All People articles – Page 433
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Tesco Express exec joins Musgrave GB
Willie Hamilton has joined Musgrave Retail Partners GB as trading director.
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Other Movers 20/12/08
Unilever has confirmed Paul Polman will officially take up the role of chief executive officer on 1 January. Outgoing CEO Patrick Cescau retires from Unilever on 31 December. l Improve, the food and drink sector skills council, has appointed...
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Kettle Produce to axe 100 jobs as loss looms
Kettle Produce is to cut 100 jobs and has warned it is likely to post a loss in its full-year results.The company, one of the largest UK suppliers of prepared vegetables to the multiples, said it was axing 100 of its 950 staff on the back of...
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Job losses to hit 200 in Brakes efficiency drive
Brakes is to make a fresh round of redundancies as part of an ongoing cost-saving drive. By the end of January, 200 staff would have been laid off since October, confirmed CEO, Frank McKay.
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Alternative CV: Father Christmas, chief operating officer, Lapland Gift Solutions Inc
What's your nickname? The elves started calling me Captain Birdseye a few years ago and it's stuck. In Japan they call me Annual Gift Man.
Who was your first teenage crush and why? I always fancied the Tooth Fairy until she hooked up with that Easter Bunny idiot. But anyone in stockings is good with me. -
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Careers File: Christmas without Woolies is sad but it's best staff can take heart
News of Woolworths' demise is made more poignant by its timing, finds Sian Harrington
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UK drinks industry hit by first wave of job cuts
The drinks industry was reeling this week after three of its biggest hitters announced 100 job losses and a further 49 potential losses as a result of the economic downturn. Constellation Brands has cut 50 jobs across its UK operations,...
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Hopson joins Pets at Home
Former Asda retail director Sally Hopson has joined Pets at Home as customer and people director. Hopson left Asda two months ago after 14 years with the retailer in senior roles including marketing operations director. Asda said it...
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Cadbury unveils new finance chief
Cadbury has named Andrew Bonfield as its new chief financial officer. Bonfield, who joins the confectionery giant on 1 February, was previously finance chief at pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb and has also held senior roles at BG Group and the pre-merger SmithKline Beecham.
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Other Movers 13/12/08
Woolworths has made 450 head office and support staff redundant in London and Rochdale. The job losses are the first since the high street giant slumped into administration two weeks ago. Diana Houghton has joined Thorntons' board of...
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DCS Manufacturing to employ 50 new staff
Specialist health and beauty products wholesaler DCS Europe is to create 50 jobs when it moves its manufacturing arm to a new factory three times bigger than its existing plant.DCS Manufacturing is due to have closed its site in...
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Buffin steps up within Groupe Aeroplan
Groupe Aeroplan, the company behind the Nectar reward scheme used by Sainsbury's, has appointed Tony Buffin to the new role of executive vice president and managing director. Buffin will be responsible for business units managed out of the group’s...
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Careers File: Let's all work hard to see off recession by exploiting every possible opportunity
Guy Moreton says we should all do our bit to stave off a long-term slump
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Tudhope appointed Cafédirect chairman
Fairtrade hot drinks company, Cafédirect, has appointed Geoff Tudhope as its new chairman.Tudhope is a business mentor for Merryck & Co, where he advises chief executive officers in the FTSE 500. He was previously a non-executive director at...
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BP convenience queen to join Asda in new year
Convenience store expert Karen Hubbard has been appointed operations director at Asda, responsible for overseeing the retailer's smaller stores.Hubbard left BP last month after almost five years as UK convenience retail director running all...
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Davis promoted to become PZ Cussons' commercial director
PZ Cussons' regional director of Africa, Chris Davis, has been promoted to the newly created role of commercial director as part of a major senior management restructure. In his new role, Davis will oversee operational running of the health...
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New commercial director for on-course PZ Cussons
Imperial Leather maker PZ Cussons has named a new commercial director after announcing its first-half performance was in line with expectations.
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Other Movers 6/12/08
Dr Trefor Campbell has stepped down as non-executive chairman of poultry and food processor Moy Park. He was MD until January and became chairman to help bed in replacement Nigel Dunlop. His "inspired stewardship" over 30 years would be remembered...
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Careers File: Don't be wary of asking for help - the recipient is even more wary of saying 'no'
One interesting part of working with psychology students at Newcastle University is helping them overcome their fear of asking for help. As infants, the word 'no' is one of the first we learn to speak. Yet as we get older, it becomes...
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Curry king and Unilever board narrowly escape Taj terrorism
Curry king Sir Gulam Noon has spoken of the horror of being caught up in the terror attacks in Mumbai that left nearly 200 dead, including leading industry figure Andreas Liveras. Sir Gulam had booked a table in the Taj Mahal Palace hotel's...