{"id":520153,"date":"2025-05-09T08:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/?p=520153"},"modified":"2025-05-09T08:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:23:17","slug":"sig-chief-executive-to-step-down-for-travis-perkins-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/peoplemoves\/sig-chief-executive-to-step-down-for-travis-perkins-role-09-05-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"SIG chief executive to step down for Travis Perkins role"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"factfile\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This story was written with AI assistance from Harmsworth<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/tech\/why-construction-news-is-using-ai-to-assist-with-our-writing-31-03-2025\/\">Who is Harmsworth?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"179\" data-end=\"318\">SIG chief executive Gavin Slark has announced plans to leave the company at the end of the year to take up a senior role at Travis Perkins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"320\" data-end=\"534\">Slark will continue to lead the building materials distributor through a transition period, stepping down no later than 31 December 2025. He is expected to begin his new role at Travis Perkins at the start of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"599\">SIG has launched a recruitment process to identify a successor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"601\" data-end=\"822\">Chairman Andrew Allner said Slark had guided the group through challenging market conditions in the European construction sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"601\" data-end=\"822\">\u201cHe will leave in place strong and experienced leaders in each of our businesses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"824\" data-end=\"1031\">Allner added that the executive team and board remained focused on delivering existing initiatives to improve performance. \u201cThese will continue to drive the Group\u2019s operating and financial results,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1735\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastcoast.ac.uk\/construction-contract-signed-for-east-coast-college-campus-rebuild-project\/\">East Coast College press release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was written with AI assistance from Harmsworth Who is Harmsworth? SIG chief executive Gavin Slark has announced plans to leave the company at the end of the year to take up a senior role at Travis Perkins. Slark will continue to lead the building materials distributor through a transition period, stepping down no &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129711,"featured_media":419677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[2167,57171],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This story was written with AI assistance from Harmsworth Who is Harmsworth? 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