Harding+
Simon Luscombe is a seasoned financial executive with extensive experience in leadership roles across various companies. Currently serving as Chief Financial Officer at Harding+ since 2025, Simon previously held the CFO position at Homebase from January 2017 to March 2025, where responsibilities included stabilizing and refinancing the business after challenging trading years. During Simon's tenure at Homebase, there was a promotion to Finance Director, collaborating closely with senior leadership to enhance performance and successfully overseeing the finance team during the integration of Bunnings into the UK and Ireland markets. Earlier in the career, Simon contributed to Hobbs London from July 2007 to January 2017 as Trading Director and later rose to Group Finance Director. Initial experience included roles as Head of Finance at Chantrey Vellacott DFK and Audit Supervisor. Simon holds a degree in Economics and Statistics from UCL, completed in 2002.
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Harding+
We are the cruise industry’s first choice retail partner, and holder of the ‘Cruise Retailer of the Year’ title for the last 2 years from the DFNI Frontier Awards. Our purpose lies in making every cruise better, from a specialist understanding of guest dwell time and how to work with it, to unparalleled levels of data and insights gathered from ships across the globe, best in class marketing and merchandising skills, and a global logistics model that means we literally never miss the boat. We are champions of sustainability, pursuing BCorp status and investing in significant carbon reduction and efficiency projects across our business. Everything is underpinned by our ‘Quaternity’ model, which is our partnership between cruise line partners, brand partners, guest insights and our Harding+ expertise to ensure every ship’s retail model is bespoke, relevant and designed to land impact and success for all parties. With central hubs in Bristol, Miami and Sydney we enable a collaborative approach like no other. We currently work with 16 cruise brand partners across the globe, including more than 90 cruise ships and 300+ forward-thinking shops on board. We employ over 200 team members landside and over 1,200 shipboard, meaning we can justifiably champion our status as diversity and inclusion champions, helping to live the “+” in our name at all touchpoints of how we operate.