All People articles – Page 390
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Giant killer
Straight-talking retail anthropologist Paco Underhill gives a frank appraisal of the UK grocery market to Liz Hamso
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Careers File: Feeling down? Find out what the problem is, then discover how to solve it
The media has been more interested in the subject of happiness than usual this summer. Perhaps they see it as an antidote to...
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Alternative CV: Kelly Eastwood, marketing controller, Greencore Frozen
Who was your first teenage crush and why? I started young – it was Luke Skywalker when I was about nine because I wanted to be Princess Leia.
When was the first time you got drunk? I was 14 and I drank a bottle of Thunderbird fortified wine. -
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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...
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Lightbody takes top role at Finsbury
Premium cake maker Finsbury Food Group has announced a series of changes to its senior management, with chief executive Dave Brooks set to hand over the reins later this month.
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Duvel picks Willson to be UK manager
Duvel Moortgat, the Belgian blond beer stocked by the big four multiples, has appointed Matthew Willson as its general manager for the UK. Willson, who has spent the past 11 years with Coors Brewers, will be responsible for developing on and...
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Malcolm set to replace Walker as CJ Lang MD
Scott Malcolm is to become the managing director of C J Lang & Son, Scotland’s largest independent retailing and distribution company, at the start of November. He will take the reins from current chief executive David Walker, who is to retire. In a...
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All change as Greenvale restructures
Greenvale AP, the UK’s leading supplier of potatoes, has appointed Brian Macdonald as its new financial director. Macdonald, who has worked for brewer Scottish & Newcastle for 25 years, most recently as finance director for developing markets, also...
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Him!’s Chisholm takes David Sands COO role
Scottish independent chain David Sands has poached Him! director Ewen Chisholm as part of a major expansion plan that could double the size of the business. Chisholm will join next month as chief operating officer overseeing the day-to-day running...
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Johnson hired to focus on Woolworths future
Struggling Woolworths has appointed another Asda man. Former marketing director Steve Johnson will take up the reins as its chief executive on 1 September, replacing Trevor Bish-Jones who had been in the post for six years. One of the toughest jobs...