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Booker reshuffles senior retail leadership team

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Booker, which owns symbol groups Budgens, Premier, Londis and Family Shopper, is making a number of changes to its retail senior leadership team. The wholesaler said today it would combine its teams to have a single dedicated retail sales team, led by Martyn Parkinson. It claimed…

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