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Article: David Kappler: Chairman, Premier Foods and HMV Group.(Interview)
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- Financial Management (UK)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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The last time we met, you were about to retire. Now you're chairman of two companies in the FTSE 250. Did you get bored?
I wasn't so much retiring as diversifying. I was 57, I'd done nine years as CFO of Cadbury Schweppes and I needed some new challenges. We'd recently acquired the Adams chewing-gum business, which required a lot of interesting work, but I knew it would be hard to find anything to keep the adrenaline pumping after that, because the company had taken on quite a lot of debt to make that transaction. The time was right to take on some non-executive directorships with a range of companies.
You already had experience as a non-executive ...