Travis Perkins makes management appointments

Travis Perkins plc has made appointments to its senior management team following the integration of the BSS businesses and the establishment of a new divisional structure.

The new structure, reporting through John Carter, the group chief operating officer, is effective from January 1. It comprises General Merchanting, incorporating the four regional Travis Perkins businesses; Specialist Merchanting, covering Keyline, CCF, Benchmarx and associate merchant Rinus Roofing; Plumbing & Heating, comprising the ex-BSS businesses of BSS Industrial, PTS, Direct Heating Spares, together with City Plumbing Supplies and City Heating Spares; and Consumer, which includes Wickes, Tile Giant and the multi-channel business ToolStation.

The two remaining ex-BSS Group businesses, Birchwood Price Tools and F&P Wholesale, will report through the Commercial and Supply Chain functions and for external reporting purposes they will be part of the Plumbing & Heating Division results.

Norman Bell is being promoted to a new role of group development director, following his running of the BSS integration project alongside John Carter. Paul Tallentire, who recently joined the group, is appointed as divisional chairman of the Plumbing and Heating division. Ian Church, who has led the Travis Perkins business in the Midlands for the last seven years, becomes managing director of PTS.

Jeremy Bird is promoted to the new role of divisional chairman for the Consumer division. Simon King, an experienced retail executive from Safeway (now Morrisons) and Tesco, and who was most recently chief operations officer at Asda, joins the group as managing director of Wickes.

Joe Mescall and Arthur Davidson continue to as divisional xhairmen of General Merchanting and Specialist Merchanting respectively.

Kieran Griffin, a former Keyline and Travis Perkins manager and regional director who enjoyed success in his first managing director's role at CCF, is promoted to managing director of Travis Perkins Midlands.

Howard Luft, until recently managing director of Buck & Hickman and responsible for the sale of that business, rejoins the group to become managing director of CCF.