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BMG lures former Virgin retail executive for top sales role.(News)
Neil Boote has swiftly re-emerged from overseeing troubled WH Smith's entertainment offering by joining BMG as sales director.
The one-time Virgin Retail executive fills the gap that had been temporarily occupied by the major's commercial vice president Richard Story. The previous incumbent, Brian Rose, left to join Universal last year.
The appointment makes Boote--who left Smiths at the end of September only nine months after being brought in to draw up a strategy for the entertainment division--the latest music retailer to make the switch to a record company. In July 2002, Woolworths' then head of entertainment Alan Young became Warner commercial director, while Sony's sales director Nicola Tuer joined the major from Our Price in 1995. Steve Gallant had joined Universal from Asda in 1998, before returning to retail with HMV in 2002.
Boote says that once he decided he wanted to leave Smiths last year he had to decide whether he wanted to continue to "plough the retail furrow" or follow another path. "I've been a marketing director," he says. "I've been head of ...
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