Squire's reshuffles garden centre management
Published: 21 January 2014
Squire's Garden Centres have announced a number of personnel changes throughout the business.
Anne Dedman has been promoted to garden centre manager at Cobham, having been with Squire's as an assistant manager for three years. Matt Tanner has been promoted to assistant garden centre manager at Cobham.
Will Kingham also makes the step up to garden centre manager at Milford, having spent five years as assistant manager at Badshot Lea. And George Bishop joins him at the new Squire's at Secretts in Milford as assistant manager, moving from the same position at Woking.
Garden centre manager Ian Wright moves from West Horsley to Long Ditton, Ricky Bowness moves from garden centre manager at Woking to take on West Horsley and Paul Young moves from centre manager at Milford to take charge at Woking.
Ed Ridgeon, assistant manager, moves to Badshot Lea from the same position in Twickenham, assistant manager Barry Cole moves from Shepperton to Windsor and Sue Moscrop moves to assistant manager at Woking from Windsor.
In addition to these internal moves Squire's also has four new members of staff. Chris Dartnell has been appointed garden centre manager at Washington, having moved from The Garden Centre Group. A number of assistant mangers have also been appointed: John O'Connor at Twickenham, Nic Hardy at Crawley and Kevin Henson at Shepperton.
Squire's restaurants have also seen a number of management changes over recent months, with Wayne Samms having moved over to manage the restaurant at Long Ditton from Twickenham, Sam Reast moving to Hersham from Long Ditton, and Stephanie Cole from Hersham to the recently-refurbished Café Bar at Twickenham.
The picture shows, from left, Ian Wright, Paul Young, managing director Dennis Espley, Ricky Bowness, Anne Dedman, deputy chairman Sarah Squire , Chris Dartnell, Will Kingham and operations manager Andy Bunt.