All People articles – Page 437
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Discovery picks Peck in push to be top Mexican brand
Discovery Foods has appointed Tesco veteran Andrew Peck to the position of sales director as the company steps up its efforts to replace Old El Paso as the UK’s number one Mexican food brand. Peck joins Discovery Foods after a 21-year career at…
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Gorgeous no more: Paskins moves on
David Paskins is the new senior brand manager at Bacardi-Martini UK. He joins the company on 20 October from drinks industry consultancy The Gorgeous Group, where he was director. “In these days of consolidation and corporate ownership within the...
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Cadbury CFO quits for car company
Cadbury has announced the departure of its chief financial officer, Ken Hanna. Hanna is leaving the confectionery giant after five years to become chairman of FTSE 250-listed car retailer Inchcape from May next year.
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Dairy Crest hires Rotten to sex up its Country Life
In what must go down as one of the most unlikely campaigns in advertising history, Dairy Crest has recruited former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon to be the new face of relaunched Country Life. From October 1, Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, will front a...
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Nicholas steps down from Tate & Lyle job
Tate & Lyle has announced that its group finance director John Nicholas, is to leave after just two years, as the company struggles with a dramatic rise in debt. Nicholas is to step down this week by mutual agreement. Director of investor relations...
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Williams’ wholesale Landmark
Landmark’s head honcho explains to Beth Phillips how he is rising to the challenges posed by today’s wholesale scene
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Ex-Asda chief Leighton ends Royal Mail tenure
Allan Leighton, the former boss of supermarket giant Asda, is to step down from his role as chairman of Royal Mail next year. Leighton, who headed Asda as chief executive during the 1990s alongside former chairman Archie Norman, will stand down from his current role by March.
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Other Movers 20/9/2008
Sainsbury's plans to recruit 12,000 temporary staff to work in its stores over the Christmas period. Each of its 823 stores will employ between 10 and 40 staff from mid-November to January for...
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Careers File: Don’t be shocked if bright young things put global warming before salary
Wherever you are today – at work, at home or online – it seems you can’t escape green messages. Global warming, carbon footprint...
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Boycott says the deadline’s up for ‘immoral’ food waste
London’s food tsar tells Nick Hughes how she is going to campaign against the bad old ways and get the city digging for victory with local produce
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Pramanik takes helm of Imperial Tobacco in UK
Imperial Tobacco has appointed Amal Pramanik to the role of general manager for the UK. He replaces Peter Richards, who has been promoted to Western European regional director for Imperial Tobacco. Pramanik believes his previous role as general...
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Tate & Lyle stays positive as FD hunt begins
Tate & Lyle has said it expects first-half profits to be in line with earlier predictions despite tough market conditions and soaring energy costs in the UK and abroad. Tate & Lyle said that despite “[operating] in a very difficult market while surplus stock is absorbed against a backdrop of reducing institutional prices” it was confident “market equilibrium between supply and demand for EU sugar [would] be restored”.
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Other movers 13/9/2008
Cadbury has announced that Sanjiv Ahuja and Ellen Marram are to retire from its board at the end of the month. The board said it was grateful to both for assisting in overseeing the completion of the demerger of the beverage business prior to...
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Profiles
Careers File: When the bar keeps rising, marketing anything below the best gets even harder
If someone offered you an unbelievable experience on the all-new A380 in return for £50,000 you’d probably tell them to take a hike. However, the A380 in question isn’t the infamous trunk road in Devon but rather the new jumbo aircraft introduced by Singapore Airlines late last year. It’s not ...
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Dobbie swaps top job at Délifrance UK for British Bakels
Baking ingredients supplier British Bakels has appointed Ian Dobbie as managing director. He will join the business at the start of October as MD designate, before taking over the full position on 1 January 2009. Dobbie joins the company from frozen...
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Thorntons snaps up master chocolatier
Thorntons has appointed Keith Hurdman as master chocolatier in a move to modernise the specialist chocolate retailer’s image. Hurdman joins from Melt Chocolates, where he has been master chocolatier for two years. He has more than 25 years’...
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Recession raises spectre of Christmas jobs freeze
Fears are mounting that grocery retailers will have to dramatically scale back on the usual temporary staff recruitment drive this Christmas as the economy dips into recession. This week, a Manpower survey revealed that 13% of retailers expected to...
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Netto’s top dog
The credit crunch is doing Netto more than a few favours, as its British boss Richard Lancaster tells Peter Cripps in the latest Big Interview
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Brooks bows out from Finsbury after six years
Finsbury Food Group will undergo a management reshuffle at the end of the month following the unexpected departure of its chief executive, Dave Brooks. Brooks, who has been at the helm of the cake and bread manufacturer since 2002, will leave on...