National Tyre & Wheel Limited announced new appointments amongst its Leadership Team. A new position of Chief Operating Officer has been created and Mr. Colin Skead, formerly CEO of Exclusive Tyre Distributors ("ETD") in Australia, has been appointed to this role. The Chief Operating Officer (COO) role is primarily concerned with managing the operation of the Group with a focus on: how each business unit interacts with the others; and how each business unit interacts with each of the shared services business units. Mr. Skead is responsible for ensuring that these interactions are efficient, cost effective and contributing to improvements in overall NTD profitability in the short term and the maintainability of those profits in the long term. Leaders of the Company's shared services units will report to Mr. Skead. He will also be responsible for the management and successful execution of key business improvement programs (e.g. the S&OP rollout, revitalised marketing activity, its new ERP platform, training, culture alignment and "operational" synergy capture). Mr. Simon Billington, presently the Chief Executive Officer of Exclusive Tyre Distributors in New Zealand, will expand his remit to include day to day management of ETD in both Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Nick Southon, presently General Manager of Government at Tyres4U has been appointed General Manager of the Tyreright retail business. The company announced that Mr. Hugh McMurchy has been appointed Company Secretary, effective from 1 July 2021.