Bakery firm Premier Foods has welcomed a new chairman and a new CEO.
The company - which employs more than 500 people at its Stoke-on-Trent factory - has welcomed Colin Day as non-executive chairman and UK managing director Alex Whitehouse as chief executive officer and member of the board.
Both are permanent appointments and effective from today.
Having been CFO for six years, and acting CEO for the past seven months, Alastair Murray has agreed with the board to leave the business and step down also with effect from today.
Duncan Leggett, group director of financial control and corporate development, will become acting chief financial officer pending a permanent appointment.
Richard Hodgson, senior independent director said: "I am delighted that Colin Day is joining the company as chairman, a role to which he will bring extensive experience at a pivotal time in the company's history.
"We are also very pleased that Alex Whitehouse, who has led the successful turnaround of our UK business, has accepted the role of Group CEO.
"On behalf of the board I would like to thank Alastair Murray for his outstanding contribution to the business, both as CFO and more latterly as acting CEO, and wish him all the best for the future."
