Staff changes at Scottish Leather Group
Scottish Leather Group’s managing director, John Henderson, retired in December after 38 years’ continuous service at the company.
Mr Henderson attended the National Leathersellers’ College, London in 1970-71 and returned to Scotland to join Andrew Muirhead & Son Ltd. Within four years he had been appointed managing director and in 1975 he was appointed to the board of Scottish Tanning Industries Ltd (now Scottish Leather Group Ltd). In 2000 he was appointed group managing director.
Mr Henderson has been succeeded by Iain McFadyen who joined Scottish Leather Group in 1983. In recent years he has been managing director of both NCT Leather Ltd and Bridge of Weir Leather Company Ltd. This change has prompted two senior appointments within Scottish Leather Group: Pat Kennedy has been appointed manufacturing director at Bridge of Weir Leather having previously been operations director for the collagen casings manufacturer Devro plc; and Dr Michael Rogers has been appointed group engineering manager. a new company, SLG Technology Ltd, has been created within the group to provide systems, services and marketing by-products both internally and externally. The company will be headed by Gordon Ross, who will be managing director. Vincent Morris has been appointed IT director and Dr Warren Bowden was appointed environment director.
SLG group chairman, Jonathan Muirhead, said: “The group is fortunate in having had a strong leader in John Henderson for so many years. However, his legacy is a talented and highly capable team of experienced people headed by Iain McFadyen, who has a proven track record of managing tanneries highly successfully. I believe that we are well placed to cope with the difficult challenges that lie ahead”.
Scottish Leather Group is now the largest leather manufacturing company in the UK and its tanneries have a spread of customers in the automotive, furniture, aviation, marine, footwear and leathergoods industries worldwide.
