Cadbury restructures regional legal teams in wake of management cuts
Cadbury has overhauled its legal team in the wake of an internal restructuring and redundancy programme at the company.The confectionery giant announced last month that it would be making 580 staff redundant, affecting 250 middle management positions worldwide and a further 330 jobs in Australia and New Zealand. As part of the changes the company is also regrouping around seven jurisdictions - up from four - paving the way for the appointment of more regional legal heads.
November 27, 2008 at 12:28 AM
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Confectionery giant shakes up international structure with new regional heads after redundancy round
Cadbury has overhauled its legal team in the wake of an internal restructuring and redundancy programme at the company.
The confectionery giant announced last month that it would be making 580 staff redundant, affecting 250 middle management positions worldwide and a further 330 jobs in Australia and New Zealand.
As part of the changes the company is also regrouping around seven jurisdictions – up from four – paving the way for the appointment of more regional legal heads.
Under the old structure, the Americas group was led by Gary Lyons; the Britain, Ireland, Middle East and Africa (BIMEA) team was headed by Shari Hosaki; with Rod McNeil and Dale Kimball leading the Asia-Pacific and European divisions, respectively.
The new structure sees the Americas group split into North America and South America, with Lyons taking the reins in North America and Darci Bet to lead the South America legal team.
The BIMEA legal group has also been split to see Hosaki heading up the Britain and Ireland team and Supriya Bhandari heading the Middle East and Africa group. Kimball's position for Europe remains unchanged.
The Asia-Pacific division has seen the biggest changes with McNeil departing as the division is split into a number of groups. Karen Perret will lead the legal team in Australia and New Zealand, while all lawyers in the Southeast Asia, India and China groups will report directly to the legal director for global compliance David Foster. A Singapore-based team will be lead by Melissa Harrup.
The secretariat team, led by John Mills, and the global intellectual property team headed by Dan Chung remain unaffected. In total Cadbury has 85 lawyers and around 130 legal staff.
Chief legal officer and group secretary Hank Udow told Legal Week: "The changes made have been pretty significant – roughly 250 roles throughout the organisation have been cut in an effort to remove a layer of management."
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