Dabur appoints Peter Baker as head of H&B stores
New Delhi: FMCG major Dabur India has appointed Peter Gerard Baker as the chief executive officer for its newly-formed retail subsidiary H&B Stores.

Baker was earlier the group head of retail of Lee Cooper group and was responsible for over 450 stores around the world. He will look after the new retail initiatives of Dabur India, including establishment of the new subsidiary and the stores in the country, Dabur said in a release here.

Dabur India plans to invest Rs140 crore by 2010 to establish its presence in the retail market in India with a chain of stores on the Health & Beauty format and is planning to set up 350 retail stores across India in the next five years and would further expand it to over 1,000 stores by the 10th year of operations.
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Tata Tele CEO Darryl Green resigns
New Delhi: Darryl Green, chief executive officer of Tata Teleservices has resigned from the company after a two-year stint.
Company sources said Green had been talking to the management about his exit for quite some time and added that the parting was amicable.

Prior to joining Tata Tele, Green was heading Vodafone's Japan operations.

Green joined CDMA operator Tata Teleservices, in June 2005 and was the only expatriate CEO in the Indian telecom industry. He held the post even before the government allowed foreign executives to head Indian telecom companies in March this year.
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