Matthew Bruno, Clemency Yates…all the latest People Moves


Matthew Bruno has been appointed fresh produce buyer at regional retailer Booths. Bruno moves from Morrisons’ fresh foods trading department, where he was responsible for continental meats, pate and olives, eggs, fresh and frozen ethnic. In his new role he will look after the buying of tomatoes, mushrooms, salads, vegetables and root vegetables.


Tesco has appointed Clemency Yates as its new technical manager for Beers, Wines and Spirits. Yates joins Tesco from HwCg, where she has been a winemaker for the last two years. She takes up her new role in January.

LMG, the company that operates Nectar, has announced the management team for its new Insight and Communication business. The team is: Tim Collins, commercial director retail; David Buckingham, commercial director FMCG; Mike Poyser, solutions director; Andrew Corroll, analytics director.

Tissue supplier SCA has appointed Chris Bartlett to the role of marketing director UK and Ireland. He was previously with Princes Foods. The move follows the recent transfer of Procter & Gamble’s UK tissue operations to SCA, which sees the addition of the Charmin, Bounty and Tempo brands to SCA’s portfolio, already including Velvet and Handy Andies.

Spadel UK, producer of Brecon Carreg mineral water and Belgian water SPA, has made two new appointments. David Stockley becomes UK commercial manager, while Richard Cook has been promoted to national sales manager. Cook, formerly trade sector manager for retail and food service, will be responsible for a team of five account and regional sales managers and continue to support relationships with key accounts such as Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose.

Drinks distributor InterContinental Brands has appointed Andy Nash as non-executive chairman. In the past, Nash has worked with companies including Taunton Cider and Merrydown.

Surrey-based New England Seafood has made two appointments to its technical team. Ian Schmid has joined as factory technical manager and Dr Melanie Edinburgh as technical manager, supply base.

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