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Mainfreight management shuffle

By Phil Boeyen, ShareChat Business News Editor

Friday 21st September 2001

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Transport company Mainfreight (NZSE: MFT) has made several management changes following the retirement of chairman Don Rowlands as head of the board.

Mr Rowlands will remain a Mainfreight director but current MD and founder Bruce Plested will become the company's executive chairman.

Don Braid, currently the company's MD of New Zealand operations, has been appointed Group Managing Director. Mr Braid has been with Mainfreight since 1994.

The company has also appointed Mark Newman as New Zealand manager of the freight forwarding operations and Dennis Basten will take Mr Newman's place as Auckland manager of Lep International.

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