All People articles – Page 357
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Hughes to head up global marketing for Mars cat brands
Mars has named Fiona Hughes its new global pet care marketing director for cat brands including Whiskas and Sheba.Hughes, who takes up the newly created role from 2 November, will be based in Mars' Brussels office and will focus on...
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Other Movers 19/9/09
Lees Foods chairman and CEO Raymond Miquel who stepped in to rescue the business in 1993 when it was close to bankruptcy has left the company. Lees said a new board structure would be announced later this month.
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Price fighter
Darren Blackhurst doesn't care if her attracts criticism as long as shoppers get low prices, he tells Chloe Ryan
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Diageo rejects Scots plans to stem job cuts
Diageo has rejected an alternative restructuring plan drafted by the Scottish government to save 900 jobs threatened by Diageo's own proposals.The Taskforce plan was not viable and would make the business inefficient, Diageo said, adding...
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Tesco veteran takes up chief exec role at Tulip
Former Tesco executive Steve Murrells has been appointed to the new role of UK chief executive for Danish meat giant Tulip.Murrells, who left Tesco after Christmas having overseen the integration of garden centre chain Dobbies, takes up...
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Careers File: Retailers can benefit from job malaise to lure top graduates
Tesco can expect to be flooded by applications from nervous graduates and undergraduates this month as entry for its 2010 scheme opens.
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2 Sisters says suspensions not related to racist abuse
Chicken supplier 2 Sisters has hit back at "misleading and inaccurate" claims by union Unite over its handling of a worker dispute.Unite claimed 2 Sisters had suspended employees last week for staging a sit-in protest to defend their...
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Other Movers 12/9/09
Richard Greenhalgh has announced his retirement as chairman of farmer-owned co-op First Milk. He will depart at the agm on 29 October. Last week The Grocer reported that Robert Shearlaw had quit as vice chairman.
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Tesco Telecoms adds 100 jobs in Liverpool
Tesco has announced the creation of 100 new jobs in Liverpool with a new customer service hub for its phone and broadband business.
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On the Crest of a wave
The Kiwis don't like him much, but closer to home Mark Allen is something of a dairy hero. Michael Barker reports
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: Business knows best how to invest in training
Training is for dogs, I was once told. Sounds a bit drastic? Especially when the person that said it was someone I would have described as a trainer.
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Curley’s staff join Belfast Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury's opened its largest supermarket in Northern Ireland this week, a 69,000 sq ft store at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The superstore is on the site of a former Curley's supermarket, and many of the 250 Curley's staff have...
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Evans steps in as Amin moves up
Richard Evans has been named PepsiCo UK and Ireland president after Salman Amin was promoted to executive vice-president of sales and marketing, based in New York.Evans has been general manager of Walkers Snack Foods since 2007 and at...
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Tesco to outsource buying admin roles to India office
Tesco is consulting with staff on proposals to outsource some buying administration roles to India. In an email seen by The Grocer, David Chamberlain, Tesco's business change manager, said he was exploring "transitioning some of the...
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Arla pay plan prompts threat of strike action
Staff at Arla Foods UK are considering strike action over proposals for a company-wide pay freeze.The Danish dairy giant last month proposed a pay freeze for the 3,000 unionised and non-unionised employees across its UK operation as part...
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Other Movers 5/9/09
Booker CEO Charles Wilson started a one-year term as president of Sweet Charity this week. Wilson, formerly vice-president, replaces Cadbury's sales director Dave Pogson.
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A hard days' night
Supermarket night staff used to work in splendid isolation - but not any longer. In recent years the big four have shaken up their night shifts in a bid to enfranchise workers and boost availability. Chloe Ryan and Joanne Grew joined night workers at Tesco and Asda to see how the changes are going down
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Departure of Cavendish leaves major gap to fill
The imminent departure of Will Cavendish as director of health & wellbeing at the Department of Health has caused doubts over the future direction of the government's health strategy.Cavendish, who was named the top influencer in The...
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Careers File: God leaders don't just shout loudest, they ask the best questions
In any group of people, it never takes long before a natural leader emerges. You only have to watch an episode of Big Brother or...
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Other Movers 29/8/09
Former Sainsbury's non-food trading director Keith Evans is the new CEO of British Retail Consortium Trading. Evans was most recently at DSGi, where he held senior positions including commercial director for Currys.