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TheMoodieReport.com: "UK. Alpha Airports Group has appointed Reg Curtis as Managing Director Alpha Airport Shopping, effective 1 January 2006. He will report to the division?s current Managing Director, Alpha Airports Group Executive Director David King.

King told The Moodie Report that the company?s growth ambitions, especially abroad, made it crucial that it was structured to identify and realise opportunities. ?The more time I spend on international development the less by definition I spend in the UK,? he said.

Curtis has extensive UK retail experience, most recently with the Safeway and Morrisons supermarket groups. He also spent 14 years with Tesco, including a spell developing the retailing giant?s petrol station business. ?I took it from being a service to our customers to a business in its own right,? he said.

Commenting on his new challenge he said: ?Airport shopping is high quality retailing. Alpha is already in good condition, it?s not [requiring] a turnaround situation which makes the challenge more comfortable for me.? He told The Moodie Report he was relishing the opportunity.

Alpha Airport Shopping?s locations include Birmingham International, East Midlands, Exeter, Humberside, Jersey, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Teesside and Robin Hood Doncaster International. "