Appointments: Midlands Engine chairman to leave Burberry; Clearwater appoints Morrisons chairman

Sir John Peace
Fashion retailer Burberry has designs on a new chairman after it assigned responsibility for the search to its senior independent director. Sir John Peace, who is also the chairman of the Midlands Engine, has headed the luxury brand since 2002 when it split from GUS, where he was then chief executive. In a statement to the stock market, the FTSE 100 company said: "It will be the responsibility of Jeremy Darroch as the newly appointed SID to lead the process of appointing a successor to Sir John Peace.  It is anticipated that a ... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
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