Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited announced that Graham Allan is to step down as Group Chief Executive on August 31, 2017 after five years with the Group and be succeeded on the Board by Ian McLeod on September 18, 2017. Ian McLeod has over 30 years of experience in the retail sector. He spent his early career with Asda in the United Kingdom and Germany before joining the Halfords Group in the United Kingdom in 2003 where he was appointed chief executive. Ian became managing director of Coles in Australia in 2008, where he oversaw a significant improvement of the business which outperformed the market during his tenure. Ian joins the Group from Southeastern Grocers, where he has been chief executive since 2015.