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Pittards celebrates career spanning 54 years

07/09/2021
Pittards celebrates career spanning 54 years

Long-serving Pittards employee Diana Turton has retired from the UK leather company after joining in 1967 “just for a week to see if she liked it”.

From wrestling with the telex machine and reels of computer tape to modern day comms, CEO Reg Hankey said: “Diana has been a constant at Pittards throughout a significant and fast-changing period in our history. 

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