Managing a change of leadership across a number of sites within a larger group and incorporating a sizeable staff requires a deft touch and careful planning. In June this year global packaging business, VPK Packaging Group announced the appointment of a new group managing director for its UK-based corrugated division, Rigid Containers. Its outgoing managing director, Richard Coward, who'd held the reins for 11 years, steering the business through choppy economic waters to growth and even expansion into Ireland, had earlier in the year decided it was time to step away from business and fulfil some long-awaited personal challenges. But filling a post of such seniority even in a small company, let alone one that turns over ￡136m and employs more than 700 staff, is no insignificant task and both Coward and the bosses at Belgian-headquarted parent firm VPK were keenly aware of that.
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