{"id":9069,"date":"2015-08-24T10:43:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T10:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=9069"},"modified":"2015-08-25T10:14:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T10:14:34","slug":"new-md-at-kingfisher-sets-sights-on-further-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/new-md-at-kingfisher-sets-sights-on-further-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"New MD at Kingfisher sets sights on further growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Claydon-Butler (pictured) joins Kingfisher Lighting, the exterior lighting specialist, as Managing Director and her eyes are firmly fixed on continuing to grow the business by focussing on customer service and product excellence.<\/p>\n

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Coming from a background of consolidating and growing businesses, Chris has a proven track record in technical markets and has worked with a range of customers from some of the world\u2019s biggest blue-chips to independent SMEs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recent boom in lighting and LED technology is the talk of board rooms up and down the country,” said Chris. “Being able to take Kingfisher to the next level in its development against this backdrop is going to be exciting, challenging and rewarding. Kingfisher has the longevity some lighting businesses lack, but with a desire to do things differently and an open mind. In my opinion that\u2019s the perfect reason to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Claydon-Butler (pictured) joins Kingfisher Lighting, the exterior lighting specialist, as Managing Director and her eyes are firmly fixed on continuing to grow the business by focussing on customer service and product excellence. Coming from a background of consolidating and growing businesses, Chris has a proven track record in technical markets and has worked with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[993,994,330],"class_list":["post-9069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-chris-claydon-butler","tag-exterior-lighting","tag-kingfisher-lighting","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Chris-Claydon-Butler.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9078,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069\/revisions\/9078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}