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New executive management structure at JCB
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JCB has today announced that Chief Executive Officer Matthew Taylor has decided to leave the company at the end of the year to pursue other opportunities to be announced in the New Year.
Alan Blake becomes Chief Executive Officer on 1st of January 2010 reporting to JCB Chairman, Sir Anthony Bamford. Alan is currently Chief Operating Officer and has been a senior director at JCB for twenty years. A new structure has been put in place to promote the next generation of executive management, with Tim Burnhope (44) becoming Group Managing Director for Product Development and Commercial Operations and Graeme Macdonald (41) becoming Group Managing Director, Business Operations.
David Bell, who is currently Managing Director of JCB Sales, becomes Chief Development Officer with particular responsibility for JCB’s future development in China and Brazil, where the company has plants. David Miller remains in post as Chief Financial Officer.
Sir Anthony Bamford commented: “Tim Burnhope and Graeme Macdonald are taking on exciting new roles within the business and they will benefit greatly from the vast experience of Alan Blake, David Miller and David Bell. I am confident this new structure will strengthen JCB’s reputation as a leading customer-focused, innovative and cost-competitive business. I want to also thank Matthew for his valuable contribution to JCB and wish him every success in the future.”
ENDS
Editor’s notes:
JCB has 18 manufacturing facilities on four continents: 11 in the UK, three in India and others in the USA, China, Germany and Brazil. The company employs around 7,000 people worldwide.
JCB celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2005. The company is privately owned by the Bamford family. Its chairman, Sir Anthony Bamford, is the son of the company’s late founder, Joseph Cyril Bamford.
JCB manufactures more than 300 different products including: backhoe loaders, Loadall telescopic handlers, tracked and wheeled excavators, wheeled loading shovels, articulated dump trucks, rough terrain fork lifts, mini excavators, skid steers loaders and JCB Vibromax compaction equipment. For agricultural markets, the company produces a range of telescopic handlers and the unique Fastrac tractor. JCB also manufactures the Teletruk forklift for the industrial sector.
JCB has won more than 50 major awards for engineering excellence, export, design, marketing, management and for environmental care. These include 25 Queen’s Awards honouring export and technological achievement.
Caption: Alan Blake, who becomes JCB Chief Executive Officer on 1st of January 2010.