By BFN News | 07:45 AM | Thursday 18 December, 2014
Crawshaw Group has appointed Noel Collett as chief executive. He is expected to take up his new role on 1 March when he will also be appointed as a director of Crawshaw. Collett joins Crawshaw from Lidl, having spent 16 years with the German Discounter. He has held a number of senior leadership roles in the UK and Germany, and for the last 12 years has served as Lidl's chief operating officer for the UK business. Collett has been widely credited as an instrumental figure in transforming Lidl from a low-cost brand to a high-quality value retailer during a decade of rapid sales growth. He has also been responsible for overseeing the Lidl portfolio growth from 200 stores to over 600 stores generating annual sales of over £4bn, whilst leading an expanding workforce of 14,000 employees. Additionally, Collett was responsible for the roll-out of the improved in-store "fresh concept", which included the fresh meat and poultry range, across all their UK stores. Story provided by StockMarketWire.
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