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February, 2008
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SIMON HOLDEN RETURNS TO API LAMINATES
Simon Holden returns to API after a three-year stint as European Sales Agent for the American company Brushfoil LLC where he successfully introduced the company into the European packaging market. Prior to his departure from API, Simon was API’s Tobacco Market Manager, a position he held for five years in a 14-year stint within the business, which started on the factory floor running the machines and progressed to various other positions within the company, leading to a management position within five years.
Simon returned to API in November of 2007 and assumed responsibility once more as Key Account Manager for the tobacco market. API supplies a range of laminated boards for the hinge lid blanks (outer packet) and also for the inner frame board and has been a supplier of laminated boards to the tobacco industry for over 40 years.
API Laminates Ltd., Simon Holden, Key Account Manager. Tel: +44 1625 650560, Fax: +44 8716 6451571 Email: Simon.Holden@apilaminates.com, Web: www.apilaminates.com
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UNIVERSAL CORPORATION’S HARTWELL H. ROPER TO RETIRE AS CFO, REPLACED BY DAVID C. MOORE
Hartwell H. Roper, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Universal Corporation has announced his plans to retire effective August 31, 2008. The Board of Directors has elected David C. Moore, currently Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, to succeed Mr. Roper as Chief Financial Officer as of September 1, 2008.
Mr. Moore has been with Universal since 1978, and began his career in the areas of finance and international operations. He served the company in assignments of increasing complexity and responsibility, which included oversight of the company’s European offices from 1999 to 2005, and became Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Universal Corporation in April 2006.
Mr. Roper joined Universal in 1974. He became Vice President and Controller of the predecessor company in 1985 and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Universal Corporation in 1992.
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Tobacco International - February, 2008

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