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Tony Taylor, Gibbs and Dandy – Working in Distribution (#23)

November 18, 2021

Tony Taylor is the managing director of Gibbs and Dandy, a unit of Saint-Gobain, the French multi-national building materials organisation.

He joins Stephen Willson to explore the issues of working on two fronts in a distribution business. The first being making multiple small internal operational improvements to prove their worth to their parent organisation. Secondly to access resources and manage boundaries with parallel distribution businesses and internal material manufacturing units.

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Tony Taylor, Gibbs and Dandy – Working in Distribution (#23)

Published: November 18, 2021

TAGS: Gibbs and Dandy, podcast, Season Three, The Middle, Tony Taylor

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