Coles appoints Jon Church as head of communications
Supermarket giant Coles has appointed former Tesco media director of 10 years Jon Church as head of communications.
Church joined Coles 18 months ago as head of consumer PR and publishing.
His appointment brings together corporate media relations and internal communications, with the consumer PR team. The combined teams will report to Church, who will in turn will report to Robert Hadler, GM of corporate affairs.
Church said: “We work with a small number of agencies across the communications function. Earlier this year we ran a competitive pitch for our main consumer PR agency – which was won by Thrive PR. Apart from seeking some additional local PR support at State level there are no planned changes as a result of my appointment.”
Well…yet another Tesco guy at Coles. Will Coles be changing its name to Tescoles soon?
He’s got some work to do, given Coles’ current beer-gate issues…
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Another job for a former Tesco employee…. hmmm
It became Tesco several years ago. Unless you are from the UK you know nothing
Anyone who’s lived OS knows how woeful Australia’s supermarkets were (and largely still are) compared to many other models.
So no surprise they felt they had t import intelligence. I just hope they take the good, as well as (IMO) the bad from the Tesco model.
Seems so far it’s mostly about screwing the supplier, ramping up own-brand, and competing on price.