New Year Honours 2018
Christian RUCKER OBE
- Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Founder
Organisation: White Company
“Founder, The White Company. For services to Retail.”
Timeline
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Founder and Creative Director, White Company. For services to the Retail Industry.
View London Gazette noticeOfficer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Founder, The White Company. For services to Retail.
View London Gazette noticeLondon Gazette notice
Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
30 December 2017
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
O.B.E.
To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Ms Christian RUCKER M.B.E.
Founder, The White Company
For services to Retail.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 62150 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Role, region and citation as recorded for each award.
Member of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2010- Role at the time
- Founder
- Region
- Buckinghamshire
“Founder and Creative Director, White Company. For services to the Retail Industry.”
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2018- Role at the time
- Founder
- Region
- Buckinghamshire
“Founder, The White Company. For services to Retail.”
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How common is this award?
The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 256 times in the New Year Honours List 2018 — about 18% of the list.
In their area
148 Officer of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Buckinghamshire.
What organisation were they with?
Founder, White Company.
How widely is this recognised?
3,730 people have been recognised for Business & Economy.
Counts reflect the 2008–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
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Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Member of the Order of the British Empire · 2010
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2010). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2009.
Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2018
London Gazette (official record), issue 62150, notice 2938160. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2018).
Published 30 December 2017.
Location (Buckinghamshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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