WOMEN EXECUTIVES START TO CRACK GLASS CEILING IN TOBACCO INDUSTRY
May 1st, 2010
BY ANDREW CAVE
ALISON Cooper's accession to chief executive of Britain's Imperial Tobacco last month (May) put the UK tobacco industry in an unfamiliar position as the 43-year-old mother-of-two became just the fifth female chief executive in the flagship FTSE100 index.
Suddenly, tobacco had a flag-bearer for women's progress to the top echelons of management to rival other unexpected pioneers of female leadership at South African mining giant Anglo American and the Drax Group, owner of Britain's largest power station.
Yet, female talent elsewhere in the tobacco ...
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