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- 22 Nov 2001 ( #36 ) - Durban, South Africa
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DURBAN, South Africa -- Barloworld has appointed five new directors to lead its international expansion. Ramon Fernandez-Urrutia, chief executive of the company's capital equipment business in Spain and Portugal, Peter Maybury, chief executive of Barloworld Scientific in the United Kingdom, and Brando Diamond, chief executive of Barloworld Motor in South Africa, have joined the board. Non-executive directors Andrew Smith and Tim Curtis will be replaced by British directors Robert Tomkinson and Graham Ross Russell.
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