Consignia chairman denies new chief will be poached from Asda
Allan Leighton, chairman of Consignia, has quashed spec ulation that the next chief executive of the mail operator would come from Asda, the food and clothing retailer, saying it “would not be professional” to poach staff from the company he once ran.
The company also disclosed yesterday that the Consignia name would be consigned to history on Monday to adopt the more familiar tag of Royal Mail Group.
Mr Leighton said he was considering a shortlist of six to fill the post of John Roberts, who will leave at the end of the year.
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