Bestway Wholesale has made two further appointments to its senior operations and symbol teams.
Adrian O’Brien, who has worked for Costcutter since 2013, will take up the role of Head of Symbol at Bestway Retail on a permanent basis after being seconded to this role earlier this year.
O’Brien, who began his career at Costcutter more than 10 years ago, began as Head of Business Development in Northern Ireland before becoming Regional Controller of Northern Ireland, which was subsequently expanded to include Scotland and Northern England.
He has more than 20 years of experience in the retail industry having begun his career with Palmer and Harvey as a Symbol Manager before moving to Costcutter.
O’brien will head up the Bestway sales team and will be responsible for the Symbol retail estate across Bestway Retail, from a leadership, sales, compliance, and growth perspective.
In addition, Richard Scrimgeour, formerly of Nisa, is joining Bestway Retail as Central Operations Director. He will succeed Janine Tomkins who is leaving the business for a new role.
Scrimgeour worked at Nisa for 19 years, most recently as Head of Retail Operations and prior to that worked at a senior level at Shell UK, Whitbread PLC Punch Taverns, and T&S Stores.
He will head up the central operations team, business support, customer services and communications. Richard will also lead on all major projects involving new store concepts, devising processes and training solutions to enable store teams to deliver world class retail operations.
Mike Hollis, Retail Director at Bestway, said: “Richard and Adrian assume responsibility of these roles at an exciting time as we strengthen our strategic positioning in the market as enter a new era to cement our position as ‘home of choice for entrepreneurial retailers’.”
