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Article: Outlook: Sir Geoff goes
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2002
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IT'S HARD to feel too sorry for Sir Geoff Mulcahy as he sails off
into the sunset with his pounds 700,000-a-year pension safely banked
and paid for. None the less, the manner of his departure from
Kingfisher, the company that has been his life for nearly 20 years,
is a faintly undignified one. No grand retirement parties at
Claridges for Sir Geoff, complete with fawning testimonials, which
was the treatment handed out to Sir Stanley Kalms when he retired
from Dixons last month. Instead, Sir Geoff is being bundled out the
door three months before his successor, Gerry Murphy, is even in
place, this to stop him meddling any further in the series of
decisions Kingfisher has to make over ...