Stewart Milne

Stewart Milne CBE, DBA, DTech (born 23 July 1950)^[1] is a Scottish businessman and former football club chairman, from Alford, Aberdeenshire.

Stewart Milne CBE
Born	23 July 1950 (1950-07-23) (age 75) Aberdeen, Scotland
Known for	Chairman of Aberdeen F.C. (1998 - 2019)

Milne is a major shareholder in Aberdeen F.C., and joined the club's board of directors in 1994 to replace Dick Donald, subsequently becoming chairman in 1998. In November 2019, shortly after opening a new training facility on the western outskirts of the city, he announced that he would be stepping down as chairman.^[2]

He has an honorary doctorate in business administration from Robert Gordon University (December 2000),^[3] and an honorary doctorate of technology from Edinburgh Napier University (November 2007),^{[citation needed]} and an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University, in recognition of his outstanding entrepreneurial contribution to the housebuilding, construction and property development industry and to the Scottish economy, also for services to higher education in Scotland.^{[citation needed]} He earned the 2005 Scottish Entrepreneur of the Year award. In the 2008 New Year Honours, he was awarded a CBE for services to the housebuilding industry in Scotland.^[4]

Stewart Milne Group

Milne founded the Aberdeen-based Stewart Milne Construction Group, a housebuilding contractor, in 1975. He started off his business renovating bathrooms.

Stewart Milne Group sold its timber frame manufacturing subsidiary to Fife-based James Donaldson & Sons in 2021.^[5] In April 2022, the group announced that the housebuilding business was up for sale.^[6] In January 2024, the Scottish housebuilding business went into administration with the loss of 217 jobs,^[7] due to "the slump in the oil-linked property market around Aberdeen and the firm's hesitance to buy land during Covid".^[8] The group's English subsidiary,^[9] Manchester-based Stewart Milne Homes North West England (Developments) Ltd, also went into administration, on 12 January 2023, with Homes England set to lose up to £9.2m as a result.^[10] The group collapsed owing suppliers and subcontractors £153m.^[11]