Following the sale of Spicers U.K. and Ireland to Better Capital, the wholesaler has announced a new structure to be implemented with immediate effect.

The UKIMT board has been disbanded and replaced by a Strategic Leadership Team. The team along with Sarah Jones, CFO, will support the business in delivering at pace its objectives and goals.

- Tom Rodda becomes Sales & Marketing Director with Jeanette Bresitz  and her team reporting to him.

- Shirley Irons takes responsibility for all UK & Ireland HR activities as HR Director.

- Siobhan O’Connor will continue as Managing Director Ireland.

- Greg Pritchett takes responsibility for all procurement, catalogue production, pricing and data under the new title of Commercial Director.

- David Molyneux will report to Sarah Jones as Director of Inventory ensuring availability and stock is optimised.

- Mark O’Neill will drive service and efficiency improvements looking after Customer Services, Warehousing and Transport as Operations Director.

- Mary Curtis recently is Director of I.T. has responsibility for all functionality and development of the I.T. infrastructure.

CEO Alan Ball commented: “Spicers has driven change and innovation through the sector in the last twelve months and as the leading Wholesaler it is responsibility to continually challenge and exceed expectations; particularly under our new ownership. Communication flow is a fundamental enabler of change and to that end the structure I have implemented gives ownership for each discipline to own and share information across all of our stakeholders.”