Later Years
Moores retired as chairman in October 1977 of Littlewoods and was succeeded by his son Peter. However, as profits fell from 49 million to 11 million, (Moores remained on the board) he resumed the chairmanship in November 1980. He gave up this role again in May 1982 and was made life president of the organisation.
Moores remained involved until the end of 1986. His family carried on running Littlewoods but John Clement succeeded Moores as chairman. Moores had two operations straight after each other, on his achilles tendon and then for an enlarged prostate during the summer of 1986, but he never was quite the same again. At the 1987 League Cup final, sponsored by Littlewoods, Moores was the guest of honour. In early 1988, by now mainly in a wheelchair, he was still visiting Littlewoods stores across the UK, but he began to lose his speech shortly afterwards and gave that role up. Moores attended Everton football matches up to a few years before his death.
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