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...The process to appoint White started in November 2018; she succeeded Sir Charlie Mayfield, who was chair from 2007 until 2020....
...If Dame Sharon White had already made her mind up about stepping down as chair of John Lewis and Waitrose last month, it did not show....
...as legacy issues such as overexpansion under her predecessor, Sir Charlie Mayfield....
...The cuts relate to a pre-pandemic £100m cost-saving plan that was announced by Dame Sharon’s predecessor, Charlie Mayfield, in October 2019....
...Charlie Mayfield, in November last year....
...By the standards of other heads of national institutions in existential crisis, it looks like Sharon White, the new chair of John Lewis, has it easy....
...In October, her predecessor Charlie Mayfield unveiled a restructuring designed to take £100m of costs out of the business and unify the management of Waitrose and John Lewis....
...Last October, outgoing chair Charlie Mayfield instigated a restructuring that swept away the relative autonomy of the department stores and supermarkets in favour of unified management, in a bid to save...
...Charlie Mayfield, chairman, repeatedly refused to deny that Ms Nickolds was ousted. She has spent her entire career at John Lewis and held her current role since 2016....
...According to a person briefed on the announcement, new chair Sharon White plans to install de facto heads of both Waitrose and John Lewis, although they may not have the managing director titles....
...Dame Sharon — she appeared in the New Year honours list — has been working closely with her predecessor Charlie Mayfield since her appointment was announced....
...Change is undoubtedly needed in the department store business where outgoing chairman Charlie Mayfield admits peak discounting periods are a problem....
...“Sharon White is a highly capable individual....
...The changes will come into effect in early February 2020, shortly after Sir Charlie’s replacement, Sharon White, takes over as chairman....
...In dealing with them their new leader, Sharon White, who will take over from Charlie Mayfield as chairman next year, faces a political challenge as delicate as any she encountered during her four years as...
...Charlie Mayfield, the partnership’s outgoing chairman, said that “should the UK leave the EU without a deal, we expect the effect to be significant and it will not be possible to mitigate that impact”....
...Sharon White, an economist and the current head of telecoms regulator Ofcom, will replace Sir Charlie in February....
...Sir Charlie hasn’t waited for the arrival in February of his successor Sharon White, currently head of Ofcom....
...John Lewis’s announcement that telecoms regulator Sharon White will succeed outgoing chairman Sir Charlie Mayfield included comments from them both....
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