TRANSITIONS.

Paul Allaire, 61, was named chief executive of Stamford, CT-based Xerox, a $19.2 billion document solution provider. Allaire, the company's chairman, returned to the position after the board of directors accepted the resignation of Rick Thoman.

* Robert Annunziata, 52, was named chairman of the board of directors at New York-based PF.Net Communications, a communications services provider. Previously, Annunziata was chief executive of Global Crossing.

* Patrick Blake, 51, was named president and chief executive of Menlo Park, CA-based Consolidated Freightways, a $2.38 billion transportation company. Blake succeeds vice chairman G. Robert Evans, who has served as interim chief executive since W. Roger Curry retired in January.

* Daniel Brewster Jr., 44, was named president and chief executive of New York-based Gruner & Jahr USA Publishing, a unit of the $16 billion German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG. Prior to Gruner & Jahr, Brewster was president and chief executive of American Express Publishing.

* Peter Coors, 53, was named chief executive of Golden, CO-based Adolph Coors, a $2.06 billion brewer. Coors, a fourth-generation executive of the 127-year-old company, succeeds his uncle William Coors, who will remain chairman.

* Jack Drosdick, 56, was named chairman and chief executive of Philadelphia, PA-based Sunoco, a $5.2 billion petroleum refiner and marketer. Drosdick succeeds Robert Campbell, who has retired.

* Robert Eckert, 45, was named chairman and chief executive of EI Segundo, CA-based Mattel, a $1.8 billion toy manufacturer and marketer. Eckert, former president and chief executive of Kraft Foods, replaces Jill Barad, who stepped down after three tumultuous years.

* Rod Eddington, 50, was named chief executive of London, England-based British Airways, a $L8.92 billion international and domestic passenger airline. Prior to British Airways, Eddington was the managing director of Asian airline Cathay Pacific.

* C. Patrick Garner, 52, was named chief executive of Alexandria, VA-based The Motley Fool, a privately held media company. Most recently, Garner was president of the Southeast and West Asia divisions of Coca-Cola.

* Robert Honse, 56, was named president and chief executive effective September 1, of Kansas City, MO-based Farmland Industries, a $10.7 billion farmer-owned cooperative. Current president and chief executive H.D. "Harry" Cleberg, will serve as a consultant to Honse from September 1, 2000 to December 31, 2000.

* James Mullen, 41, was named president and chief executive of Cambridge, MA-based Biogen, a $794.4 million biopharmaceutical company. Mullen succeeds James Vincent, who will remain chairman of the board.

* James Postl, 54, was named president and chief executive of Houston, TX-based Pennzoil-Quaker State, a $3 billion automotive consumer products manufacturer and marketer. Postl succeeds James Pate, who will remain chairman.

* Francis Scricco, 51, was named chief executive of Melville, NY-based Arrow Electronics, an electronic components and computer products distributor with more than $11 billion in revenues. Scricco succeeds Stephen Kaufman, who will remain chairman.

* David Spina, 57, was named chief executive of Boston, MA-based State Street, an investment firm with $6.2 trillion in assets. Spina, the company's president, succeeds Marshall Carter who will remain chairman until his retirement on January 1, 2001.

* Nicholas Teti, 47, was named chief executive of Wilmington, DE-based DuPont Pharmaceuticals, a $1.7 billion drug manufacturer. Teti, the company's president, succeeds Kurt Landgraf, who has resigned.

* Marc van Gelder, 38, was named chief executive of Skokie, IL-based Peapod, a $73 million Internet grocer. Van Gelder replaces Bill Malloy who resigned in March for health reasons.