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country. Andrea says she has been looking for external governance experience and the Future Directors programme offered excellent opportunities.
Lance Spalding is the new General Manager at Auckland aluminium
window and door system manufacturer WindowMakers, New Zealand’s largest fabricator for the First Windows & Doors brand. Lance has spent the last six years at Mitre 10 Support Office as Regional, Group and latterly National Manager Trade & Commercial, before which he was Business Manager of Fletcher Building’s PinkFit Pink Batts installation network.
Haylee Taylor is Steelfort’s new National Sales & Marketing Manager, who comes armed to her new role with experience in developing and delivering successful marketing, sponsorship, sales, and communications strategies.
Haylee was Sales & Marketing Manager for Palmerston North City Council
for the last almost 10 years, prior to which she had a co-ordination role at the Rugby World Cup 2011. Haylee’s CV also includes a Massey University Double Major Degree in Marketing Communications & Sport Business Management.
Luke Turner has been promoted to the role of National Operations Manager at BuildLink Group. Having joined the brand in November 2021 as National Systems Coordinator, Luke was previously with Grove Mitre 10 at Mitre 10 Browns Bay and Mitre 10 Glenfield.
Staying with BuildLink, Jacqi Taumatauka has joined the Support Office team as Office Administrator having spent the last five and a half years as Commercial Finance Administrator of Constellation Brands.
Peter Webster has been announced
as Chief People Officer at Riviera Hardware Holdings. An experienced General Manager with a history in retail, tourism and hospitality, Peter’s previous roles include being a member of the leadership team at food and hospitality support services company Compass Group New Zealand 2019-2022 and being General Manager of Columbus Coffee 2013-2019.
Sarah Wiblin has left Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts after 10
and a half years to become General Manager of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. Sara was LVL Sales & Marketing Manager for Futurebuild / Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts until September this year, prior to which she was the wood giant’s National Marketing Manager and Product Manager before that.
hard news
Milestone reached in Mitre 10’s digital transformation
Mitre 10 stores will have begun planning
in earnest towards the implementation of highly anticipated new back-end systems with the co-op having now successfully migrated the first of its centralised business functions to SAP
Billed as the first major operational efficiency improvement and laying the foundation for the co-op’s longer-term
Mitre 10 MEGA Albany is extending its work on digital systems with new kiosks to aid consumers in locating products.
strategy, this milestone signals the beginning of trials towards the broader program roll-out.
Peter Muggleston, the co-op’s
Chief Digital Officer, says: “It’s the first technology deployment in our multi-year transformation programme which will see the co-operative running on integrated systems, streamlining operations and enabling our five-year strategy centred around customer experience.”
In related news, along with the installation of the first Columbus Coffee vending machine, one of the latest initiatives at Riviera Hardware Holdings’ Mitre 10 MEGA Albany store is a kiosk designed to help customers locate products on the shelf at the touch of a button.
You will recall that Mitre 10 MEGA Albany last year was the first to install new generation electronic ticketing systems and will have been looking forward eagerly to making more of its investment with the go-live of the new SAP systems.
Now, Mitre 10 MEGA Dunedin has joined a growing number of stores installing e-labelling with system supplier ESL, who reports the project was “A challenging couple of weeks but with great teamwork all challenges were overcome!”
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Mitre 10 NZ GM Transformation Janine Pretty and Chief Digital Officer Peter Muggleston celebrate the successfully deployment of the first milestone in the co-op’s transformation programme!
New e-labelling at Mitre 10 MEGA Dunedin.
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