What’s the matter at Aggregate Industries at the moment? Why are so many directors leaving?
It was only last month that we posted, Crikey, yet another change at the top of Aggregate Industries’ aggregates division, that the head of AI’s Aggregate Division had left the company – with no news of a replacement:
Barely 12 months into his role, Pablo Libreros – appointed as "new managing director to lead aggregates business into the future" – is off already.
Now it transpires that the South West Regional Director for this division, Tom Longland, has left too.
It was Tom Longland who was touted as one of the company’s "Success Stories" – p.11 of this report:
In 2015, Tom attended Holcim’s Senior Leadership Programme at IMD Business School in Switzerland – an experience he believes every manager or future leader should attend.
It was Tom Longland who has been overseeing the Straitgate project since October 2016.
It was Tom Longland who replaced Laurie Quinn, the previous regional director for AI’s aggregates division in the South West. Mr Quinn was another big fan of quarrying Straitgate Farm, and is also no longer with the company.
Perhaps it's the curse of Straitgate? Over the years we have posted about a number of the key players who have exited stage left; earlier this year, we posted Gosh, another person behind the Straitgate project moves on.
Could the last person to leave the Straitgate show please turn the lights out?
