School alumnus Justin King named UK’s most powerful marketer
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| Justin King, chief executive of Sainsbury's |
Justin King, chief executive of Sainsbury's, and an alumnus of the BSc in Business Administration at Bath, has been named the UK's most powerful marketer, after rising to the top of Marketing magazine’s annual Power 100 list.
Justin, who graduated from the School of Management in 1983, has had an impressive career leading up to his current success as the boss of Sainsbury’s.
Prior to joining the supermarket chain in March 2004, Justin spent three years at Marks & Spencer as Director of Food where he was instrumental in launching the M&S Simply Food convenience concept. Previously, he spent seven years at Asda where he held roles in Trading and Human Resources before becoming Retail Managing Director for Asda Hypermarkets. From 1990 to 1994, he led the UK launch and development of Haägen Dazs as Managing Director. He has also worked for Pepsi International and Mars Confectionery.
At Sainsbury’s, King has beaten his own growth targets and managed to successfully strike a balance between making the supermarket appeal to consumers through its promotion of quality, price and ethical provenance - its entire own-brand banana, sugar and tea offering has been converted to Fairtrade - and producing sales figures that have impressed the City.
Notes to Editors
The School of Management's internationally renowned and well established BSc (Hons) in Business Administration is designed to prepare students for a variety of business-related roles. A key feature of the programme is the inclusion of two periods of work experience, known as placements, each of six months. They provide a critical means of making sense of the academic content of the degree by linking it to the real world of business.
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General Notes For Editors:
The University of Bath School of Management has consistently achieved both top research and teaching ratings in the UK's Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) assessments. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), the School was rated 5th in the UK for management research.
We are one of a select number of international business schools accredited by EQUIS, the European Foundation for Management Development's quality inspectorate and the Bath MBA has been accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) since 1976. The School is consistently ranked among the top UK business schools by The Times, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times and The Guardian.
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The School of Management has a faculty of around 90 teaching and research staff, including visiting academics, with a support team of around 70 managerial and administrative staff. Research income averages £2 million per annum. There are approximately 2,100 students in total comprising some 200 MBA students, 460 Master’s students, 210 full- and part-time research students, and over 1100 undergraduates following BSc degrees. The School also runs joint undergraduate programmes with Departments in the Faculties of Engineering and Design, Science and Humanities and Social Sciences.
