ANN CROTTY: Double task for new Spar boss Angelo Swartz
Swartz must perform an impossible balancing act as CEO and chair of the guild
03 August 2023 - 05:00
Mike Bosman has brought much-needed energy to the Spar Group in the comparatively brief seven months since he was appointed executive chair last January. In that time he has managed to calm many of the explosive situations scattered across the group, any one of which could have crippled Spar’s prospects of reclaiming its place as a vibrant operator in the local grocery industry.
Significantly, given the latest appointments, most of those troubling situations related to tensions between Spar and its independent retailers...
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