Mike Clasper, currently a non-executive director of GPG and chairman of Coats, has been appointed chairman of GPG with immediate effect. In addition, Coats’ non-executive director Ruth Anderson has been appointed as a non-executive director of GPG and chair of GPG’s audit, finance and risk committee also.
Mike Clasper is currently chairman of GPG’s subsidiary Coats, the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business. He is a non-executive director at Serco Group and was, until recently, senior independent non-executive director of ITV.
Ruth Anderson is currently non-executive director and chair of the audit committee at both the Ocado Group and Travis Perkins and sits on the board of GPG’s subsidiary. Anderson is a chartered accountant and has spent much of her career at KPMG where she was a member of the UK board for the six years to 2004 and vice chairman for the five years to 2009.
Coats is the world's leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business. One in five garments on the planet is held together using Coats’ thread. Coats produces enough yarn to knit 70 million scarves a year.
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