Jollyes strengthens leadership team

Anne Galloway (from left), Matt Johnston, and Katherine Peterson will join Jollyes senior leadership team.

The British pet retailer Jollyes announced that it has strengthened its executive team with a number of talented leaders from some of Britain’s leading retailers. This comes weeks after Jollyes launched its first dedicated recruitment and careers website, as it prepares for significant new store growth. The site has already generated over 7 000 applications in its first few weeks, said the company in a press release.

The board has been strengthened with two new hires who will work closely with CEO Joe Wykes: Adam Dury will join Jollyes as its new Chief Operating Officer in January. Dury will join Wykes and Chairman Andy Bond on a strengthened main board alongside its recently appointed Chief Financial Officer Richard Willan.

Jollyes is also strengthening its senior leadership team with three key hires: The first is its new Trading Director Anne Galloway who joins after a 20-plus year leading career in buying and merchandising roles at Tesco. Matt Johnston also joins the retailer as its Chief Technology Officer. He was Head of Data Science at Sainsbury's. Finally, later this year Katherine Paterson will join the company next month as new Chief Marketing Officer. She was customer director for 12 years at Hobbycraft.

After the last store opening in York there are three further openings, in East Kilbride, Leyland and Cardiff, planned for November, and Jollyes expects the pace of stores openings to continue to accelerate in 2025.