"The Entertainer Strengthens Board".Business Editors AMERSHAM, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2002 The Entertainer, the UK's largest independent toy retailer, is proud to announce the appointment of two new directors to the Board. Founding Directors, Gary and Catherine Grant have chosen to strengthen the board to create a cornerstone of expertise that will facilitate further growth and expansion at the already fast growing toy chain. Joining the team are: - Mark Dixon Mark Dixon (born November 26, 1970) is a former NFL offensive guard who played five seasons with the Miami Dolphins. Previously he had played in the CFL with the Montreal Alouettes. He was an All-American at Virginia. Prior to Virgina, Dixon attended Lucy C. - Buying & Marketing Director. Mark joined the Entertainer two years ago from Woolworths where he was head of the Toys and Stationery Strategic Business Unit. With over 20 years experience within the Toy industry, his previous positions include Marketing Director of Waddingtons games, a variety of senior purchasing roles within both Toys R Us and Argos and Vice Chairman of the British Association of Toy Retailers The British Association of Toy Retailers (BATR) is an association that represents their members to the United Kingdom government and the European Commission. It promotes the role of the toy retailer and the value of toys to the consumer. It represents about 75% of the toy trade. . " I am delighted to be joining the Board of what is undoubtedly one of the most dynamic and progressive retailers within the UK today " Mark Dixon - Mike Thompson For other persons named Mike Thompson, see Mike Thompson (disambiguation). C. Michael Thompson (born January 24, 1951), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing California's At-large - Operations Director Formerly Managing Director of The Good Brand Works, a social business consultancy, whose clients have included Nestle, Kraft Hungary, Danone Hungary, Centrica / British Gas British Gas is the name of several companies
"I am pleased to be joining such an energetic, values-led business. I will be supporting The Entertainer people in gearing up business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets to implement it's five-year expansion plans which began this year." Mike Thompson In the last two years The Entertainer has grown from strength to strength with the addition of 10 new retail sites and the construction of a `state of the art' purpose built warehouse and distribution centre. The Entertainer is planning to increase the growth momentum over the next five years by leveraging its points of difference and its store expansion programme. "Cath and I welcome Mike and Mark as fellow Directors. Both bring a wealth of skills and talents that will allow us to fully implement our ambitious and exciting five-year plan Five-Year Plan, Soviet economic practice of planning to augment agricultural and industrial output by designated quotas for a limited period of usually five years. " Gary Grant Gary Grant (born April 21 1965 in Canton, Ohio) is a retired American professional basketball point guard in the NBA. Gary "The General" Grant played for Canton McKinley High School and collegiately at the University of Michigan and was selected in the 1988 NBA Draft by the , Managing Director, The Entertainer. The Entertainer, headquartered in Amersham in Buckinghamshire, is The UK's largest independent toy retailer with 32 stores nationwide. Each branch of The Entertainer is totally dedicated to toys and is home to over 6000 products. The Entertainer also operates an award winning e-commerce web-site and home shopping Home Shopping commonly refers to the electronic retailing / home shopping channels industry, which includes such billion dollar companies as HSN, QVC, eBay, ShopNBC, Buy.com, and Amazon.com. division. Web: thetoyshop.com |
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