Container manufacturer Taylor has announced that from tomorrow (1 May), Richard Sanders, former Strategy Director for the John Lewis Partnership and co-founder of Sullivan Street Partners (the investment firm that oversaw the acquisition of Taylor in 2010), will become the firm’s Executive Chairman.
Sanders, who has been a board member since the acquisition, has worked in the manufacturing sector for the past 15 years.
In his role as Executive Chairman, Sanders will work with Julian Gaylor, Taylor’s Sales and Marketing Director, to extend the company’s ‘reach throughout the UK, expand its international presence and forge Sellers Containers’ product portfolio [acquired in 2013] with Taylor, under the new brand, Taylor Containers’.
The move comes ahead of the departure of current Chief Executive Officer David Williams, who is to step down from 30 June 2014.
The company has not stated the reason for Williams’s departure, nor has it yet announced who will be filling the role of CEO once he leaves the company this summer. However, it is expected that this announcement, along with a ‘number of product and service announcements’, will be made ‘over the coming months’.
‘An exciting opportunity to get closer to the company’
Speaking of his appointment, Sanders said: “This is an exciting opportunity to get closer to the company and work alongside its first-class management and executive team as we deliver a series of new products and services over the coming months.
“We will be appointing a new CEO however our priority has been to secure the right person for the role rather than working to a timeframe. We have ambitious plans for growth so it’s important that the new CEO will be able to share this vision as we embark on the next phase of Taylor’s development.”
Julian Gaylor, who re-joined the business in 2012, added: “Taylor is at a crucial stage in its growth plan and with significant market opportunities available to us both at domestic and international level, we are now well-placed to take Taylor to its next stage of development. With Richard’s experience of laying the foundations for growth for SMEs I’m confident that Taylor is about to enter a new era and one that will secure its future for the next fifty years.”
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