Kingfisher now has a Chief People Officer

The new leadership team, recently put together by Kingfisher’s CEO Véronique Laury, will be complete as of October. That’s when Emily Lawson will take over the position of Chief People Officer. She was previously group HR Director at Morrisons Supermarkets and a partner in the management consultancy company McKinsey.
These particulars were announced in the British group’s recent half-yearly report. It’s the first interim report under the leadership of Véronique Laury, and bears her hallmark. The report highlights the objective to enforce the “One Kingfisher” plan. The fact that the group language will be English in the future, the specific wish of the French boss, is just a marginal aspect. It is rather more a question of, amongst other things, drastically reducing the number of product items by unifying the product range for all nine operating companies with their different sales divisions.