains his level of fitness rigorously - cycling over 100 miles at a go and sometimes cycles into work. He drives a MINI and enthusiastically attends Robbie Williams concerts. Harrogate is a large town in North Yorkshire, England. ... MINI is the name of a Cowley, England-based subsidiary of BMW as well as that of a car produced by that subsidiary since April 2001. ... Robbie Williams (born Robert Peter Williams on February 13, 1974) is a Grammy Award-nominated and fifteen time BRIT Award-winning English singer/songwriter. ...

External links

• November 2006 Telegraph article on employing 1,800 people to belatedly improve ASDA's internet presence
• November 2002 Times article on his GEORGE empire
• May 2007 Guardian article - Bond, licensed to sell
• February 2006 Independent article - A day in the life of Andy Bond
• Opening the new Salford Business School in May 2007
• CV
• April 2007 interview on BBC Breakfast