Bestway Wholesale has made two further appointments to its senior operations and symbol teams.
Adrian O’Brien, who has worked for Costcutter since 2013, will take up the role of head of symbol at Bestway Retail on a permanent basis after being seconded to this role earlier this year. He began his career at Costcutter over 10 years ago as head of business development in Northern Ireland before becoming regional controller of Northern Ireland, which was subsequently expanded to include Srtpcotland and Northern England.
Adrian will be responsible for the symbol retail estate across Bestway Retail, from a leadership, sales, compliance, and growth perspective.
The other senior appointment is Richard Scrimgeour, formerly of Nisa, joining as central operations director. Richard will succeed Janine Tomkins who is leaving the business for a new role.
He previously worked at Nisa for 19 years, most recently as head of retail operations and prior to that worked at a senior level at Shell UK, Whitbread PLC Punch Taverns and T&S Stores.
His role will involve heading up the central operations team, business support, customer services and communications. Richard will also lead on all major projects involving new store concepts, devising processes and training solutions to enable store teams to deliver world class retail operations.
Mike Hollis, retail director at Bestway said: “Richard will a play an integral role within the team on the development and launch of our new store concepts being rolled out across the business.
“It’s with great pleasure to announce the promotion of Adrian as head of symbol, we know that he will continue to build on the strong relationships within his team to help grow the business of our symbol retailers even further.
“Richard and Adrian assume responsibility of these roles at an exciting time as we strengthen our strategic positioning in the market as enter a new era to cement our position as ‘home of choice for entrepreneurial retailers’.”
Earlier this month (October 2022), Bestway made three appointments to its trading team.
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