Movers & Shakers

Three new marketing appointments have been made by Frucor Beverages. In New Zealand, Evangelia Henderson, previously general manager, marketing, has been promoted to the new position of group general manager, marketing. Andrew Fraser, formerly strategic development manager, has been promoted to general manager, marketing New Zealand. Frucor Australia will now have a dedicated national marketing manager with the appointment in Sydney of Justine Cotter, formerly with Frucor sister company Griffins.

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Janice Fredric, a chartered accountant and practice manager with Grant Thornton in Christchurch, has become chairwoman of the Youth Hostels Association board. Margaret Horne has become national IT manager. She was previously southern region IT manager for the Department of Courts.

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Singleton Ogilvy and Mather has appointed Sandy Butler an account director. She will work primarily on the Farmers account. Rebecca Lloyd has become media planner and buyer in the media division, and will work mainly on Sanitarium and American Express accounts.

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Commercial real estate lawyer Greg Towers, a partner at law firm Simpson Grierson, has been appointed chairman for the next year of Lex Mundi, a world association of 160 independent law firms representing more than 14,000 lawyers.

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Paula Daye, the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind's divisional manager adaptive living, has been appointed acting CEO for a six-to-eight-month restructuring period.

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Andrew Myers has joined BMW Group as national sales manager. Kerry Ives has taken the role of events co-ordinator. Formerly with The Body Shop, she is the one external appointment in the recent changes. Mat Spencer, who previously had responsibility for events, now takes over marketing communications. His appointment means Georgina Pellett will take on the role of product manager for the BMW range. Her predecessor in that position, long-time staffer member Peter Jarratt, will manage the Mini range.

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Paul Muckleston, former .NET solutions group manager, is the new small and medium business and home and retail division manager at Microsoft New Zealand.

Tony Ward, former manager .NET enterprise servers and tools, joins the senior management team as .NET and developer group manager.

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Grant Archibald has been appointed senior developer with mobile solutions provider Orbiz. His last position was as a systems developer on contract to British companies.

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Alex Morcom has become medium business marketing manager for Microsoft in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, China, Taiwan, Korea and Thailand.

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Craig Presland has become chief operating officer of healthAlliance, the purchasing company set up to provide economies of scale to Counties Manukau and Waitemata District health boards.

For the past two years he has been commercial director for Fletcher Building's Steel, South American and distribution divisions.

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Mark Spring has been appointed to the new position of general manager, business process outsourcing, at Datamail in Auckland.

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Richard Rowley has been appointed as the senior NZ executive with law firm Phillips Fox.

He was recently chairman of the electricity industry's governance working group involved in the re-organisation of the sector, and is a former general manager of corporate services for United Networks.

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Adrienne Hill has taken over national human resources. She was previously HR manager at Ernst and Young.

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