FDF’s Steve Barnes to be new Director General at GroceryAid

GroceryAid are very pleased to announce that Steve Barnes, Commercial and Membership Director at the Food & Drink Federation (FDF), has been appointed the new Director General of GroceryAid and will officially start in September 2016.

Steve has spent his entire career in the grocery industry.

He replaces Gillian Barker who has been Director General for the last 14 years and who retires at the end of November.

Steve started his career in location planning, evaluating sites for Safeway, Presto and Lo-Cost stores then he spent 17 years at IGD (12 of those as Business Director) and the last four years as Commercial and Membership Director at the industry’s largest trade association, the Food and Drink Federation.

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