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Parfetts announces new trading director

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Parfetts has announced that Cheryl Hope is joining the employee-owned business as trading director. She joins the business from Unitas, where she led the trading team for three years. Hope will report to the joint managing directors, Noel Robinson and Guy Swindell. She brings a…

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