Taking on the chief executive role at Wesfarmers is akin to becoming the president of the People’s Republic of China. You can safely count on a 10-year tenure unless the peasants revolt.
So maybe we shouldn’t pay too much attention to the news that Richard Branson‘s former lieutenant the flashy David Baxby is joining Wesfarmers to run its industrials division.
He has been picked to replace the current boss, Rob Scott, who does not take up the Wesfarmer’s CEO job until November.
That’s a long time for Baxby to wait if he plans to emulate Scott’s leap from the daggy industrials business which includes the Hard Yakka workwear brands …
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