Burberry Burberry check garments being banned at some venues. GUS divested its remaining interest in Burberry in December 2005. Burberry Group plc was initially floated on the London Stock Exchange in July 2002. In 2005, Sanyo-shokai was the Burberry ready-to-wear licence holder in Japan with retail value of €435 million. In 2006, Rose Marie Bravo, who as Chief Executive had led Burberry to mass market success through licensing, decided to retire. She was replaced by another American, Angela Ahrendts, who joined from Liz Claiborne in January 2006, and took up the position of CEO on 1 July 2006. Ahrendts and Bailey
Angela Strank a geologist "by accident". In 2010, she won the UK First Women's Award in Science and Technology. an award sponsored by the UK Government (CBI) in recognition of pioneering UK women in business and industry. In the 2017 Birthday Honours, Strank was appointed DBE. In the same year she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. Angela Strank Dame Angela Rosemary Emily Strank (born October 1952) is head of downstream technology and chief scientist of BP, responsible for technology across all the refining, petrochemicals,