Promotion boost for four senior Carphone staff

Carphone Warehouse has promoted four senior employees, including a retail sales director who has worked his way up from the shopfloor.

Ed Bembridge joined Tandy in 1992 and worked as a sales consultant. He climbed to store manager and area manager, and survived the takeover of Tandy by Carphone Warehouse in 1999. Most recently he was divisional retail manager for the Midlands, but has been promoted to retail sales director.

James Collins has been appointed direct and customer contact director, while the divisional retail manager for the North, Pat McCahey, is being seconded into Installations. Area managers Phil Keeling and Carl Doogan become divisional retail managers for the Midlands and North respectively.