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Article: Williams' Wholesale Landmark: Landmark's head honcho explains to Beth Phillips how he is rising to the challenges posed by today's wholesale scene.(BIG INTERVIEW)(Martin Williams)(Interview)
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- Grocer
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- September 27, 2008
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As managing director of Landmark Wholesale, Martin Williams has achieved a couple of landmarks of his own lately. As well as celebrating his 50th birthday last month, he last week clocked up 25 years' service at the buying group--not bad for someone who had no intention of staying long when he started out as a fresh-faced assistant buyer back in 1983.
"When I joined, I never thought I'd end up as managing director," he laughs in an exclusive interview with The Grocer at Landmark's Milton Keynes head office. "I've always wanted to do well but I never had plans to work my way to the top."
Work his way up he did, however. And unlike Luton Town Football Club, which he has ...